Vision of Britain | 1851 Census: Population tables 2

1851 Census of Great Britain, Population tables 2 (Sample Report Title: Population Tables I. Number of Inhabitants in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841 and 1851: Report: Objects of census and machinery employed; results and observations; appendix of tabular results, and summary tables: England and Wales, Divisions I to VII. Area, houses, 1841 and 1851; Population, 1801, 1811, 1821, 1831, 1841, and 1851), Table [1]: " Population Abstract".

List for top level	Scotland
	This table contains 25 data columns in total, which cannot all be displayed at once	Columns 6-10 >>

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses: 1841: Inhabited [2]	Houses: 1841: Uninhabited [3]	Houses: 1841: Building [4]	Houses: 1851: Inhabited [5]
Scotland Total	502,852	24,025	2,646	370,308	12,146
Dumfries Shire ScoCnty	14,356	733	51	13,300	412
Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty	8,162	323	25	7,009	225
Wigtownshire ScoCnty	7,440	271	45	6,902	164
Ayrshire ScoCnty	30,125	1,303	69	23,554	824
Buteshire ScoCnty	3,067	97	15	2,335	77
Renfrewshire ScoCnty	24,664	1,122	114	10,760	300
Dunbartonshire ScoCnty	7,985	384	101	4,792	238
Lanarkshire ScoCnty	81,458	3,868	844	37,504	1,279
Stirlingshire ScoCnty	15,813	801	36	11,312	510
West Lothian ScoCnty	5,333	342	19	4,059	116
Midlothian ScoCnty	38,927	2,852	122	20,946	851
Peebles Shire ScoCnty	2,118	157	13	1,796	98
Selkirkshire ScoCnty	1,446	76	4	1,331	25
Roxburghshire ScoCnty	8,661	358	34	7,255	224
Berwickshire ScoCnty	7,408	381	28	6,363	251
East Lothian ScoCnty	8,010	742	29	6,444	424
Fife ScoCnty	29,036	1,511	133	24,610	1,062
Kinross Shire ScoCnty	1,812	116	16	1,662	67
Clackmannanshire ScoCnty	3,406	111	6	2,950	96
Perthshire ScoCnty	28,993	1,803	81	22,528	852
Angus ScoCnty	36,184	2,071	128	22,446	725
Kincardineshire ScoCnty	7,304	316	39	6,636	260
Aberdeenshire ScoCnty	32,063	1,091	158	31,743	768
Banffshire ScoCnty	11,149	474	82	10,662	377
Moray ScoCnty	8,154	372	39	7,642	223
Nairnshire ScoCnty	2,235	103	18	2,022	27
Inverness Shire ScoCnty	19,194	585	74	17,536	390
Argyll ScoCnty	18,552	582	73	15,039	484
Ross and Cromarty ScoCnty	16,286	408	117	15,941	321
Sutherland ScoCnty	4,977	180	42	4,943	52
Caithness ScoCnty	6,965	216	56	6,952	103
Orkney and Shetland ScoCnty	11,569	276	35	11,334	321
Orkney ScoCnty	6,181	134	29	6,085	168
Shetland ScoCnty	5,388	142	6	5,249	153

Notes:

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