Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Appendix 6: Comparison of different zones. Average (mean) percentages for
different occupational sectors in the 1811, 1821 and 1831 censuses
Zone
% of
families
chiefly in
agriculture
% of families chiefly
in trade, manufacture
or handicraft
% of other
families
Zone A, Alcester 16.0 52.1 31.9
Zone B, Southern (Champion) Country 76.4 17.2 6.4
Zone C, Central (Wood-pasture) Belt 71.6 19.8 8.6
Zone D, Northern (Needle) District 39.3 51.6 9.1
Whole Study Area 53.3 36.1 10.6
Appendix 6 shows the statistics from the censuses of 1811 to 1831 aggregated in
order to smooth out any quirks in enumeration. As may be expected from other sources,
Zones A and D are the most industrialised.
Appendix 7: 1831 census: Labourers and the female/male split in population
Total no.
of labs
% of labs
in agric.
% of nonagric.
labs
Males as
% of total
population
Females as
% of total
Population
Zone A, Alcester 105 54.3 45.7 46.6 53.4
Bidford-on-Avon 158 93.0 7.0 49.0 51.0
Cleeve Prior,Worcs. 73 94.5 5.5 50.5 49.5
Dorsington, Glos. 28 100.0 0.0 46.7 53.3
Harvington, Worcs. 53 100.0 0.0 46.2 53.8
Long Marston, Glos. 50 98.0 2.0 50.8 49.2
Pebworth 69 100.0 0.0 51.1 48.9
Broad Marston 36 100.0 0.0 51.9 48.1
Pebworth, Glos. 105 100.0 0.0 51.4 48.6
Salford Priors 149 94.6 5.4 48.4 51.6
Weethley 9 100.0 0.0 48.4 51.6
Bickmarsh/Lit.Dors.,Warks 13 100.0 0.0 49.2 50.8
Welford-on-Avon,Glos 101 100.0 0.0 50.7 49.3
Welford-on-Avon,Glos. 114 100.0 0.0 50.5 49.5
Milcote,Warks 2 100.0 0.0 46.7 53.3
Weston-on-Avon,Glos 30 100.0 0.0 55.9 44.1
Weston-on-Avon,Glos. 32 100.0 0.0 54.6 45.4
Zone B, Southern
(Champion) Country
771 96.9 3.1 49.5 50.5
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