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	24,676	12,141
Married women (included in Total)	0	3,869
Employers	612	100
Managers	1,254	320
Operatives	21,384	11,338
Working on own account	1,426	383
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	374	37
1. Agriculture and horticulture	357	37
II. Mining and quarrying	2	1
10. Coal mining	0	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	2	1
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	189	16
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	69	3
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	150	59
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	33	6
V. Metal manufacture	443	97
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	1,088	189
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	9	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	27	1
56. Textile machinery and accessories	1	0
58. Constructional engineering	96	4
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	752	154
70. Electrical machinery	34	7
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	47	5
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	122	18
VII. Vehicles	1,094	75
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	82	6
81. Motor repairers and garages	752	66
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	13	3
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	191	29
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	134	38
X. Textiles	34	22
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	2	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	1	1
112. Woollen and worsted	2	1
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	3	12
123. Textile finishing, etc.	2	1
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	110	98
XII. Clothing	349	654
140. Tailoring	202	412
141. Dressmaking	2	72
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	122	14
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	785	210
150-162. Food	505	136
163-168. Drink	271	73
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	483	137
170. Timber	95	8
171. Furniture and upholstery	213	58
XV. Paper and printing	694	306
180. Paper and board	56	7
186,189. Printing and publishing	635	287
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	69	16
XVII. Building and contracting	2,915	50
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	678	118
210. Gas	352	35
211. Electricity	287	79
212. Water	39	4
XIX. Transport and communication	4,458	657
220. Railways	2,165	105
221,222. Road passenger transport	735	128
223. Goods transport by road	400	26
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	23	2
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	1,035	363
XX. Distributive trades	3,733	2,665
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	438	79
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	179	75
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	346	71
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	877	582
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	595	179
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	1,202	1,594
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	96	85
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	700	436
XXII. Public administration and defence	2,936	825
260. National government service	1,553	478
265. Local government service	1,383	347
XXIII. Professional services	1,924	2,756
271. Education	624	899
273. Medical and dental services	674	1,536
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	1,128	2,634
280,281. Entertainment and sport	181	128
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	449	1,120
286. Laundries	125	346
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	9	38
288. Hairdressing and manicure	88	147
290,291. Private domestic service	126	727
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	15	16

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