1881 Census of Scotland, Population of Scotland with Report: Population of various types of areas, public institutions, Table 1 : " Scotland in Civil Counties and Parishes, showing the Acreage, the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of Persons of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic habitually; the number of Rooms with Windows; and the number of Persons temporarily absent or present in each Parish or Subdivision thereof on the 4th April 1881. For comparison there is added the number of Families, Persons of each Sex, Houses, and Rooms with Windows in 1871".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in Acres. [1]	1881															1871
			Separate Families. [2]	HOUSES			POPULATION			Persons speaking Gaelic. [9]	Rooms with one or more Windows. [10]	TEMPORARILY ABSENT			TEMPORARILY PRESENT			Separate Families. [17]	HOUSES			POPULATION			Rooms with one or more Windows. [24]
				Inhabited. [3]	Uninhabited. [4]	Building. [5]	Males. [6]	Females. [7]	Total. [8]			Males. [11]	Females. [12]	Total. [13]	Males. [14]	Females. [15]	Total. [16]		Inhabited. [18]	Uninhabited. [19]	Building. [20]	Males. [21]	Females. [22]	Total. [23]
Scotland Country Total		19,084,659	812,712	739,005	59,697	4,990	1,799,475	1,936,098	3,735,573	231,594	2,343,149	13,257	9,727	22,984	14,930	15,652	30,582	740,748	412,185	19,223	3,165	1,603,143	1,756,875	3,360,018	1,992,199
Shetland County		352,876	6,183	5,444	271	19	12,656	17,049	29,705	12	12,251	363	57	420	407	113	520	6,506	5,667	178	11	13,103	18,505	31,608	11,417
Orkney County		240,476	7,270	6,378	208	34	14,982	17,062	32,044	36	18,184	84	63	147	191	129	320	7,193	6,288	195	16	14,355	16,919	31,274	16,320
Caithness County		438,878	8,731	7,861	261	51	18,391	20,474	38,865	3,422	23,844	92	48	140	99	109	208	8,825	7,474	203	41	18,937	21,055	39,992	21,715
Sutherland County		1,297,846	5,220	4,840	166	29	11,219	12,151	23,370	17,600	17,242	114	80	194	252	140	392	5,298	4,914	80	41	11,408	12,909	24,317	15,537
Ross and Cromarty County		2,003,065	17,524	15,665	572	82	37,027	41,520	78,547	56,086	51,475	625	240	865	493	340	833	17,961	15,713	436	65	38,050	42,905	80,955	46,892
Inverness Shire County		2,616,498	19,836	17,215	562	116	43,852	46,602	90,454	64,041	63,097	432	315	747	513	401	914	19,398	16,679	428	81	41,104	46,911	88,015	55,238
Nairnshire County		114,400	2,368	2,094	87	19	4,979	5,476	10,455	1,980	8,578	42	50	92	53	59	112	2,354	2,029	89	10	4,786	5,439	10,225	7,679
Moray County		304,606	9,815	8,611	391	71	20,725	23,063	43,788	1,059	36,948	200	167	367	205	226	431	9,784	8,348	395	35	20,067	23,061	43,128	33,857
Banffshire County		410,110	13,559	12,568	509	74	29,789	32,947	62,736	331	45,327	762	292	1,054	217	221	438	13,352	11,603	370	80	29,367	32,656	62,023	40,342
Aberdeenshire County		1,251,451	57,398	51,688	1,877	318	128,097	139,893	267,990	607	186,700	1,355	732	2,087	980	1,141	2,121	53,576	34,589	1,052	256	115,909	128,694	244,603	161,711
Kincardineshire County		245,346	7,557	6,748	425	28	16,978	17,486	34,464	15	26,187	130	89	219	110	132	242	7,808	6,661	385	49	16,784	17,846	34,630	24,939
Angus County		560,087	61,548	52,688	3,236	115	120,091	146,269	266,360	590	162,325	1,036	603	1,639	547	722	1,269	55,154	25,663	1,363	191	106,324	131,243	237,567	137,798
