Vision of Britain | 1911 Census: Occupations Vol 1

1911 Census of England and Wales, Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, giving details of Areas, Houses, Families or separate occupiers, and Population:- Occupations and Industries, Part I, Table 15 A : " Grouped occupations of Males and Females aged 10 years and upwards, in Administrative Counties, County Boroughs, Metropolitan Boroughs, Urban Districts of which the population exceeded 5,000 persons, aggregates of other Urban Districts, and aggregates of Rural Districts; also proportion per 1,000 of unmarried, married, widowed, and of married and widowed women engaged in occupations, and proportion of female domestic servants to separate occupiers or families, 1911 - Males".

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Occupation	Males [1]
Total Occupied or Unoccupied.	41,689
Retired or Unoccupied.	6,867
Engaged in occupations (Orders I-XXII).	34,822
I. General or Local Government.	636
II. Defence of the Country.	84
III. Professional Occupations and their Subordinate Services.	456
IV. 2. Domestic Outdoor Service.	25
IV. 1, 3. Domestic Indoor and Other Service.	605
V. 1, 3, 4. Merchants, Agents, Accountants; Banking, etc.; Insurance.	263
V. 2. Commercial or Business Clerks.	765
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: On Railways.	358
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: On Roads.	3,645
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: On Seas, Rivers, and Canals.	49
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: Dock Labourers, Wharf Labourers, Coalheavers; Coal--Porters, Labourers.	420
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: Messengers, Porters, Watchmen (not Railway or Government).	2,178
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: Others in Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages.	103
VII. Agriculture - On Farms, Woods, and Gardens.	25
IX. 1. Coal and Shale Mine - Workers (including Mine Service).	0
IX. 1. Others working in and about, and in the products of, Mines and Quarries.	29
X. 3. General Engineering, and Machine Making.	828
X. 1, 2, 5-8. Iron, Steel, etc. Manufacture; Tools; Dies, etc.; Arms; Misc. Metal Trades.	829
X. 4. Electrical Apparatus.	239
X. 9. Ships and Boats.	5
X. 10. Cycles, Coaches, and other Vehicles.	255
XI. Precious Metals, Jewels, Watches, Instruments, and Games.	723
XII. Building, and Works of Construction.	2,333
XIII. Wood, Furniture, Fittings, and Decorations.	5,922
XIV. 1. Brick, Plain Tile, Terra-Cotta - Makers.	4
XIV. 1. Earthenware, China, Porcelain, Glass - Manufacture.	346
XV. Chemicals, Explosives, Oil, Grease, Soap, etc.	423
XVI. 1, 2. Skins, Leather, Saddlery, and Harness.	676
XVII. 2. Printers and Lithographers.	1,651
XVII. 1, 2. Others in Paper, Prints, Books, and Stationery (excluding Stationers, Booksellers, Publishers, Newspaper Agents, and other Dealers).	913
XVIII. 1-5. Textile Manufactures.	137
XVIII. 6. Textile Bleaching, Printing, Dyeing, etc.	86
XIX. 1. Tailors.	524
XIX. 1. Boot, Shoe, Slipper, Patten, Clog - Makers.	909
XIX. 1. Other Workers in Dress.	949
XVIII. 7. Drapers, Linen Drapers, Mercers. XIX. 1. Dealers in Dress.	544
XX. Food, Tobacco, Drink, and Lodging.	3,225
XXII. 5. General Labourers; Factory Labourers (undefined).	944
All Other Occupations.	2,716

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