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	12,598	6,423
Married women (included in Total)	0	2,208
Employers	346	43
Managers	618	124
Operatives	10,882	6,062
Working on own account	752	194
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	667	110
1. Agriculture and horticulture	609	91
II. Mining and quarrying	1	1
10. Coal mining	0	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1	1
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	39	28
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	0	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	57	35
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	32	26
V. Metal manufacture	13	0
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	530	268
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	23	9
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	13	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	1	1
58. Constructional engineering	11	1
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	197	34
70. Electrical machinery	87	50
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	72	24
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	126	149
VII. Vehicles	437	188
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	115	7
81. Motor repairers and garages	255	30
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	53	150
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	109	13
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	41	12
X. Textiles	666	398
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	3	0
112. Woollen and worsted	1	1
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	0	0
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	4	3
XII. Clothing	83	91
140. Tailoring	14	9
141. Dressmaking	0	35
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	66	5
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	136	28
150-162. Food	135	27
163-168. Drink	0	1
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	296	30
170. Timber	62	2
171. Furniture and upholstery	93	19
XV. Paper and printing	249	69
180. Paper and board	1	0
186,189. Printing and publishing	246	69
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	339	159
XVII. Building and contracting	1,511	59
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	428	34
210. Gas	122	10
211. Electricity	273	18
212. Water	33	6
XIX. Transport and communication	1,542	174
220. Railways	927	58
221,222. Road passenger transport	197	9
223. Goods transport by road	70	8
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	48	6
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	290	92
XX. Distributive trades	1,467	1,015
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	178	24
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	107	7
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	65	23
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	538	369
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	114	64
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	410	466
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	55	62
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	201	81
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,990	218
260. National government service	1,518	119
265. Local government service	472	99
XXIII. Professional services	788	1,307
271. Education	198	394
273. Medical and dental services	423	795
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	983	2,075
280,281. Entertainment and sport	113	96
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	163	457
286. Laundries	52	161
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	5	20
288. Hairdressing and manicure	44	66
290,291. Private domestic service	465	1,112
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	21	27

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