Bakers and cooks in a medieval or fantasy town: how many, and where

About one household of bakers and cooks for every 3,500 townspeople. Counted as masters and heads of household: journeymen, apprentices and servants come on top. The Paris tax roll of 1292 names 62 of them, for a city of about 220,000 people: only those who paid the taille, so fewer than there were. About as common as money-changers and millers.

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TownspeopleHouseholds
3,0001
10,0003
40,00011
150,00043

Where they work

In every street: everywhere, every quarter has its own. The districts of a town

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Other trades

Butchers, Millers, Brewers and taverners, Innkeepers, Fishmongers

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