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	Wakefield	List for West Riding RegC

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
		1841			1851			Persons						Males						Females
		Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Inhabited [5]	Uninhabited [6]	Building [7]	1801 [8]	1811 [9]	1821 [10]	1831 [11]	1841 [12]	1851 [13]	1801 [14]	1811 [15]	1821 [16]	1831 [17]	1841 [18]	1851 [19]	1801 [20]	1811 [21]	1821 [22]	1831 [23]	1841 [24]	1851 [25]
Wakefield RegD/PLU Total	40,140	8,987	625	116	9,874	608	47	27,617	30,552	35,666	38,376	45,698	48,956	13,356	14,768	17,510	18,784	22,977	24,331	14,261	15,784	18,156	19,592	22,721	24,625
Bretton SubD	9,820	1,019	43	7	1,059	43	0	3,577	4,144	4,492	4,921	5,399	5,197	1,816	2,042	2,238	2,493	2,794	2,695	1,761	2,102	2,254	2,428	2,605	2,502
Sandal SubD	15,317	1,188	60	17	1,364	54	3	4,447	4,457	4,914	5,056	6,126	6,521	2,110	2,127	2,444	2,440	3,097	3,212	2,337	2,330	2,470	2,616	3,029	3,309
Stanley SubD	4,345	1,270	74	7	1,397	77	17	3,260	3,769	4,620	5,047	6,625	7,257	1,560	1,821	2,303	2,507	3,334	3,667	1,700	1,948	2,317	2,540	3,291	3,590
Wakefield SubD	630	2,921	229	48	3,274	268	16	8,131	8,593	10,764	12,232	14,754	16,989	3,701	3,985	5,089	5,786	7,303	8,436	4,430	4,608	5,675	6,446	7,451	8,553
Horbury SubD	1,183	538	63	2	606	22	2	2,101	2,356	2,475	2,400	2,683	2,803	1,082	1,167	1,220	1,192	1,316	1,334	1,019	1,189	1,255	1,208	1,367	1,469
Alverthorpe SubD	3,153	1,199	81	25	1,296	83	6	3,105	3,756	4,448	4,859	5,930	6,068	1,545	1,841	2,227	2,422	3,025	2,977	1,560	1,915	2,221	2,437	2,905	3,091
Ardsley SubD	4,414	490	62	1	488	46	2	1,773	2,210	2,427	2,365	2,392	2,350	927	1,137	1,219	1,242	1,238	1,192	846	1,073	1,208	1,123	1,154	1,158
Oulton SubD	1,278	362	13	9	390	15	1	1,223	1,267	1,526	1,496	1,789	1,771	615	648	770	702	870	818	608	619	756	794	919	953

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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.