Vision of Britain | 1911 Census: Population tables 2

1911 Census of England and Wales, Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, giving details of Areas, Houses, Families or separate occupiers, and Population:- Registration Areas, Table 5 : " Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911".

Show top level table	Dorset

Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres (Land and Inland Water) [1]	Families or Separate Occupiers		Population				Institutions, Large Establishments, Vessels, etc.
		1901 [2]	1911 [3]	1901	1911			No. [8]	Population [9]
		1901 [2]	1911 [3]	Persons [4]	Persons [5]	Males [6]	Females [7]	No. [8]	Population [9]
Dorset AdmC Total	625,612	45,005	50,598	202,063	223,266	110,805	112,461	484	15,106
Shaftesbury RegD/Inc/PLU	43,088	3,128	3,148	12,955	12,783	6,276	6,507	14	308
Sturminster RegD/PLU	39,342	2,067	2,113	8,804	8,504	4,042	4,462	7	138
Blandford RegD/PLU	61,958	2,942	3,007	12,457	12,246	6,090	6,156	17	-9
Wimborne and Cranborne RegD/PLU	81,533	4,008	4,542	17,110	18,675	9,143	9,532	24	286
Poole RegD/PLU	25,326	7,106	10,179	32,337	45,190	20,795	24,395	75	1,344
Wareham and Purbeck RegD/PLU	92,492	3,771	4,182	16,001	17,258	8,273	8,985	25	436
Weymouth RegD/PLU	33,223	8,274	9,326	42,926	47,733	26,724	21,009	248	9,064
Sherborne RegD/PLU	38,411	2,572	2,683	11,485	11,871	5,548	6,323	19	572
Beaminster RegD/PLU	58,693	2,206	2,250	9,184	9,213	4,587	4,626	6	169
Bridport RegD/PLU	32,836	3,128	3,244	12,708	12,650	5,863	6,787	16	277

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

Rate	Date
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1911
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1911

Notes:

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

1	Registration Districts are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions or Parishes of the same names with the exception of the Registration Districts of [details depend on Division].
2	Where the name of the Administrative County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the Registration County, the name of the former is added in italics in Column 1; the differences between Registration Counties and Administrative Counties are shown in Table 7.
3	In all Counties, Districts, Sub-Districts and Civil Parishes marked + changes were made in boundaries between the Census of 1901 and that of 1911.
4	The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are localities having no defined boundaries such as hamlets, villages, &c. In many cases names applied to localities serve also as the names of Ecclesiastical Parishes, Wards, &c. In many cases of alterations of boundary between the Census of 1901 and 1911, the figures both for 1901 and 1911 relate to the new areas. Particulars of alterations in Registration Districts are given in Table 6, and of alterations in Civil Parishes in Table 13, Vol. I. For particulars of alterations in Registration Sub-Districts reference should be made to the Registrar-General's Annual Reports.
5	The figures in Column 11 represent the population enumerated:- In Military and Naval Barracks, Hospitals, Lunatic Asylums, Prisons, and Certified Reformatory and Industrial Schools (see Tables 17 and 20, Vol. I). In other Establishments, including private households, of which the number of inmates exceeded 15. On board Vessels (see Table 21, Vol. I). In Barns, Sheds, Caravans, &c., or in the Open Air (see Table 22, Vol. I).
6	The figures in Columns 4, 5 and 10 correspond to the total number of schedules collected. If the entries in Columns 10 and 11 be deducted from those in Columns 5 and 7 respectively, the resultant figures, relating, as they do, exclusively to families each containing no more than 15 persons may be taken as a rough indication of the number of private families and of persons comprising such families. A closer approximation to the number of private families in the larger areas will be found in the Tables relating to Tenements, to be published in a later volume.
7	In the Report on the Census of 1901, the corresponding Table is numbered 12 in the several County Volumes.

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.