Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

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 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]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Suffolk AncC Total	918,400	50,139	61,533	259	1,141	31,491	18,116	11,926	145,769	150,548	296,317	71,376	4,526	1,121	33,040	676	18,167	2,228	5,336	4,940	1,342	690	11,483
Thetford Borough	4,040	675	716	12	13	81	467	168	1,585	1,877	3,462	820	29	11	96	0	338	32	104	185	25	4	142
Babergh Hundred	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
Blackbourn Hundred	67,370	1,929	2,855	4	32	1,979	590	286	7,246	7,021	14,267	3,553	261	100	2,108	0	638	61	103	217	65	23	507
Blything Hundred	83,850	3,917	4,998	13	88	2,799	1,251	948	11,950	12,227	24,177	5,967	450	102	3,002	16	1,443	181	323	358	92	54	921
Bosmere and Claydon Hundred	50,640	2,361	2,591	6	21	1,808	555	228	6,478	6,478	12,956	3,193	314	33	1,852	3	575	62	80	219	55	16	548
Carlford Hundred	22,550	1,014	1,325	5	13	945	244	136	3,227	3,121	6,348	1,576	125	26	988	0	284	32	28	76	17	19	222
Colneis Hundred	17,460	647	883	2	9	592	188	103	2,173	2,196	4,369	1,085	65	17	641	7	190	17	66	59	23	14	181
Cosford Hundred	30,640	1,917	2,157	2	51	1,146	600	411	5,229	5,260	10,489	2,564	186	13	1,241	15	628	68	169	207	37	16	318
Hartismere Hundred	54,880	2,412	3,559	19	25	2,212	940	407	8,726	9,145	17,871	4,171	390	96	2,273	8	936	110	76	197	85	37	619
Hoxne Hundred	53,070	2,162	3,282	5	34	2,227	734	321	8,261	8,138	16,399	4,033	464	106	2,222	8	790	47	91	273	32	28	607
Lackford Hundred	79,800	2,401	2,713	20	53	1,123	821	769	6,539	6,570	13,109	3,133	126	98	1,193	62	850	83	358	207	156	160	496
Loes Hundred	33,290	2,502	2,768	31	48	1,148	867	753	6,550	6,994	13,544	3,121	163	45	1,200	0	959	129	282	286	57	13	590
Mutford and Lothingland Hundred	32,960	2,965	3,302	22	101	1,180	870	1,252	7,425	7,830	15,255	3,746	152	95	1,186	0	1,031	138	713	374	57	8	587
Plomesgate Hundred	41,390	1,730	2,383	6	26	1,230	639	514	5,506	5,779	11,285	2,722	169	25	1,358	2	674	83	211	155	45	24	437
Risbridge Hundred	59,160	2,850	3,349	17	58	2,187	870	292	8,070	8,145	16,215	3,980	240	39	2,341	191	719	72	146	181	51	19	533
Samford Hundred	44,620	1,652	2,187	7	24	1,494	416	277	5,679	5,563	11,242	2,888	196	38	1,758	2	518	79	88	152	57	15	438
Stow Hundred	22,010	1,390	1,716	19	25	907	498	311	4,133	4,175	8,308	2,039	140	30	946	13	503	64	183	132	28	7	329
Thedwastre Hundred	39,820	1,523	2,139	11	29	1,561	365	213	5,068	5,035	10,103	2,488	205	46	1,558	0	426	54	40	125	34	10	380
Thingoe Hundred	31,850	963	1,224	5	12	891	203	130	3,046	2,976	6,022	1,556	94	28	1,020	0	203	25	92	57	37	5	190
Thredling Hundred	7,630	435	668	1	1	463	169	36	1,703	1,625	3,328	754	65	10	435	0	191	9	16	27	1	8	88
Wangford Hundred	35,540	2,454	2,810	9	64	1,179	1,071	560	6,583	7,022	13,605	3,204	202	58	1,229	5	1,091	100	302	162	55	28	647
Wilford Hundred	30,180	1,108	1,490	3	23	955	326	209	3,679	3,754	7,433	1,793	97	40	941	0	372	51	90	172	30	23	303
Bury St Edmunds Borough	3,040	2,231	2,429	10	51	141	1,299	989	5,246	6,190	11,436	2,550	15	5	187	0	1,353	200	397	295	98	67	718
Ipswich Borough	7,020	4,116	4,450	25	214	274	2,490	1,686	9,169	11,032	20,201	4,509	42	19	325	6	2,080	393	1,106	422	116	47	1,007
Sudbury Borough	1,250	971	1,076	2	36	54	720	302	2,211	2,466	4,677	1,142	5	0	62	269	406	55	107	209	29	8	193

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.

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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.