Vision of Britain | 1951 Census: Industry

1951 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables (Laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 4 (1), Census Act, 1920), Table 3 : " Industries (Orders and Selected Units) and Status Aggregates. Occupied Males and Females aged 15 and over for Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT".

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INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	23,452	6,776
Married women (included in Total)	0	2,095
Employers	375	89
Managers	624	144
Operatives	21,718	6,162
Working on own account	735	381
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	194	13
1. Agriculture and horticulture	190	13
II. Mining and quarrying	38	1
10. Coal mining	2	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	36	1
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	69	2
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	45	1
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	35	3
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	24	3
V. Metal manufacture	2,528	196
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	10,387	625
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	10,120	614
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	3	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	1	0
58. Constructional engineering	72	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	172	8
70. Electrical machinery	2	1
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	10	0
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	7	2
VII. Vehicles	337	21
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	42	1
81. Motor repairers and garages	184	19
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	3	0
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	150	6
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	22	1
X. Textiles	134	190
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	1
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	2	4
112. Woollen and worsted	101	160
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	1
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	0	1
123. Textile finishing, etc.	4	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	10	3
XII. Clothing	114	242
140. Tailoring	30	119
141. Dressmaking	0	52
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	52	8
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	359	337
150-162. Food	269	256
163-168. Drink	90	81
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	167	26
170. Timber	16	0
171. Furniture and upholstery	103	21
XV. Paper and printing	447	220
180. Paper and board	307	175
186,189. Printing and publishing	139	44
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	70	2
XVII. Building and contracting	1,766	41
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	581	57
210. Gas	193	13
211. Electricity	363	43
212. Water	25	1
XIX. Transport and communication	2,114	270
220. Railways	1,010	64
221,222. Road passenger transport	273	97
223. Goods transport by road	95	4
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	537	18
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	175	81
XX. Distributive trades	1,565	1,704
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	130	24
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	81	6
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	118	47
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	553	588
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	79	35
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	521	864
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	83	140
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	238	89
XXII. Public administration and defence	977	264
260. National government service	239	104
265. Local government service	738	160
XXIII. Professional services	536	939
271. Education	210	408
273. Medical and dental services	178	465
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	596	1,514
280,281. Entertainment and sport	149	148
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	189	621
286. Laundries	97	356
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	13	52
288. Hairdressing and manicure	44	72
290,291. Private domestic service	8	243
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	18	10

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