1891 Census of England and Wales, Area, Houses and Population: Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts, Table 2 : " Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes".

List for top level	Essex	List for England Dep

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
			Inhabited				Uninhabited				Building				Persons		Males		Females
			1881 [2]	1881 [3]	1881 [4]	1891 [5]	1891 [6]	1891 [7]	1881 [8]	1891 [9]	1881 [10]	1891 [11]	1881 [12]	1891 [13]
Essex RegC Total		904,642	103,688	8,828	2,211	158,999	9,333	1,341	552,297	761,191	276,192	378,425	276,105	382,766
West Ham RegD/PLU		18,807	31,211	3,428	1,652	59,447	3,458	732	200,958	365,134	100,208	180,357	100,750	184,777
Epping RegD/PLU		48,119	4,378	221	27	5,279	305	34	21,754	26,137	10,703	12,577	11,051	13,560
Ongar RegD/PLU		47,230	2,194	178	6	2,191	161	0	10,671	10,557	5,529	5,472	5,142	5,085
Romford RegD/PLU		47,663	7,055	425	155	27,520	573	99	37,050	50,013	18,185	24,703	18,865	25,310
Orsett RegD/PLU		41,365	2,843	119	40	4,716	542	52	16,480	27,310	9,309	15,106	7,171	12,204
Billericay RegD/PLU		49,850	3,299	258	31	3,539	234	21	18,363	20,555	9,191	10,593	9,172	9,962
Chelmsford RegD/PLU		86,165	7,075	495	33	7,414	440	47	32,923	34,182	16,383	16,841	16,540	17,341
Rochford RegD/PLU		63,133	4,467	346	68	5,699	321	118	24,406	30,271	12,696	15,029	11,710	15,242
Maldon RegD/PLU		89,421	5,179	478	17	5,315	416	33	23,862	23,498	12,047	11,969	11,815	11,529
Tendring RegD/PLU		84,491	6,991	670	46	8,059	561	66	33,475	37,403	17,185	18,564	16,290	18,839
Colchester RegD/PLU		11,331	5,479	292	64	6,449	449	52	28,374	34,559	13,922	17,525	14,452	17,034
Lexden and Winstree RegD/PLU		71,036	4,845	324	6	4,895	309	16	21,749	21,590	10,924	10,877	10,825	10,713
Halstead RegD/PLU		39,360	3,967	340	6	3,947	323	6	17,005	16,869	7,896	7,902	9,109	8,967
Braintree RegD/PLU		68,286	6,482	507	26	6,507	517	43	28,621	28,481	13,598	13,502	15,023	14,979
Dunmow RegD/PLU		73,503	4,078	443	20	3,895	395	17	18,018	16,674	9,216	8,524	8,802	8,150
Saffron Walden RegD/PLU		64,882	4,145	304	14	4,127	329	5	18,588	17,958	9,200	8,884	9,388	9,074

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The Registration Districts of this Division are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions, except ...
2	Where the name of a Registration County in which a Parish is situated differs from that of the Administrative County to which it belongs, the name of the latter is added in italics. [further information on special cases in the specific division.]
3	(W) or (W.S.) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the Parish; (w) or (w.s.) that one of these institutions not belonging to the District is situated therein. A statement of the number of persons enumerated in Public Institutions in each District will be found in Table 8.
4	The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are Hamlets, Villages, etc, or localities having no defined boundaries.
5	Under the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876, 1879 and 1882 numerous detached parts of Civil Parishes have been amalgamated with other Civil Parishes, and a statement of such transferences is given in Table 14.
6	Revised areas of Civil Parishes and parts of Parishes have been furnished by the Ordnance Survey Department.
7	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to Parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 11.
8	Persons who, on the night of 5th April, 1891, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going and coastal vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included in the general population. For details see Table 9.

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