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	10,128	4,368
Married women (included in Total)	0	1,609
Employers	304	43
Managers	484	97
Operatives	8,570	4,067
Working on own account	770	161
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	137	35
1. Agriculture and horticulture	125	35
II. Mining and quarrying	2	0
10. Coal mining	1	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	74	29
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	0	1
24. Cement	9	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	30	1
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	23	1
V. Metal manufacture	19	2
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	572	36
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	139	9
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	3	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	38	1
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	353	19
70. Electrical machinery	4	1
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	12	1
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	23	5
VII. Vehicles	148	27
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	13	0
81. Motor repairers and garages	115	10
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	20	17
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	427	202
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	19	0
X. Textiles	2	2
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	0
112. Woollen and worsted	0	1
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	0	0
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	3	4
XII. Clothing	57	58
140. Tailoring	15	28
141. Dressmaking	1	24
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	39	4
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	233	120
150-162. Food	151	56
163-168. Drink	82	64
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	80	7
170. Timber	37	1
171. Furniture and upholstery	20	3
XV. Paper and printing	969	168
180. Paper and board	886	134
186,189. Printing and publishing	77	23
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	9	5
XVII. Building and contracting	1,225	45
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	341	22
210. Gas	138	3
211. Electricity	181	15
212. Water	22	4
XIX. Transport and communication	1,743	105
220. Railways	177	6
221,222. Road passenger transport	171	13
223. Goods transport by road	101	6
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	1,146	13
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	133	60
XX. Distributive trades	1,479	1,418
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	160	45
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	94	13
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	70	28
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	511	427
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	80	34
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	508	793
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	56	78
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	204	73
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,410	148
260. National government service	995	64
265. Local government service	415	84
XXIII. Professional services	451	744
271. Education	226	307
273. Medical and dental services	127	353
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	477	1,115
280,281. Entertainment and sport	73	65
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	166	417
286. Laundries	41	172
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	0	21
288. Hairdressing and manicure	40	61
290,291. Private domestic service	19	289
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	17	2

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