1931 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables, Table 3 : " Industries (condensed list) of Males and Females (exclusive of persons out of work)".

Show England Dep table	Staffordshire AdmC	Amblecote UD Audley UD Biddulph UD Bilston UD/MB Blore Heath RD Brierley Hill UD Brownhills UD Burton upon Trent CB/MB Cannock RD Cannock UD Cheadle RD Civil Parishes of Blymhill and Weston under Lizard RD Coseley UD Darlaston UD Dudley CB/MB Gnosall RD Kidsgrove UD Kingswinford RD Leek RD Leek UD Lichfield RD Lichfield MB Mayfield RD Newcastle under Lyme RD Newcastle under Lyme MB Quarry Bank UD Rowley Regis UD/MB Rugeley UD Sedgley UD Seisdon RD Short Heath UD Smethwick MB/UD/CB Stafford RD Stafford MB Stoke on Trent CB/MB Stone UD Stone RD Tamworth MB Tamworth RD Tettenhall UD Tipton MB/UD Tutbury RD Uttoxeter UD Uttoxeter RD Walsall RD Walsall CB/MB Wednesbury MB Wednesfield UD West Bromwich CB/MB Willenhall UD Wolstanton United UD Wolverhampton CB/MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
Total in Industries (excluding persons out of work).	410,618	179,367
Out of work (not included below).	72,288	23,413
I.--Fishing.	3	0
II.--Agriculture.	19,049	1,226
III.--Mining and Quarrying, and Treatment of Non-Metalliferous Mining and Quarry Products.      1. Mining and Quarrying.	57,525	219
2. Treatment of Non-Metalliferous Mine and Quarry Products (excluding Gas Works).	2,169	154
IV.--Manufacture of Bricks, Pottery, Glass, etc.	34,349	35,872
V.--Manufacture of Chemicals, Dyes, Explosives, Paints, Oils, Grease.      1, 2. Chemicals and Explosives.	1,288	493
3. White Lead, Paints, and Varnish.	1,066	317
4, 5. Greases, Glue, &c.	407	226
VI.--Manufacture of Metals, Machines, Implements, Conveyances, Jewellery, Watches.      1. Smelting Converting, Refining, and Rolling of Iron and Steel.	11,752	259
2. Extracting and Refining of Other Metals and Alloys.	734	55
3. Founding and Other Secondary Processes in Metal Working.	27,865	4,039
4. Engineering (not Marine or Electrical).	11,458	1,192
5. Electrical Installations, Cables, and Apparatus.	6,638	3,381
6. Construction and Repair of Vehicles.	16,275	3,492
7. Ship Building and Repairing and Marine Engineering.	127	4
8. Cutlery and Small Tools (not Machine Tools).	1,888	531
9. Other Metal Industries (not Precious Metals, Jewellery, or Plate).	32,789	18,221
10. Precious Metals, Jewellery, Plate.	725	804
VII.--Manufacture of Textiles and Textile Goods (not Dress); Cellulose.      1. Cotton.	309	1,445
2. Wool, Worsted, and Shoddy.	41	49
3. Silk, Natural and Artificial.	2,797	4,379
4. Flax, Hemp, Jute.	3	2
5, 6. Mixed Fibres and Miscellaneous Products.	1,000	3,382
7. Textile Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching, Calendering, Finishing.	1,455	494
VIII.--Preparation of Skins and Leather, and Manufacture of Goods of Leather and Leather Substitute (not Clothing or Footwear).      1. Furs, Skins, Leather.	795	117
2. Saddlery, Harness, Bags, Trunks, and Other Goods of Leather and Leather Substitute (not Clothing or Footwear).	1,313	2,831
IX.--Manufacture of Clothing (not Knitted).	6,081	11,601
X.--Manufacture of Food, Drink, Tobacco.      1. Food.	6,677	2,821
2. Drink.	7,953	814
3. Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, Snuff.	29	30
XI.--Wood Working; Manufacture of Cane and Basket Ware, Furniture, Fittings (not elsewhere enumerated).      1. Wood Working and Basket Ware.	2,654	489
2. Furniture (not Metal or Basket); Fittings.	1,521	417
XII.--Paper Making; Manufacture of Stationery and Stationery Requisites; Printing, Bookbinding, and Photography.	4,588	3,647
XIII.-- Building, Decorating, Stone and Slate Gutting and Dressing, and Contracting.	23,888	317
XIV.--Other Manufacturing Industries.      1. Rubber.	2,117	925
2. Musical Instruments.	171	34
3. Other Manufacturing Industries.	881	970
XV.--Gas, Water, Electricity.      510-6. Gas Works Service.	3,039	85
518-21. Water Works Service.	840	7
523-9. Electricity Supply Service.	2,216	119
XVI.--Transport and Communication.      1. Railways.	14,131	342
2. Road.	11,569	540
3-7. Water, Air and Other Transport and Communication.	949	98
XVII.--Commerce and Finance.      600-670. Distributive Trades.	39,581	21,593
680-699. Other Commerce and Finance.	5,296	1,389
XVIII.--Public Administration and Defence.      1. Defence.	1,713	47
2. Central Civil Government (British and Imperial).	3,755	1,487
3. Local Government.	16,789	9,150
XIX.--Professions.	5,433	5,024
XX.--Entertainments and Sport.	2,212	1,115
XXI.--Personal Service (including Hotels and Catering, but excluding Government and Local Authority).	12,134	32,938
XXII.--Other Industries or Industry not stated.	581	184

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

Rate	Date
Agriculture	1931
Finance & Business Services	1931
Manufacturing	1931
Mining	1931
Public Services	1931

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The areal classification is by each person's area of enumeration and not necessarily, therefore, by area of business.

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.

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