Vision of Britain | 1951 Census: Occupations

1951 Census of England and Wales, Occupation Tables (Laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 4 (1), Census Act, 1920), Table 21 : " Selected Occupations with Status Aggregates - abridged analysis for Con divisions and sub-divisions, Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT".

Show East Sussex AdmC table	Hastings MB/CB

Occupation	Persons [1]
MALES: Total Population.	27,404
Total Occupied Population aged 15 and over.	20,963
Total occupied (orders I-XXVII).	16,433
Retired.	4,530
Employers.	722
Managers.	825
Operatives.	12,405
Self-employed.	1,706
Unemployed.	775
I. Fishermen.	74
II. Agricultural, etc. occupations.	759
III. Mining and quarring occupations.	144
IV. Workers in ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	22
V. Coal gas, etc. makers, workers in chemicals.	28
VI. Workers in metal manufacture, engineering.	1,485
VII. Textile workers.	5
VIII. Leather workers, fur dressers.	88
IX. Makers of textile goods and articles of dress.	86
X. Makers of foods, drinks and tobacco.	228
XI. Workers wood, cane and cork.	482
XII. Makers of, workers in, paper; printers.	286
XIII. Makers of products (n.e.s.).	81
XIV. Workers in building and contracting.	1,637
XV. Painters and decorators.	649
XVI. Administrators, directors, managers (n.e.s.).	431
XVII. Persons employed in transport, etc.	1,977
XVIII. Commercial, finance, etc. (exc. Clerical).	2,562
XIX. Professional and technical (exc. Clerical).	897
XX. Persons employed in defence services.	435
XXI. Persons engaged in entertainments and sport.	167
XXII. Persons engaged in personal service.	1,483
XXIII. Clerks, typists, etc.	1,215
XXIV. Warehousemen, storekeepers, packers, etc.	244
XXV. Stationary engine drivers, stokers, etc.	131
XXVI. Workers in unskilled occupations (n.e.s.).	629
XXVII. Other and undefined workers.	208
XXVIII. Retired and not gainfully occupied.	4,530
FEMALES: Total Population.	38,118
Total Occupied Population aged 15 and over.	31,744
Total occupied (orders I-XXVII).	8,997
Retired.	22,747
Employers.	147
Managers.	288
Operatives.	7,459
Self-employed.	735
Unemployed.	368
II. Agricultural, etc. occupations.	56
VI. Workers in metal manufacture, engineering.	50
VII. Textile workers.	5
VIII. Leather workers, fur dressers.	5
IX. Makers of textile goods and articles of dress.	227
X. Makers of foods, drinks and tobacco.	27
XII. Makers of, workers in, paper; printers.	62
XVI. Administrators, directors, mangeresses.	55
XVII. Persons employed in transport, etc.	151
XVIII. Commercial, finance, etc.(exc. Clerical).	1,534
XIX. Professional and technical (exc. clerical).	1,313
XXII. Persons engaged in personal service.	3,689
XXIII. Clerks, typists, etc.	1,523
XXIV. Warehousewomen, storekeepers, packers, etc.	42
XXVI. Workers in unskilled occupations (n.e.s.).	113
I,III-V,XI,XIII-XV,XX,XXI,XXV,XXVII Others.	145

Click on the triangles for all about a particular number.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.