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".

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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]
England and Wales Dep Total   37,285,485 Show data context 2,943,787 Show data context 173,246 Show data context 27,447 Show data context 3,281,024 Show data context 153,493 Show data context 26,566 Show data context 8,889,674 Show data context 10,087,768 Show data context 11,988,254 Show data context 13,899,724 Show data context 15,916,388 Show data context 17,927,385 Show data context 4,253,789 Show data context 4,797,086 Show data context 5,838,731 Show data context 6,769,583 Show data context 7,775,263 Show data context 8,780,309 Show data context 4,635,855 Show data context 5,290,996 Show data context 6,149,789 Show data context 7,129,237 Show data context 8,140,809 Show data context 9,145,960 Show data context
England Dep Drill-down 32,058,604 Show data context 2,725,879 Show data context 161,408 Show data context 25,428 Show data context 3,045,423 Show data context 142,913 Show data context 25,008 Show data context 8,287,907 Show data context 9,405,342 Show data context 11,178,050 Show data context 12,976,329 Show data context 14,847,888 Show data context 16,738,495 Show data context 3,968,122 Show data context 4,473,349 Show data context 5,440,352 Show data context 6,314,744 Show data context 7,245,666 Show data context 8,186,031 Show data context 4,320,755 Show data context 4,932,307 Show data context 5,738,024 Show data context 6,660,661 Show data context 7,601,909 Show data context 8,551,852 Show data context
Wales Dep Drill-down 5,226,881 Show data context 217,908 Show data context 11,838 Show data context 2,019 Show data context 235,601 Show data context 10,580 Show data context 1,558 Show data context 601,767 Show data context 682,426 Show data context 810,204 Show data context 923,395 Show data context 1,068,500 Show data context 1,188,890 Show data context 285,667 Show data context 323,737 Show data context 398,379 Show data context 454,839 Show data context 529,597 Show data context 594,278 Show data context 315,100 Show data context 358,689 Show data context 411,765 Show data context 468,576 Show data context 538,900 Show data context 594,108 Show data context

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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.