Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

1831 Census of Great Britain, Abstract of answers (Sample Report Title: Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof." Enumeration Abstract.), Table [1] : " Population Abstract".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area	Houses				Occupations			Persons				Agriculture			Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16]	Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17]	Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18]	Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	Male Servants		Female Servants [23]
	English Statute Acres [1]	Inhabited [2]	Families [3]	Building [4]	Uninhabited [5]	Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6]	Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7]	All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8]	Males [9]	Females [10]	Total of Persons [11]	Males Twenty Years of Age [12]	Occupiers employing Labourers. [13]	Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14]	Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Willey Hundred Total	40,460	1,619	1,802	14	22	1,178	385	239	4,199	4,428	8,627	2,078	158	43	1,256	1	397	44	58	74	47	46	236
Biddenham CP/AP	1,760	59	72	0	0	58	7	7	176	193	369	89	5	5	67	0	7	0	0	2	3	0	15
Bletsoe CP/AP	2,220	63	83	0	0	17	3	63	211	199	410	94	6	11	67	0	6	1	0	3	0	0	19
Bromham CP/AP	1,910	61	61	1	1	46	14	1	160	164	324	82	9	0	59	0	8	1	1	2	2	0	13
Carlton AP/CP	1,530	87	95	0	2	54	31	10	209	215	424	103	5	2	56	1	29	1	0	9	0	2	5
Chellington CP/AP	610	25	29	0	2	21	4	4	57	62	119	42	4	0	25	0	7	1	2	1	2	0	5
Farndish AP/CP	810	15	16	0	0	16	0	0	43	38	81	24	4	0	12	0	0	0	0	7	1	3	3
Felmersham CP/AP	2,400	100	103	0	0	85	13	5	233	215	448	108	4	3	89	0	8	2	2	0	0	4	10
Harrold AP/CP	3,240	210	220	2	4	83	76	61	485	510	995	280	21	10	88	0	110	6	31	7	7	10	30
Odell AP/CP	2,980	47	58	0	0	49	6	3	215	260	475	70	5	2	46	0	5	3	0	5	4	6	9
Pavenham Ch/CP	1,340	106	109	0	0	90	17	2	260	283	543	133	4	2	109	0	15	3	0	0	0	5	6
Podington AP/CP	2,770	91	114	0	0	87	24	3	265	298	563	131	12	1	82	0	24	5	0	5	2	4	18
Sharnbrook CP/AP	2,880	138	154	1	0	69	46	39	365	389	754	188	7	0	88	0	64	5	1	5	18	0	46
Souldrop AP/CP	1,290	43	46	0	0	41	4	1	113	129	242	77	4	1	67	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	5
Stagsden AP/CP	3,320	115	125	2	0	110	8	7	299	298	597	144	13	4	95	0	9	0	2	20	1	3	13
Stevington AP/CP	1,950	103	123	0	4	89	23	11	253	247	500	121	8	2	70	0	22	0	13	6	0	5	8
Thurleigh CP/AP	3,480	105	105	4	7	96	6	3	257	281	538	113	23	0	61	0	15	3	6	2	3	0	13
Turvey AP/CP	4,260	200	234	4	2	118	97	19	466	522	988	211	13	0	124	0	59	12	0	0	3	1	15
Wymington CP/AP	1,710	51	55	0	0	49	6	0	132	125	257	68	11	0	51	0	6	0	0	0	0	3	3
Bedford St Cuthbert AP/CP	2,220	157	196	0	2	30	83	83	325	408	733	163	1	3	25	2	74	12	30	13	3	0	24
Bedford St John CP/AP	-	89	112	0	4	13	83	16	228	258	486	115	3	0	16	0	67	13	10	6	0	2	20
Bedford St Mary CP/AP	-	160	169	0	2	0	77	92	380	499	879	217	0	0	0	0	105	25	37	37	13	7	99
Bedford St Paul AP/CP	-	798	838	33	34	14	459	365	1,895	2,061	3,956	970	3	0	85	0	569	70	174	52	17	20	232
Bedford St Peter CP/AP	-	193	229	12	7	13	90	126	374	531	905	212	5	2	11	0	90	27	36	37	4	2	60

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Willey Hundred:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

Comments:

1	This transcription also includes sub-parish units, but as they have not been systematically added to the auo they are not included in the material copied into the g_data table.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.

Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to the following contributors. If you make use of the data in your own work, please follow any instructions given here on acknowledgment and re-use.

David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.