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	12,987,351	5,911,736
Married women (included in Total)	0	2,398,914
Employers	348,747	48,238
Managers	600,393	128,328
Operatives	11,258,580	5,519,691
Working on own account	779,631	215,479
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	787,692	89,603
1. Agriculture and horticulture	751,604	88,353
II. Mining and quarrying	598,887	10,364
10. Coal mining	546,809	7,347
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	52,078	3,017
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	211,195	69,355
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	59,681	5,092
24. Cement	11,614	792
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	272,597	104,066
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	167,355	46,094
V. Metal manufacture	377,500	50,399
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	1,210,652	315,563
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	186,528	6,935
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	70,464	14,412
56. Textile machinery and accessories	58,044	8,898
58. Constructional engineering	61,655	4,664
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	496,456	93,164
70. Electrical machinery	106,043	35,508
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	70,882	57,968
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	160,580	94,014
VII. Vehicles	787,074	112,341
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	249,155	37,815
81. Motor repairers and garages	202,768	19,484
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	209,009	46,991
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	283,432	143,076
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	95,486	42,661
X. Textiles	382,547	469,844
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	66,221	103,962
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	42,307	79,842
112. Woollen and worsted	85,911	93,127
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	45,888	38,234
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	32,011	76,002
123. Textile finishing, etc.	57,820	23,588
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	45,636	25,110
XII. Clothing	220,043	435,662
140. Tailoring	86,880	176,472
141. Dressmaking	9,975	102,157
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	97,918	60,237
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	390,519	231,426
150-162. Food	283,054	183,888
163-168. Drink	88,408	25,899
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	231,154	46,314
170. Timber	51,924	6,311
171. Furniture and upholstery	106,284	27,164
XV. Paper and printing	297,212	158,097
180. Paper and board	48,176	14,353
186,189. Printing and publishing	210,874	92,086
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	139,954	93,845
XVII. Building and contracting	1,135,548	32,590
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	286,289	27,627
210. Gas	117,610	9,950
211. Electricity	139,423	16,292
212. Water	29,256	1,385
XIX. Transport and communication	1,254,004	178,406
220. Railways	397,648	29,802
221,222. Road passenger transport	239,203	29,797
223. Goods transport by road	155,431	10,058
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	208,399	8,665
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	202,512	84,009
XX. Distributive trades	1,314,777	971,800
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	126,547	25,539
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	93,910	21,935
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	107,756	36,552
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	378,485	277,281
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	179,318	73,415
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	386,786	483,492
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	41,975	53,586
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	253,358	135,462
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,261,034	236,613
260. National government service	830,369	154,263
265. Local government service	430,665	82,350
XXIII. Professional services	538,161	751,556
271. Education	164,451	268,506
273. Medical and dental services	169,721	363,980
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	602,215	1,174,436
280,281. Entertainment and sport	102,415	85,858
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	233,639	535,096
286. Laundries	27,084	88,088
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	11,231	25,858
288. Hairdressing and manicure	33,006	45,303
290,291. Private domestic service	91,251	344,181
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	10,385	5,520

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within England Dep:

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

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