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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Area
Houses
English Statute Acres
[1]
Inhabited
[2]
Families
[3]
Building
[4]
Uninhabited
[5]
England Dep Total   32,404,808 Show data context 2,308,220 Show data context 2,725,808 Show data context 23,293 Show data context 116,652 Show data context
Bedfordshire AncC Drill-down 297,652 Show data context 17,978 Show data context 20,016 Show data context 171 Show data context 324 Show data context
Berkshire AncC Drill-down 472,270 Show data context 28,032 Show data context 31,081 Show data context 234 Show data context 975 Show data context
Buckinghamshire AncC Drill-down 463,820 Show data context 28,172 Show data context 31,849 Show data context 134 Show data context 807 Show data context
Cambridgeshire AncC Drill-down 536,853 Show data context 26,685 Show data context 30,210 Show data context 162 Show data context 631 Show data context
Cheshire AncC Drill-down 649,050 Show data context 60,798 Show data context 64,955 Show data context 406 Show data context 2,818 Show data context
Cornwall AncC Drill-down 854,970 Show data context 53,481 Show data context 59,816 Show data context 758 Show data context 2,538 Show data context
Cumberland AncC Drill-down 969,430 Show data context 31,017 Show data context 34,820 Show data context 213 Show data context 1,522 Show data context
Derbyshire AncC Drill-down 663,180 Show data context 46,098 Show data context 48,320 Show data context 356 Show data context 1,989 Show data context
Devon AncC Drill-down 1,636,530 Show data context 81,999 Show data context 101,911 Show data context 1,381 Show data context 4,220 Show data context
Dorset AncC Drill-down 627,220 Show data context 29,303 Show data context 33,614 Show data context 310 Show data context 1,200 Show data context
County Durham AncC Drill-down 679,530 Show data context 41,460 Show data context 54,992 Show data context 345 Show data context 1,570 Show data context
Essex AncC Drill-down 979,000 Show data context 57,158 Show data context 65,319 Show data context 354 Show data context 1,860 Show data context
Gloucestershire AncC Drill-down 790,470 Show data context 71,254 Show data context 83,446 Show data context 794 Show data context 4,263 Show data context
Herefordshire AncC Drill-down 543,800 Show data context 21,903 Show data context 23,565 Show data context 159 Show data context 869 Show data context
Hertfordshire AncC Drill-down 400,370 Show data context 26,549 Show data context 29,250 Show data context 119 Show data context 699 Show data context
Huntingdonshire AncC Drill-down 241,690 Show data context 9,990 Show data context 11,278 Show data context 40 Show data context 290 Show data context
Kent AncC Drill-down 972,240 Show data context 82,153 Show data context 97,142 Show data context 842 Show data context 3,818 Show data context
Lancashire AncC Drill-down 2,089,516 Show data context 228,120 Show data context 260,025 Show data context 2,842 Show data context 15,014 Show data context
Leicestershire AncC Drill-down 511,340 Show data context 40,351 Show data context 42,242 Show data context 174 Show data context 1,844 Show data context
Lincolnshire AncC Drill-down 1,663,850 Show data context 61,615 Show data context 65,903 Show data context 268 Show data context 1,971 Show data context
Middlesex AncC Drill-down 178,990 Show data context 163,758 Show data context 286,436 Show data context 3,838 Show data context 13,282 Show data context
London AncC Drill-down 600 Show data context 16,735 Show data context 27,603 Show data context 81 Show data context 1,131 Show data context
Norfolk AncC Drill-down 1,292,300 Show data context 74,793 Show data context 84,259 Show data context 439 Show data context 2,868 Show data context
Northamptonshire AncC Drill-down 646,817 Show data context 36,322 Show data context 39,163 Show data context 154 Show data context 882 Show data context
Northumberland AncC Drill-down 1,150,130 Show data context 35,826 Show data context 48,364 Show data context 220 Show data context 1,517 Show data context
Nottinghamshire AncC Drill-down 525,800 Show data context 44,936 Show data context 47,117 Show data context 456 Show data context 1,701 Show data context
Oxfordshire AncC Drill-down 467,270 Show data context 29,334 Show data context 31,770 Show data context 198 Show data context 849 Show data context
Rutland AncC Drill-down 96,980 Show data context 3,935 Show data context 4,191 Show data context 22 Show data context 99 Show data context
Shropshire AncC Drill-down 864,360 Show data context 42,633 Show data context 46,427 Show data context 253 Show data context 1,415 Show data context
Somerset AncC Drill-down 1,028,090 Show data context 71,325 Show data context 84,571 Show data context 939 Show data context 3,617 Show data context
Hampshire AncC Drill-down 1,018,550 Show data context 56,526 Show data context 64,652 Show data context 522 Show data context 2,017 Show data context
Staffordshire AncC Drill-down 736,290 Show data context 78,049 Show data context 83,593 Show data context 573 Show data context 4,088 Show data context
Suffolk AncC Drill-down 918,400 Show data context 50,139 Show data context 61,533 Show data context 259 Show data context 1,141 Show data context
Surrey AncC Drill-down 474,480 Show data context 80,070 Show data context 109,077 Show data context 1,073 Show data context 6,102 Show data context
Sussex AncC Drill-down 907,920 Show data context 45,505 Show data context 52,716 Show data context 620 Show data context 1,859 Show data context
Warwickshire AncC Drill-down 567,930 Show data context 68,253 Show data context 72,357 Show data context 782 Show data context 3,882 Show data context
Westmorland AncC Drill-down 485,990 Show data context 10,353 Show data context 10,984 Show data context 44 Show data context 421 Show data context
Wiltshire AncC Drill-down 869,620 Show data context 46,281 Show data context 51,659 Show data context 321 Show data context 1,897 Show data context
Worcestershire AncC Drill-down 459,710 Show data context 41,646 Show data context 45,512 Show data context 302 Show data context 2,066 Show data context
Yorkshire AncC Drill-down 3,671,800 Show data context 267,685 Show data context 284,070 Show data context 2,135 Show data context 16,596 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.