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	10,290	5,931
Married women (included in Total)	0	2,603
Employers	360	71
Managers	490	112
Operatives	8,551	5,552
Working on own account	889	196
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	650	95
1. Agriculture and horticulture	639	95
II. Mining and quarrying	6	0
10. Coal mining	0	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	6	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	72	6
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	42	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	334	63
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	15	3
V. Metal manufacture	2	0
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	594	606
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	2	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	5	4
56. Textile machinery and accessories	1	0
58. Constructional engineering	4	2
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	76	19
70. Electrical machinery	77	29
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	29	10
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	400	542
VII. Vehicles	465	230
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	6	0
81. Motor repairers and garages	189	22
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	238	207
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	54	8
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	43	15
X. Textiles	21	27
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	1	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	2
112. Woollen and worsted	8	6
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	3	12
123. Textile finishing, etc.	1	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	5	1
XII. Clothing	54	59
140. Tailoring	12	12
141. Dressmaking	2	26
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	40	2
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	367	167
150-162. Food	354	166
163-168. Drink	11	1
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	102	6
170. Timber	16	2
171. Furniture and upholstery	11	2
XV. Paper and printing	265	106
180. Paper and board	152	71
186,189. Printing and publishing	97	34
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	145	35
XVII. Building and contracting	1,555	47
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	425	72
210. Gas	83	15
211. Electricity	303	57
212. Water	39	0
XIX. Transport and communication	924	193
220. Railways	593	58
221,222. Road passenger transport	37	4
223. Goods transport by road	54	1
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	36	1
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	196	127
XX. Distributive trades	1,222	884
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	147	35
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	54	11
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	16	2
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	576	348
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	38	16
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	341	390
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	50	82
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	143	58
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,372	256
260. National government service	951	177
265. Local government service	421	79
XXIII. Professional services	954	1,761
271. Education	148	327
273. Medical and dental services	672	1,336
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	500	1,228
280,281. Entertainment and sport	58	57
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	126	427
286. Laundries	41	134
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	4	20
288. Hairdressing and manicure	32	61
290,291. Private domestic service	168	499
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	16	8

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