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".

Show England Dep table	West Suffolk AdmC

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	42,733	11,772
Married women (included in Total)	0	3,280
Employers	1,611	177
Managers	1,321	350
Operatives	36,741	10,726
Working on own account	3,060	519
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	11,349	824
1. Agriculture and horticulture	10,924	803
II. Mining and quarrying	89	5
10. Coal mining	0	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	89	5
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	127	26
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	17	3
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	162	28
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	51	15
V. Metal manufacture	44	1
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	1,354	133
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	56	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	36	1
56. Textile machinery and accessories	13	0
58. Constructional engineering	114	8
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	1,049	117
70. Electrical machinery	8	2
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	47	1
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	31	4
VII. Vehicles	1,011	107
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	115	6
81. Motor repairers and garages	767	78
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	99	23
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	140	18
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	60	20
X. Textiles	574	660
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	1	1
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	2	0
112. Woollen and worsted	4	7
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	114	392
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	75	39
123. Textile finishing, etc.	27	6
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	105	112
XII. Clothing	348	729
140. Tailoring	202	448
141. Dressmaking	1	80
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	111	4
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	1,509	272
150-162. Food	1,029	212
163-168. Drink	476	59
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	503	33
170. Timber	322	11
171. Furniture and upholstery	59	6
XV. Paper and printing	178	55
180. Paper and board	2	1
186,189. Printing and publishing	174	45
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	44	158
XVII. Building and contracting	4,680	71
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	515	60
210. Gas	202	23
211. Electricity	277	37
212. Water	36	0
XIX. Transport and communication	2,002	319
220. Railways	579	34
221,222. Road passenger transport	443	20
223. Goods transport by road	385	10
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	13	1
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	531	254
XX. Distributive trades	3,623	2,139
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	623	75
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	214	22
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	253	168
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	1,295	724
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	221	46
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	931	994
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	86	110
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	421	131
XXII. Public administration and defence	6,791	400
260. National government service	5,526	203
265. Local government service	1,265	197
XXIII. Professional services	1,386	1,975
271. Education	377	702
273. Medical and dental services	494	1,051
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	5,683	3,488
280,281. Entertainment and sport	1,037	134
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	730	1,064
286. Laundries	96	298
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	13	45
288. Hairdressing and manicure	88	105
290,291. Private domestic service	788	1,709
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	35	8

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within West Suffolk AdmC:

Rate	Date
Agriculture	1951
Finance & Business Services	1951
Manufacturing	1951
Mining	1951
Public Services	1951

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