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".

List Surrey AdmC	Sutton and Cheam UD/MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	12,182	7,637
Married women (included in Total)	0	3,052
Employers	469	88
Managers	895	221
Operatives	9,611	7,051
Working on own account	1,207	277
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	163	17
1. Agriculture and horticulture	158	17
II. Mining and quarrying	5	0
10. Coal mining	0	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	5	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	39	11
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	1	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	37	6
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	16	4
V. Metal manufacture	24	8
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	580	134
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	0	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	77	7
56. Textile machinery and accessories	2	0
58. Constructional engineering	17	1
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	193	33
70. Electrical machinery	91	11
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	29	35
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	171	47
VII. Vehicles	468	57
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	52	6
81. Motor repairers and garages	390	43
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	24	5
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	143	49
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	112	15
X. Textiles	6	20
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	0
112. Woollen and worsted	0	4
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	1
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	2	4
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	1
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	9	6
XII. Clothing	169	219
140. Tailoring	49	50
141. Dressmaking	7	126
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	88	7
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	175	58
150-162. Food	167	52
163-168. Drink	2	2
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	165	30
170. Timber	22	0
171. Furniture and upholstery	63	21
XV. Paper and printing	129	43
180. Paper and board	1	1
186,189. Printing and publishing	117	39
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	60	58
XVII. Building and contracting	2,301	61
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	764	51
210. Gas	236	6
211. Electricity	328	33
212. Water	200	12
XIX. Transport and communication	1,743	217
220. Railways	134	6
221,222. Road passenger transport	918	25
223. Goods transport by road	139	8
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	27	2
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	512	167
XX. Distributive trades	2,140	2,165
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	158	47
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	84	8
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	26	12
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	810	596
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	169	63
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	806	1,296
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	87	143
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	357	171
XXII. Public administration and defence	836	314
260. National government service	245	92
265. Local government service	591	222
XXIII. Professional services	894	1,612
271. Education	181	431
273. Medical and dental services	457	992
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	853	2,306
280,281. Entertainment and sport	146	141
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	187	662
286. Laundries	41	206
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	28	51
288. Hairdressing and manicure	77	173
290,291. Private domestic service	194	1,013
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	10	9

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