Perthshire County		1,617,808	30,292	26,722	1,690	150	61,552	67,455	129,007	14,505	109,604	544	572	1,116	833	735	1,568	30,646	22,134	1,329	97	60,663	67,105	127,768	100,035
Fife County		314,952	39,678	36,854	3,079	199	80,893	91,038	171,931	123	116,099	490	448	938	511	616	1,127	37,981	27,056	1,857	154	75,127	85,608	160,735	103,576
Kinross Shire County		46,485	1,752	1,705	198	8	3,112	3,585	6,697	10	5,836	28	42	70	47	54	101	1,883	1,517	128	2	3,390	3,808	7,198	6,004
Clackmannanshire County		30,477	5,647	5,290	563	19	12,214	13,466	25,680	95	15,363	92	71	163	56	111	167	5,316	3,316	158	35	11,555	12,192	23,747	13,333
Stirlingshire County		286,338	23,656	22,361	1,870	193	56,147	56,296	112,443	497	67,514	261	272	533	854	756	1,610	21,130	13,275	723	80	48,215	50,003	98,218	56,443
Dunbartonshire County		154,542	15,471	14,235	1,155	177	37,312	38,021	75,333	1,397	45,663	265	223	488	390	398	788	12,396	7,638	425	63	28,857	30,000	58,857	35,231
Argyll County		2,056,400	16,810	15,481	1,460	118	37,895	38,573	76,468	46,503	56,816	396	302	698	683	365	1,048	16,589	13,497	830	77	36,926	38,753	75,679	50,259
Buteshire County		139,440	4,097	3,870	594	23	8,100	9,557	17,657	3,725	15,663	92	54	146	163	128	291	3,946	2,433	152	26	7,623	9,354	16,977	12,882
Renfrewshire County		156,785	54,622	52,703	4,660	414	126,743	136,631	263,374	5,190	145,568	721	582	1,303	766	981	1,747	46,531	13,551	327	181	103,669	113,278	216,947	109,628
Ayrshire County		722,229	45,161	41,733	3,316	260	106,819	110,700	217,519	649	122,154	705	577	1,282	627	787	1,414	42,725	26,798	1,338	151	98,198	102,611	200,809	105,470
Lanarkshire County		564,284	193,731	180,259	22,572	963	449,297	455,115	904,412	10,513	442,499	1,964	1,503	3,467	2,877	3,435	6,312	164,408	47,962	1,946	609	377,874	387,465	765,339	356,420
West Lothian County		76,806	8,911	8,532	764	73	22,746	20,764	43,510	47	22,293	103	103	206	182	140	322	8,556	6,255	533	31	20,855	20,110	40,965	19,930
Midlothian County		231,724	85,867	72,581	5,063	937	183,915	205,249	389,164	2,142	276,113	1,112	808	1,920	1,112	1,665	2,777	73,865	27,856	1,404	442	153,892	174,487	328,379	228,578
East Lothian County		173,298	8,508	8,122	948	44	18,806	19,696	38,502	294	29,106	153	176	329	187	185	372	8,491	7,179	652	57	18,076	19,695	37,771	27,240
Berwickshire County		294,805	7,664	7,103	512	41	16,943	18,449	35,392	30	26,606	126	219	345	178	228	406	7,827	6,491	399	27	17,414	19,072	36,486	24,887
Peebles Shire County		226,899	2,953	2,696	247	45	6,626	7,196	13,822	3	9,979	68	110	178	94	80	174	2,614	2,187	168	14	5,955	6,375	12,330	8,876
Selkirkshire County		164,545	5,440	5,082	264	86	12,159	13,405	25,564	11	15,365	62	77	139	80	100	180	3,870	2,149	59	25	8,946	9,626	18,572	11,174
Roxburghshire County		425,657	11,346	10,389	483	76	25,436	28,006	53,442	25	39,160	169	188	357	302	288	590	10,567	7,421	305	58	23,523	25,884	49,407	33,514
Dumfries Shire County		680,217	16,577	15,635	820	110	36,024	40,116	76,140	17	60,569	315	300	615	516	464	980	16,494	13,646	682	81	34,815	39,993	74,808	53,476
Kirkcudbrightshire County		574,587	9,265	8,412	488	42	19,807	22,320	42,127	11	38,177	216	208	424	221	238	459	9,284	7,457	377	47	19,497	22,362	41,859	33,837
Wigtownshire County		310,742	8,255	7,440	386	56	18,143	20,468	38,611	28	30,844	140	156	296	184	165	349	8,420	6,739	257	32	17,879	20,951	38,830	27,961

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