1891 Census of England and Wales, Area, Houses and Population: Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts, Table 2 : " Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
			Inhabited				Uninhabited				Building				Persons		Males		Females
			1881 [2]	1881 [3]	1881 [4]	1891 [5]	1891 [6]	1891 [7]	1881 [8]	1891 [9]	1881 [10]	1891 [11]	1881 [12]	1891 [13]
Wiltshire RegC Total		811,367	53,297	3,780	216	55,190	3,837	266	248,466	255,119	122,716	125,696	125,750	129,423
Swindon and Highworth RegD/PLU		54,178	6,863	391	31	8,867	313	130	35,755	47,310	18,600	24,828	17,155	22,482
Cricklade and Wootton Bassett RegD/PLU		46,557	2,612	194	4	2,658	178	1	11,613	11,835	5,786	5,957	5,827	5,878
Malmesbury RegD/PLU		58,520	3,014	197	9	2,958	210	11	13,949	13,167	6,847	6,492	7,102	6,675
Chippenham RegD/PLU		58,967	4,603	251	13	4,723	279	5	21,167	21,668	10,437	10,637	10,730	11,031
Calne RegD/PLU		29,324	1,946	89	3	1,935	99	9	8,664	8,509	4,227	4,128	4,437	4,381
Marlborough RegD/PLU		44,393	1,827	116	3	1,780	130	0	9,588	8,506	5,026	4,165	4,562	4,341
Devizes RegD/PLU		62,762	4,432	298	14	4,283	348	7	20,530	19,744	10,121	9,738	10,409	10,006
Trowbridge and Melksham RegD/PLU		16,360	4,040	449	17	4,198	420	30	18,077	18,565	8,383	8,589	9,694	9,976
Bradford on Avon RegD/PLU		18,674	2,307	186	11	2,303	260	8	10,245	10,351	4,787	4,799	5,458	5,552
Westbury and Whorwellsdown RegD/PLU		31,567	2,521	268	0	2,445	231	13	10,653	10,166	5,160	4,915	5,493	5,251
Warminster RegD/PLU		58,458	3,186	303	8	3,099	227	10	13,837	13,033	6,781	6,320	7,056	6,713
Pewsey RegD/PLU		75,219	2,720	168	6	2,678	150	1	12,403	11,713	6,288	5,941	6,115	5,772
Amesbury RegD/PLU		63,453	1,665	83	2	1,566	132	3	7,559	6,878	3,838	3,502	3,721	3,376
Salisbury RegD/PLU		58,712	5,599	444	67	5,928	436	7	27,521	28,427	13,054	13,181	14,467	15,246
Wilton RegD/PLU		56,205	2,256	123	10	2,219	132	17	10,250	9,894	5,053	5,001	5,197	4,893
Tisbury RegD/PLU		43,562	2,015	89	15	1,956	168	7	9,306	8,597	4,734	4,300	4,572	4,297
Mere RegD/PLU		34,456	1,691	131	3	1,594	124	7	7,349	6,756	3,594	3,203	3,755	3,553

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Wiltshire RegC:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1891
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1891
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1891

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The Registration Districts of this Division are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions, except ...
2	Where the name of a Registration County in which a Parish is situated differs from that of the Administrative County to which it belongs, the name of the latter is added in italics. [further information on special cases in the specific division.]
3	(W) or (W.S.) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the Parish; (w) or (w.s.) that one of these institutions not belonging to the District is situated therein. A statement of the number of persons enumerated in Public Institutions in each District will be found in Table 8.
4	The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are Hamlets, Villages, etc, or localities having no defined boundaries.
5	Under the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876, 1879 and 1882 numerous detached parts of Civil Parishes have been amalgamated with other Civil Parishes, and a statement of such transferences is given in Table 14.
6	Revised areas of Civil Parishes and parts of Parishes have been furnished by the Ordnance Survey Department.
7	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to Parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 11.
8	Persons who, on the night of 5th April, 1891, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going and coastal vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included in the general population. For details see Table 9.

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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