Ilar Upper

Ilar Upper is a historic hundred in the county of Cardigan. It was number 5 out of 6 (in population) in the county of Cardigan and number 53 out of 90 in all of Wales.

Basic Statistics

Below is a snapshot of key statistics which are population, number of houses, and the female proportion of the population.

Family Occupations

This pie chart shows the principle occupation by family in Ilar Upper. For Ilar Upper, the proportion of families that were mainly involved in Agriculture was 57.84%. In Manufacture and Trade, the proportion was 22.4%, and other occupations made up 19.75%.

For comparison, for the entire county of Cardigan the proportion of families that were mainly involved in Agriculture was 53.08%. In Manufacture and Trade, the proportion was 23.75%, and other occupations made up 23.17%.

For comparison, for the entire country of Wales (including the county of Monmouth), the proportion of families that was mainly involved in Agriculture were 42.27%. In Manufacture and Trade, the proportion was 28.6%, and other occupations made up 29.13%.

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Male Occupations

The bar chart shows a breakdown in occupations of males over 20 in the hundred of Ilar Upper. The following is a proportion breakdown of each employment type (with comparisons to county and country levels):

Occupation Ilar Upper Cardigan Wales
Agriculture Employing Labourers 15.82% 13.71% 9.65%
Agriculture Not Employing Labourers 12.46% 13.23% 9.53%
Agriculture that are Labourers 36.82% 32.56% 27.22%
Manufacturing 1.93% 1.7% 4.29%
Retail Trade or Handicraft 16.43% 22.97% 22.51%
Professional or other Education Occupation1.6% 2.84% 2.71%
Labourers not in Agriculture 11.36% 6.51% 17.48%
Servants 0.33% 0.57% 1.12%
Other Occupations 3.25% 5.92% 5.5%

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Housing

This pie chart shows the houses in Ilar Upper by completion and whether they were inhabited. For Ilar Upper, the proportion of houses that were inhabited was 97.23%. For houses being built, the proportion was 0.9%, and uninhabited made up 1.87%.

For comparison, for the entire county of Cardigan, the proportion of houses that were inhabited was 96.74%. For houses being built, the proportion was 0.85%, and uninhabited made up 2.4%.

For comparison, for the entire country of Wales (including the county of Monmouth), the proportion of houses that were inhabited was 95.35%. For houses being built, the proportion was 0.8%, and uninhabited made up 3.84%.

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