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	Cumberland AdmC	Alston With Garrigill RD Border RD Carlisle MB/CB Cockermouth RD Cockermouth UD Ennerdale RD Keswick UD Maryport UD Millom RD Penrith RD Penrith UD Whitehaven MB Wigton RD Workington MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	92,357	33,382
Married women (included in Total)	0	10,656
Employers	4,210	503
Managers	3,049	907
Operatives	78,479	30,300
Working on own account	6,619	1,672
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	12,264	1,627
1. Agriculture and horticulture	11,677	1,608
II. Mining and quarrying	8,451	240
10. Coal mining	6,458	227
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1,993	13
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	793	41
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	228	13
24. Cement	8	1
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	3,161	286
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	2,730	189
V. Metal manufacture	4,456	298
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	3,844	447
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	52	2
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	6	4
56. Textile machinery and accessories	65	23
58. Constructional engineering	806	15
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	2,560	251
70. Electrical machinery	17	0
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	41	0
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	297	152
VII. Vehicles	5,713	545
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	156	8
81. Motor repairers and garages	1,597	155
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	3,365	378
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	711	807
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	152	71
X. Textiles	1,833	2,423
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	147	159
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	16	35
112. Woollen and worsted	353	791
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	577	804
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	120	322
123. Textile finishing, etc.	494	189
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	630	266
XII. Clothing	976	2,854
140. Tailoring	282	1,011
141. Dressmaking	31	644
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	564	426
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	2,446	2,678
150-162. Food	1,981	2,514
163-168. Drink	454	164
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	1,290	126
170. Timber	427	25
171. Furniture and upholstery	316	88
XV. Paper and printing	1,055	504
180. Paper and board	383	97
186,189. Printing and publishing	555	216
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	622	476
XVII. Building and contracting	9,641	219
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	1,824	130
210. Gas	524	43
211. Electricity	1,165	86
212. Water	135	1
XIX. Transport and communication	9,099	903
220. Railways	5,042	123
221,222. Road passenger transport	1,450	204
223. Goods transport by road	941	46
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	492	8
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	1,101	507
XX. Distributive trades	6,992	5,587
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	964	167
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	301	25
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	474	200
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	2,170	1,721
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	589	151
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	2,304	2,987
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	190	336
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	1,143	399
XXII. Public administration and defence	9,514	1,383
260. National government service	6,617	883
265. Local government service	2,897	500
XXIII. Professional services	2,710	3,945
271. Education	1,055	1,779
273. Medical and dental services	709	1,724
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	2,986	7,096
280,281. Entertainment and sport	516	260
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	1,330	3,939
286. Laundries	182	502
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	18	81
288. Hairdressing and manicure	185	215
290,291. Private domestic service	454	1,953
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	51	31

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

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

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