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	19,861	8,454
Married women (included in Total)	0	2,927
Employers	597	82
Managers	1,092	216
Operatives	16,561	7,769
Working on own account	1,611	387
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	544	72
1. Agriculture and horticulture	470	71
II. Mining and quarrying	46	0
10. Coal mining	0	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	46	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	1,397	323
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	540	23
24. Cement	6	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	412	159
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	396	147
V. Metal manufacture	70	6
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	2,447	389
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	507	51
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	88	20
56. Textile machinery and accessories	29	2
58. Constructional engineering	189	13
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	1,329	229
70. Electrical machinery	78	1
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	34	3
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	193	70
VII. Vehicles	775	80
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	255	16
81. Motor repairers and garages	492	58
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	11	6
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	675	674
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	95	9
X. Textiles	29	9
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	1	0
112. Woollen and worsted	0	0
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	1	3
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	21	0
XII. Clothing	153	159
140. Tailoring	33	38
141. Dressmaking	4	96
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	79	2
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	592	322
150-162. Food	499	266
163-168. Drink	89	56
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	319	22
170. Timber	209	11
171. Furniture and upholstery	56	6
XV. Paper and printing	184	46
180. Paper and board	2	0
186,189. Printing and publishing	179	45
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	91	67
XVII. Building and contracting	2,719	48
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	1,477	54
210. Gas	990	40
211. Electricity	433	11
212. Water	54	3
XIX. Transport and communication	1,659	157
220. Railways	259	4
221,222. Road passenger transport	473	16
223. Goods transport by road	441	22
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	298	3
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	163	108
XX. Distributive trades	2,568	1,609
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	345	57
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	152	10
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	96	45
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	835	533
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	331	43
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	718	814
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	91	107
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	246	94
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,174	206
260. National government service	436	80
265. Local government service	738	126
XXIII. Professional services	879	1,287
271. Education	353	526
273. Medical and dental services	256	594
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	1,269	2,656
280,281. Entertainment and sport	154	78
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	400	788
286. Laundries	79	368
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	9	20
288. Hairdressing and manicure	72	103
290,291. Private domestic service	402	1,247
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	20	6

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