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	8,032	5,132
Married women (included in Total)	0	2,555
Employers	321	36
Managers	604	129
Operatives	6,103	4,650
Working on own account	1,004	317
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	9	2
1. Agriculture and horticulture	7	2
II. Mining and quarrying	1	0
10. Coal mining	1	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	0	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	70	14
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	0	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	86	59
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	59	33
V. Metal manufacture	19	6
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	239	42
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	5	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	26	3
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	12	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	129	15
70. Electrical machinery	9	0
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	39	13
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	19	11
VII. Vehicles	184	19
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	37	5
81. Motor repairers and garages	115	7
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	2	0
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	127	47
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	288	68
X. Textiles	17	37
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	1	2
112. Woollen and worsted	0	0
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	1
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	2	5
123. Textile finishing, etc.	2	3
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	100	84
XII. Clothing	596	1,588
140. Tailoring	371	508
141. Dressmaking	92	590
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	48	18
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	233	111
150-162. Food	208	106
163-168. Drink	24	3
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	423	56
170. Timber	95	7
171. Furniture and upholstery	242	46
XV. Paper and printing	318	403
180. Paper and board	3	3
186,189. Printing and publishing	261	254
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	188	137
XVII. Building and contracting	1,252	21
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	235	10
210. Gas	3	0
211. Electricity	76	10
212. Water	156	0
XIX. Transport and communication	546	60
220. Railways	88	17
221,222. Road passenger transport	188	21
223. Goods transport by road	121	6
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	13	0
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	121	14
XX. Distributive trades	1,291	639
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	81	25
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	72	18
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	91	22
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	402	227
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	182	58
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	387	241
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	76	48
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	201	58
XXII. Public administration and defence	691	246
260. National government service	125	122
265. Local government service	566	124
XXIII. Professional services	463	531
271. Education	112	168
273. Medical and dental services	80	229
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	447	893
280,281. Entertainment and sport	83	43
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	189	420
286. Laundries	6	28
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	9	23
288. Hairdressing and manicure	45	39
290,291. Private domestic service	11	259
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	8	1

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