Pool

Pool is a historic hundred in the county of Montgomery. It was number 3 out of 9 (in population) in the county of Montgomery and number 43 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 Pool. For Pool, the proportion of families that were mainly involved in Agriculture was 48.94%. In Manufacture and Trade, the proportion was 34.77%, and other occupations made up 16.29%.

For comparison, for the entire county of Montgomery the proportion of families that were mainly involved in Agriculture was 49.3%. In Manufacture and Trade, the proportion was 31.31%, and other occupations made up 19.39%.

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 Pool. The following is a proportion breakdown of each employment type (with comparisons to county and country levels):

Occupation Pool Montgomery Wales
Agriculture Employing Labourers 8.39% 11.59% 9.65%
Agriculture Not Employing Labourers 4.71% 9.63% 9.53%
Agriculture that are Labourers 35.28%34.37% 27.22%
Manufacturing 3.1% 9.8% 4.29%
Retail Trade or Handicraft 26.62%20.15% 22.51%
Professional or other Education Occupation4.08% 2.5% 2.71%
Labourers not in Agriculture 11.62%5.84% 17.48%
Servants 1.48% 1.02% 1.12%
Other Occupations 4.71% 5.11% 5.5%

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Housing

This pie chart shows the houses in Pool by completion and whether they were inhabited. For Pool, the proportion of houses that were inhabited was 97.94%. For houses being built, the proportion was 0.4%, and uninhabited made up 1.66%.

For comparison, for the entire county of Montgomery, the proportion of houses that were inhabited was 96.33%. For houses being built, the proportion was 0.49%, and uninhabited made up 3.18%.

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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