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	28,347	13,675
Married women (included in Total)	0	6,634
Employers	363	50
Managers	1,524	283
Operatives	25,515	12,865
Working on own account	945	477
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	68	10
1. Agriculture and horticulture	67	9
II. Mining and quarrying	1,272	19
10. Coal mining	1,268	19
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	4	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	305	42
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	107	8
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	603	145
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	393	69
V. Metal manufacture	6,946	1,264
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	3,579	1,535
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	3	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	153	88
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	1,150	143
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	1,549	841
70. Electrical machinery	195	84
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	12	7
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	517	372
VII. Vehicles	1,975	421
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	546	61
81. Motor repairers and garages	339	34
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	1,009	317
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	3,440	2,756
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	17	16
X. Textiles	82	56
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	0
112. Woollen and worsted	2	1
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	1
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	2	1
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	9	8
XII. Clothing	97	98
140. Tailoring	29	61
141. Dressmaking	0	15
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	65	13
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	435	362
150-162. Food	284	267
163-168. Drink	149	95
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	463	116
170. Timber	15	1
171. Furniture and upholstery	304	73
XV. Paper and printing	793	1,491
180. Paper and board	7	7
186,189. Printing and publishing	760	1,376
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	126	99
XVII. Building and contracting	1,543	48
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	611	58
210. Gas	422	42
211. Electricity	183	16
212. Water	6	0
XIX. Transport and communication	1,583	234
220. Railways	735	42
221,222. Road passenger transport	361	132
223. Goods transport by road	354	19
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	21	2
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	101	34
XX. Distributive trades	2,013	1,835
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	261	62
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	433	111
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	72	29
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	617	696
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	83	52
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	497	794
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	50	91
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	249	107
XXII. Public administration and defence	861	312
260. National government service	250	158
265. Local government service	611	154
XXIII. Professional services	594	1,062
271. Education	254	414
273. Medical and dental services	190	556
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	666	1,571
280,281. Entertainment and sport	144	114
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	295	939
286. Laundries	58	224
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	5	16
288. Hairdressing and manicure	51	74
290,291. Private domestic service	13	181
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	17	10

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