Vision of Britain | 1891 Census: Population tables 2

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]
Wakefield RegD/PLU Total	41,981	17,478	1,382	69	19,563	556	101	89,113	99,704	45,283	50,636	43,830	49,068
Bretton SubD	10,172	1,144	79	1	1,205	84	0	5,812	5,781	2,956	2,967	2,856	2,814
Sandal SubD	15,084	4,452	328	17	5,075	100	26	22,586	26,928	11,767	14,006	10,819	12,922
Stanley SubD	4,674	2,392	286	3	2,780	59	24	13,431	15,576	6,870	7,949	6,561	7,627
Wakefield SubD	803	4,424	348	26	4,667	122	17	22,459	23,315	11,122	11,498	11,337	11,817
Horbury SubD	1,279	1,011	72	1	1,180	44	9	5,050	5,673	2,384	2,669	2,666	3,004
Alverthorpe SubD	3,300	2,105	175	8	2,433	84	14	10,200	11,680	5,170	5,897	5,030	5,783
Ardsley SubD	6,669	1,950	94	13	2,223	63	11	9,575	10,751	5,014	5,650	4,561	5,101

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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.

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