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]						20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]
Babergh Hundred Total		68,380	4,489	5,179	15	103	2,996	1,390	793	11,872	11,806	23,678	5,609	360	52	2,974	69	1,307	115	269	378	85	41	624
Ballingdon Ch/AP/CP		730	179	198	0	3	45	109	44	399	424	823	182	3	0	45	5	108	0	17	3	1	1	22
Bures Hmlt/CP		1,480	100	101	1	0	55	30	16	279	284	563	125	7	1	55	0	34	2	5	21	0	3	10
Acton AP/CP		2,090	96	129	0	0	88	17	24	289	276	565	139	11	3	88	0	18	2	3	11	3	0	15
Alpheton AP/CP		2,250	66	67	0	1	47	14	6	158	151	309	73	9	0	46	0	12	1	0	3	2	1	10
Assington AP/CP		3,450	129	129	0	1	116	11	2	320	321	641	165	14	4	120	0	13	2	0	5	7	2	27
Boxford CP/AP		2,450	220	232	2	4	108	69	55	553	535	1,088	288	14	0	136	0	95	7	20	15	1	4	35
Boxted AP/CP		1,580	23	41	0	1	35	5	1	135	104	239	67	6	0	45	0	5	1	3	4	3	1	13
Brent Eleigh CP/AP		1,650	49	63	0	0	36	14	13	146	144	290	75	6	1	45	0	14	2	5	1	1	0	8
Bures St Mary AP/CP		2,740	110	189	1	0	110	55	24	500	496	996	259	14	0	128	0	49	2	59	0	7	0	30
Cavendish AP/CP		3,450	270	282	0	14	126	103	53	587	627	1,214	321	8	1	143	3	124	7	1	30	4	0	15
Chilton AP/CP		1,090	23	23	0	0	19	0	4	55	53	108	31	3	0	20	0	0	6	0	2	0	0	7
Cockfield AP/CP		3,470	207	228	1	3	173	44	11	515	508	1,023	218	18	3	154	0	29	1	3	10	0	0	26
Great Cornard AP/CP		1,610	167	203	1	6	114	55	34	438	381	819	207	9	2	133	0	26	5	23	5	4	3	25
Little Cornard CP/AP		1,480	67	70	2	2	57	10	3	185	160	345	88	7	2	68	0	5	0	4	1	1	1	11
Edwardstone AP/CP		1,780	56	93	1	0	78	12	3	242	261	503	106	12	1	68	0	12	2	5	6	0	0	20
Glemsford AP/CP		2,280	276	291	0	22	157	121	13	731	739	1,470	342	14	4	166	44	79	4	2	29	0	1	17
Groton AP/CP		1,580	117	137	1	4	77	47	13	294	283	577	152	7	0	82	0	52	3	2	4	2	3	13
Hartest AP/CP		1,900	162	170	0	2	99	56	15	376	385	761	159	19	4	55	3	64	4	6	4	0	0	32
Lavenham AP/CP		2,800	434	451	0	6	164	181	106	1,044	1,063	2,107	403	10	1	124	14	155	14	13	65	7	5	26
Lawshall AP/CP		2,280	120	192	1	0	141	49	2	464	421	885	228	25	0	148	0	37	2	0	11	5	0	22
Long Melford CP/AP		4,320	539	564	0	8	195	180	189	1,208	1,306	2,514	501	18	11	179	3	140	12	53	71	14	9	66
Milden CP/AP		1,430	23	43	0	0	42	1	0	79	98	177	45	9	1	33	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	10
Monks Eleigh AP/CP		1,670	86	161	0	3	98	38	25	386	347	733	206	8	0	125	0	57	7	0	7	2	0	16
Nayland Ch/CP		1,470	227	239	0	9	77	103	59	517	530	1,047	265	4	2	71	0	107	14	45	17	5	1	36
Newton AP/CP		1,370	83	108	0	1	92	14	2	214	218	432	113	9	0	84	0	14	2	0	4	0	2	16
Polstead AP/CP		2,810	202	209	0	1	126	43	40	484	476	960	207	17	4	116	0	47	2	0	15	6	0	20
Preston St Mary CP/AP		1,640	42	70	0	0	64	6	0	158	163	321	78	10	0	61	0	5	0	2	0	0	0	4
Shimpling CP/AP		2,730	98	131	1	1	82	13	36	250	246	496	127	11	3	76	0	15	1	3	17	1	0	14
Somerton AP/CP		1,000	27	28	0	1	27	1	0	76	65	141	37	4	1	28	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	3
Stanstead CP/AP		1,190	72	74	4	4	55	15	4	176	177	353	89	11	1	54	2	14	2	1	3	1	1	8
Stoke By Nayland CP/AP		4,530	282	319	0	7	178	79	62	740	707	1,447	335	25	0	166	0	79	6	33	21	5	3	46
Great Waldingfield CP/AP		2,170	138	146	0	2	120	23	3	335	344	679	177	20	1	114	0	22	3	0	15	2	2	20
Little Waldingfield AP/CP		1,560	91	97	0	0	72	19	6	197	206	403	107	8	1	73	0	21	1	1	0	2	0	8
Wissington CP/AP		1,170	33	46	0	0	45	1	0	133	116	249	54	5	1	47	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	8

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Babergh 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.

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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.

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