Vision of Britain | 1911 Census: Occupations Vol 1

1911 Census of England and Wales, Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, giving details of Areas, Houses, Families or separate occupiers, and Population:- Occupations and Industries, Part I, Table 15 A : " Grouped occupations of Males and Females aged 10 years and upwards, in Administrative Counties, County Boroughs, Metropolitan Boroughs, Urban Districts of which the population exceeded 5,000 persons, aggregates of other Urban Districts, and aggregates of Rural Districts; also proportion per 1,000 of unmarried, married, widowed, and of married and widowed women engaged in occupations, and proportion of female domestic servants to separate occupiers or families, 1911 - Males".

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Occupation	Males [1]
Total Occupied or Unoccupied.	28,819
Retired or Unoccupied.	4,630
Engaged in occupations (Orders I-XXII).	24,189
I. General or Local Government.	559
II. Defence of the Country.	305
III. Professional Occupations and their Subordinate Services.	893
IV. 2. Domestic Outdoor Service.	430
IV. 1, 3. Domestic Indoor and Other Service.	285
V. 1, 3, 4. Merchants, Agents, Accountants; Banking, etc.; Insurance.	642
V. 2. Commercial or Business Clerks.	1,109
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: On Railways.	1,098
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: On Roads.	1,066
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: On Seas, Rivers, and Canals.	72
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: Dock Labourers, Wharf Labourers, Coalheavers; Coal--Porters, Labourers.	35
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: Messengers, Porters, Watchmen (not Railway or Government).	587
VI. Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages: Others in Conveyance of Men, Goods, and Messages.	41
VII. Agriculture - On Farms, Woods, and Gardens.	833
IX. 1. Coal and Shale Mine - Workers (including Mine Service).	6
IX. 1. Others working in and about, and in the products of, Mines and Quarries.	18
X. 3. General Engineering, and Machine Making.	1,032
X. 1, 2, 5-8. Iron, Steel, etc. Manufacture; Tools; Dies, etc.; Arms; Misc. Metal Trades.	896
X. 4. Electrical Apparatus.	160
X. 9. Ships and Boats.	15
X. 10. Cycles, Coaches, and other Vehicles.	503
XI. Precious Metals, Jewels, Watches, Instruments, and Games.	166
XII. Building, and Works of Construction.	2,614
XIII. Wood, Furniture, Fittings, and Decorations.	723
XIV. 1. Brick, Plain Tile, Terra-Cotta - Makers.	166
XIV. 1. Earthenware, China, Porcelain, Glass - Manufacture.	76
XV. Chemicals, Explosives, Oil, Grease, Soap, etc.	140
XVI. 1, 2. Skins, Leather, Saddlery, and Harness.	92
XVII. 2. Printers and Lithographers.	726
XVII. 1, 2. Others in Paper, Prints, Books, and Stationery (excluding Stationers, Booksellers, Publishers, Newspaper Agents, and other Dealers).	52
XVIII. 1-5. Textile Manufactures.	20
XVIII. 6. Textile Bleaching, Printing, Dyeing, etc.	6
XIX. 1. Tailors.	335
XIX. 1. Boot, Shoe, Slipper, Patten, Clog - Makers.	203
XIX. 1. Other Workers in Dress.	140
XVIII. 7. Drapers, Linen Drapers, Mercers. XIX. 1. Dealers in Dress.	363
XX. Food, Tobacco, Drink, and Lodging.	5,800
XXII. 5. General Labourers; Factory Labourers (undefined).	709
All Other Occupations.	1,273

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