| Occupation | 1830 | 1853 | 1894 | 1940 |
| Academies | 7 | |||
| Agricultural Machinery | 2 | |||
| Auctioneers | 1 | |||
| Automotive Engineers | 4 | |||
| Bakers | 2 | 3 | ||
| Bankers | 2 | |||
| Beerhouses | 2 | |||
| Blacksmiths | 3 | 4 | 2 | |
| Boot and Shoe Makers/Repairers | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 |
| Braziers and Tinners | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| Bricklayers | 5 | |||
| Brickmakers | 2 | 2 | ||
| Bus Proprietors | 1 | |||
| Butchers | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Cafes | 3 | |||
| Carriers | 7 | 4 | ||
| Chimney Sweeps | 1 | 1 | ||
| Clerks | 1 | |||
| Coal Dealers | 5 | 2 | ||
| Corn and Cake Merchants | 5 | |||
| Corn Millers | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Curriers | 2 | |||
| Cycle Agents | 2 | |||
| Doctors, Chemists | 5 | 2 | ||
| Drapers | 4 | 2 | ||
| Druggists | 3 | |||
| Earthenware Dealers | 1 | |||
| Engineers | 1 | |||
| Farmers | 24 | 24 | 25 | 19 |
| Fish Dealer | 1 | |||
| Furniture Dealers | 2 | |||
| Fruit Growers | 8 | |||
| Gas Workers | 2 | |||
| Grocers | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 |
| Greengrocers | 2 | |||
| Hairdressers | 1 | 3 | ||
| Haulage Contractors | 2 | |||
| Hay and Straw Merchants | 2 | |||
| Horse and Gig Letters | 2 | 2 | ||
| Hotels, Inns | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 |
| Insurance Agents | 3 | |||
| Iron Mongers | 2 | 2 | ||
| Joiners | 2 | |||
| Lime Merchants | 2 | |||
| Linen Drapers | 3 | |||
| Maltsters | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| Manure Dealers | 3 | |||
| Marine Store Dealers | 2 | |||
| Market Gardeners | 1 | |||
| Masseuse | 1 | |||
| Milliners and Dressmakers | 8 | |||
| Nail Makers | 3 | 3 | ||
| Newsagents | 2 | |||
| Nurserymen and Seedsmen | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| Oil Merchants | 1 | |||
| Painters, Plumbers and Glaziers | 3 | 8 | 2 | |
| Police | 1 | |||
| Post Office Workers | 1 | |||
| Registrar of Births and Deaths | 1 | |||
| Rope and Twine Makers | 3 | 3 | 1 | |
| Saddlers | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Sawyers | 1 | |||
| School Teachers | 5 | |||
| Shopkeepers (General) | 10 | |||
| Solicitors | 2 | |||
| Staymakers | 3 | |||
| Surgeons | 1 | |||
| Tailors | 5 | 9 | ||
| Tax Collectors | 1 | |||
| Tobacconists | 1 | |||
| Undertakers | 1 | |||
| Veterinary Surgeons | 1 | 1 | ||
| Watch and Clock Makers | 2 | 2 | ||
| Wheelwrights | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| Wines and Spirits | 3 | |||
| Wool Merchants | 1 |