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	12,809	7,885
Married women (included in Total)	0	3,481
Employers	456	81
Managers	784	244
Operatives	10,033	7,093
Working on own account	1,536	467
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	65	8
1. Agriculture and horticulture	53	7
II. Mining and quarrying	3	0
10. Coal mining	3	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	0	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	31	5
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	2	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	26	16
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	10	6
V. Metal manufacture	34	8
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	463	88
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	2	1
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	12	2
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	21	1
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	318	49
70. Electrical machinery	5	0
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	44	10
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	61	25
VII. Vehicles	442	42
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	63	7
81. Motor repairers and garages	299	24
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	14	10
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	207	83
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	271	59
X. Textiles	9	18
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	1
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	2	0
112. Woollen and worsted	1	2
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	1	6
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	41	40
XII. Clothing	202	446
140. Tailoring	95	93
141. Dressmaking	18	279
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	65	8
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	222	107
150-162. Food	166	99
163-168. Drink	8	5
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	220	30
170. Timber	7	1
171. Furniture and upholstery	104	24
XV. Paper and printing	293	129
180. Paper and board	11	8
186,189. Printing and publishing	264	88
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	219	129
XVII. Building and contracting	2,246	84
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	586	60
210. Gas	239	22
211. Electricity	149	38
212. Water	198	0
XIX. Transport and communication	2,323	528
220. Railways	780	42
221,222. Road passenger transport	184	9
223. Goods transport by road	616	51
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	32	0
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	691	419
XX. Distributive trades	1,838	1,374
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	198	40
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	44	14
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	48	14
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	672	547
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	199	61
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	566	574
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	111	124
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	308	140
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,051	282
260. National government service	125	83
265. Local government service	926	199
XXIII. Professional services	869	1,605
271. Education	321	673
273. Medical and dental services	230	736
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	827	2,596
280,281. Entertainment and sport	181	123
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	198	775
286. Laundries	70	208
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	14	42
288. Hairdressing and manicure	69	88
290,291. Private domestic service	108	1,257
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	13	8

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