Cambridgeshire Poor Law/Registration County : Persons aged 20 & over by Sex & 1861 Occupational Order

Persons aged 20 & over by Sex & 1861 Occupational Order

Data cube chart.

Data for 1861 Sex
1861 Occupational Orders Male Female
National & Local Government 455 Show data context 45 Show data context
Defence of the Country 179 Show data context
Professions & Arts 1,448 Show data context 753 Show data context
Wives, Mothers, Children 577 Show data context 28,393 Show data context
Personal [Services] 1,841 Show data context 6,335 Show data context
[Business Persons & Traders] 500 Show data context 211 Show data context
[Transport] 1,187 Show data context 35 Show data context
[Farming] 23,592 Show data context 6,086 Show data context
Engaged about Animals 935 Show data context 1 Show data context
Art & Mechanic Productions 3,858 Show data context 325 Show data context
Textiles & Dress 2,749 Show data context 5,113 Show data context
Food & Drink 2,800 Show data context 698 Show data context
Animal Substances 167 Show data context 2 Show data context
Vegetable Substances 658 Show data context 103 Show data context
Mineral Substances 2,012 Show data context 27 Show data context
KKBranch of Labour undefined 2,403 Show data context 115 Show data context
Persons of Rank or Property 146 Show data context 644 Show data context
Supported by the Community 326 Show data context 1,021 Show data context
Unknown 365 Show data context 634 Show data context

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Date Acknowledgments
1861 David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.

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nCube definition


From 1961 the census has gathered data on whether households owned or rented their homes, and if rented whom from. Here we present a simple classification which is possible for all dates. It is based on counts of households, rather than of persons within households. Note that, because of how the 1971 Census reported tenure, housing rented from Housing Associations has to be included with private rentals, separately from "council housing".


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Cambridgeshire Poor Law/Registration County through time | Historical Statistics on Industry | Persons aged 20 & over by Sex & 1861 Occupational Order, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10041788/cube/OCC_ORD1861_OVER20

Date accessed: 12th June 2026