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	12,370	7,053
Married women (included in Total)	0	3,350
Employers	266	30
Managers	588	154
Operatives	10,973	6,653
Working on own account	543	216
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	156	18
1. Agriculture and horticulture	150	18
II. Mining and quarrying	15	0
10. Coal mining	7	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	8	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	18	1
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	0	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	35	13
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	33	13
V. Metal manufacture	479	6
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	366	73
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	0	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	26	4
56. Textile machinery and accessories	89	14
58. Constructional engineering	12	3
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	223	49
70. Electrical machinery	2	0
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	6	0
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	8	3
VII. Vehicles	228	30
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	35	2
81. Motor repairers and garages	182	24
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	5	4
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	513	68
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	118	20
X. Textiles	5,118	3,751
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	3	8
112. Woollen and worsted	395	174
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	1
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	1	1
123. Textile finishing, etc.	1	1
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	3	0
XII. Clothing	54	33
140. Tailoring	13	13
141. Dressmaking	0	12
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	40	2
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	441	93
150-162. Food	407	81
163-168. Drink	31	12
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	37	7
170. Timber	9	0
171. Furniture and upholstery	19	6
XV. Paper and printing	117	75
180. Paper and board	27	26
186,189. Printing and publishing	89	48
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	17	1
XVII. Building and contracting	972	35
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	318	32
210. Gas	104	13
211. Electricity	203	19
212. Water	11	0
XIX. Transport and communication	798	125
220. Railways	269	13
221,222. Road passenger transport	255	40
223. Goods transport by road	88	3
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	1	0
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	174	67
XX. Distributive trades	1,117	971
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	187	46
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	49	8
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	45	33
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	368	281
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	93	34
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	346	518
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	29	51
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	152	50
XXII. Public administration and defence	558	159
260. National government service	212	103
265. Local government service	346	56
XXIII. Professional services	351	625
271. Education	125	233
273. Medical and dental services	105	328
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	380	864
280,281. Entertainment and sport	67	63
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	141	464
286. Laundries	19	49
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	3	17
288. Hairdressing and manicure	29	50
290,291. Private domestic service	57	201
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	9	3

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