page_title: Hessett
section_title: Industry
hierarchical_section_title: Hessett / Industry
caption_attribution_description: English: Total number of males and females in relation to their occupation in 1881.
context_page_description: Hessett is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Hessett is located around four miles south east of Bury St Edmunds along Manor Road with only a few smaller roads within the area. In 2005 its population was 490 which has been the highest recorded population since its peak in 1850. Hessett is south of Beyton and west of Drinkstone which are both larger towns with more accessible routes.
  In the 1870s, John Marius Wilson's described Hessett like this:
  HESSETT, a parish in Stow district, Suffolk; 2½ miles S of Thurston r. station. The church was built by the Bacons; is in good condition; has a beautiful window and a tower; and contains tombs of the Bacons.
context_section_description: The census in 1831 gave a more detailed structure into people's occupation in comparison to the 1801 census, for Hessett, the majority of the male population aged 20 and over were involved in some agricultural occupation as "the land is chiefly arable", for example; " Farmers employing labourers and agricultural labourers."  The remaining of males in Hessett held occupations of "Retail and Handicrafts and 2 Farmers not employing Labourers". This information shows that the majority of males living in Hessett in 1831 were mostly involved in agricultural occupations rather than Capitalists professions. According to Vision of Britain, the main occupation which dominated Hessett in 1831 would be servants and labourers with "63" people being grouped in this occupation. There is a clear change in the type of occupations into the next record of data in 1881 where the type of occupations were more detailed, for example, from the table of Occupations of male and females in Hessett in 1881 produced from Neighbourhood Statistics and Vision of Britain it gives a broader view of who and what the occupations were formed of. From the table we can see that the majority of females were grouped into having an unknown occupation which would indicate that they did housework and looked after families and for males the main occupation was "conveyance of men, goods and messages" with 80 men holding this occupation. There is an obvious shift in the 'type' of occupations held for example the occupations for the 1831 record were sorted into 4 categories where as the later data was sorted into 6 categories and instead of being "labourers and servants" for the 1831 dataset the labouring and agriculture occupations were grouped as being; vegetable substances, food and lodging, animals and conveyance of men, goods and messages which could be related to the later record of data in 1881 being more specified than that of 1831 but most of the occupations still relate to some sort of agricultural profession. With the data from both the 1831 and 1881 occupational data there is a large indication that there wasn't much opportunity for  a range of occupations other than that was based around agriculture.
caption: Occupations for male and females in 1881 for Hessett.
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