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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Persons
Agriculture
Total of Persons
[1]
Males Twenty Years of Age
[2]
Occupiers employing Labourers.
[3]
Occupiers not employing Labourers.
[4]
Labourers employed in Agriculture.
[5]
England Dep Total   12,992,297 Show data context 3,173,022 Show data context 139,779 Show data context 93,640 Show data context 739,488 Show data context
Bedfordshire AncC Drill-down 95,483 Show data context 22,517 Show data context 1,330 Show data context 474 Show data context 11,588 Show data context
Berkshire AncC Drill-down 145,389 Show data context 37,084 Show data context 1,711 Show data context 458 Show data context 14,802 Show data context
Buckinghamshire AncC Drill-down 146,529 Show data context 35,504 Show data context 2,152 Show data context 453 Show data context 16,743 Show data context
Cambridgeshire AncC Drill-down 143,955 Show data context 35,715 Show data context 2,421 Show data context 1,266 Show data context 15,698 Show data context
Cheshire AncC Drill-down 334,391 Show data context 78,940 Show data context 4,374 Show data context 4,059 Show data context 15,094 Show data context
Cornwall AncC Drill-down 300,938 Show data context 69,737 Show data context 4,608 Show data context 3,613 Show data context 16,243 Show data context
Cumberland AncC Drill-down 169,681 Show data context 40,614 Show data context 3,617 Show data context 2,839 Show data context 9,010 Show data context
Derbyshire AncC Drill-down 237,170 Show data context 58,178 Show data context 3,320 Show data context 4,257 Show data context 10,593 Show data context
Devon AncC Drill-down 494,478 Show data context 116,188 Show data context 9,328 Show data context 3,356 Show data context 35,311 Show data context
Dorset AncC Drill-down 163,327 Show data context 37,861 Show data context 2,243 Show data context 967 Show data context 14,056 Show data context
County Durham AncC Drill-down 253,910 Show data context 59,045 Show data context 2,229 Show data context 1,544 Show data context 7,556 Show data context
Essex AncC Drill-down 317,507 Show data context 79,023 Show data context 4,561 Show data context 888 Show data context 38,234 Show data context
Gloucestershire AncC Drill-down 387,019 Show data context 94,234 Show data context 3,675 Show data context 1,846 Show data context 20,927 Show data context
Herefordshire AncC Drill-down 110,686 Show data context 29,342 Show data context 2,505 Show data context 1,679 Show data context 12,213 Show data context
Hertfordshire AncC Drill-down 143,341 Show data context 34,910 Show data context 1,518 Show data context 399 Show data context 14,700 Show data context
Huntingdonshire AncC Drill-down 53,192 Show data context 13,001 Show data context 857 Show data context 397 Show data context 5,967 Show data context
Kent AncC Drill-down 478,570 Show data context 115,655 Show data context 4,361 Show data context 2,152 Show data context 36,113 Show data context
Lancashire AncC Drill-down 1,335,600 Show data context 313,097 Show data context 6,658 Show data context 9,714 Show data context 20,949 Show data context
Leicestershire AncC Drill-down 197,003 Show data context 49,812 Show data context 2,656 Show data context 2,045 Show data context 10,642 Show data context
Lincolnshire AncC Drill-down 317,465 Show data context 79,535 Show data context 6,901 Show data context 6,204 Show data context 32,167 Show data context
Middlesex AncC Drill-down 1,234,447 Show data context 322,505 Show data context 1,033 Show data context 490 Show data context 11,350 Show data context
London AncC Drill-down 123,683 Show data context 36,016 Show data context 17 Show data context 0 Show data context 26 Show data context
Norfolk AncC Drill-down 390,054 Show data context 93,498 Show data context 5,229 Show data context 2,718 Show data context 37,466 Show data context
Northamptonshire AncC Drill-down 179,336 Show data context 43,793 Show data context 3,015 Show data context 1,117 Show data context 17,775 Show data context
Northumberland AncC Drill-down 222,912 Show data context 53,212 Show data context 2,374 Show data context 1,270 Show data context 10,443 Show data context
Nottinghamshire AncC Drill-down 225,327 Show data context 56,582 Show data context 2,643 Show data context 2,414 Show data context 11,799 Show data context
Oxfordshire AncC Drill-down 152,156 Show data context 39,023 Show data context 2,054 Show data context 458 Show data context 15,998 Show data context
Rutland AncC Drill-down 19,385 Show data context 4,940 Show data context 429 Show data context 424 Show data context 1,910 Show data context
Shropshire AncC Drill-down 222,938 Show data context 56,474 Show data context 3,832 Show data context 2,139 Show data context 17,296 Show data context
Somerset AncC Drill-down 402,776 Show data context 95,556 Show data context 6,032 Show data context 3,731 Show data context 28,107 Show data context
Hampshire AncC Drill-down 314,280 Show data context 74,711 Show data context 2,774 Show data context 1,234 Show data context 24,675 Show data context
Staffordshire AncC Drill-down 410,512 Show data context 101,632 Show data context 3,781 Show data context 3,649 Show data context 16,812 Show data context
Suffolk AncC Drill-down 296,317 Show data context 71,376 Show data context 4,526 Show data context 1,121 Show data context 33,040 Show data context
Surrey AncC Drill-down 485,669 Show data context 119,565 Show data context 1,873 Show data context 727 Show data context 16,761 Show data context
Sussex AncC Drill-down 272,340 Show data context 67,077 Show data context 3,160 Show data context 1,330 Show data context 26,125 Show data context
Warwickshire AncC Drill-down 336,610 Show data context 83,239 Show data context 2,838 Show data context 1,142 Show data context 15,644 Show data context
Westmorland AncC Drill-down 55,041 Show data context 14,020 Show data context 1,435 Show data context 1,685 Show data context 3,474 Show data context
Wiltshire AncC Drill-down 240,156 Show data context 58,039 Show data context 3,356 Show data context 1,237 Show data context 24,532 Show data context
Worcestershire AncC Drill-down 211,365 Show data context 52,796 Show data context 2,636 Show data context 1,260 Show data context 14,590 Show data context
Yorkshire AncC Drill-down 1,371,359 Show data context 328,976 Show data context 15,717 Show data context 16,884 Show data context 53,059 Show data context

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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.

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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.