1881 Census of England and Wales, Tables: Area, Houses and Population in Registration Counties, Table 4 : " Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881".

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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
			1871			1881			Persons		Males		Females
			Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Inhabited [5]	Uninhabited [6]	Building [7]	1871 [8]	1881 [9]	1871 [10]	1881 [11]	1871 [12]	1881 [13]
Swaffham SubD Total		81,200	2,966	132	3	2,904	137	4	13,608	12,859	6,733	6,294	6,875	6,565
Narborough CP/AP		3,545	86	3	0	88	2	0	431	435	211	217	220	218
Narford CP/AP		2,396	27	0	0	29	0	0	134	141	68	74	66	67
South Acre CP/AP		2,492	16	1	0	19	0	0	92	73	46	35	46	38
Newton By Castle Acre AP/CP		1,058	16	0	0	16	0	0	75	68	35	32	40	36
Swaffham AP/CP		7,550	822	18	0	821	24	2	3,700	3,643	1,771	1,701	1,929	1,942
Cockley Cley AP/CP		4,312	56	2	1	50	3	0	255	207	131	101	124	106
Shingham AP/CP		935	12	2	0	14	0	0	78	71	38	39	40	32
Beechamwell CP/AP		3,730	71	0	0	64	6	0	376	313	184	156	192	157
Caldecote AP/CP		930	6	0	0	9	0	0	39	49	19	21	20	28
Oxborough CP/AP		2,518	56	1	1	51	2	0	234	228	111	116	123	112
Gooderstone CP/AP		2,781	122	7	0	106	17	0	530	487	256	245	274	242
Foulden CP/AP		3,395	97	8	0	98	8	0	490	459	250	226	240	233
Didlington AP/CP		1,854	17	1	1	21	0	0	104	95	46	46	58	49
Colveston CP/AP		861	7	3	0	11	0	0	36	44	21	21	15	23
Hilborough AP/CP		3,101	72	2	0	74	0	0	330	337	180	173	150	164
Bodney AP/CP		2,605	20	0	0	22	1	2	109	103	57	59	52	44
Little Cressingham CP/AP		1,826	55	0	0	48	1	0	249	207	125	110	124	97
Great Cressingham AP/CP		2,424	111	3	0	106	4	0	533	464	265	228	268	236
South Pickenham CP/AP		1,830	33	0	0	33	2	0	162	175	79	91	83	84
Houghton on the Hill CP/AP		601	10	0	0	10	0	0	38	48	18	25	20	23
North Pickenham AP/CP		1,590	69	3	0	69	3	0	305	246	154	127	151	119
Sporle With Palgrave CP/AP		3,817	168	19	0	169	10	0	739	729	348	342	391	387
Necton CP/AP		3,748	202	12	0	188	15	0	868	793	439	374	429	419
West Bradenham AP/CP		1,682	83	6	0	75	0	0	326	305	155	145	171	160
East Bradenham CP/AP		2,340	83	5	0	78	5	0	386	326	188	168	198	158
Holme Hale CP/AP		2,601	105	12	0	92	13	0	437	411	218	200	219	211
Ashill AP/CP		2,990	154	6	0	156	7	0	721	656	365	329	356	327
Saham Toney CP/AP		4,048	279	14	0	276	14	0	1,274	1,212	651	608	623	604
Threxton CP/AP		1,097	13	1	0	16	0	0	62	80	31	40	31	40
Stanford CP/AP		2,608	35	1	0	30	0	0	193	169	98	90	95	79
Langford CP/AP		1,405	9	2	0	10	0	0	53	54	35	30	18	24
Ickburgh AP/CP		1,599	40	0	0	42	0	0	185	182	101	100	84	82
Buckenham Tofts CP/AP		931	14	0	0	13	0	0	64	49	39	25	25	24

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1881
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1881
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1881

Notes:

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

1	Where the name of the Registration County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the County Proper to which it belongs, the name of the latter is stated in italics.
2	(W) or (W S) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, and has been included in the return; (w) or (w s) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School not belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, but has been included in the return. A statement of the number of persons in the principal Public Institutions in each district will be found in Table 6.
3	The AREAS which have been supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department are printed in Script type (e.g. Chessington 1250, sub-district 30 : 2). Those printed in French type (e.g. Charnham Street (Wilts) 2490, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Tithe Commissioners, and those printed in Arabic type (e.g. Baydon (Wilts) 3060, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Mr. Rickman, in the Enumeration Abstract for 1831. In these latter cases a more accurate estimate of the area is not at present procurable.
4	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 8.
5	Persons who, on the night of the 3rd April 1881, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included among the general population.
6	In cases where detached parts of parishes have been transferred by Local Government Board Orders under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61, the houses and population for 1871 have been corrected, that the figures may be compatible with those for 1881.

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