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".

List for top level	County Durham	List for England Dep

click on 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]
County Durham RegC Total		764,788	148,750	12,415	557	170,138	6,970	1,225	875,484	1,024,369	447,980	521,776	427,504	502,593
Darlington RegD/PLU		65,701	9,027	842	16	9,584	497	26	47,676	49,512	23,519	24,042	24,157	25,470
Stockton RegD		82,319	12,487	1,601	70	14,602	533	135	68,252	81,254	35,553	41,765	32,699	39,489
Hartlepool RegD/PLU		21,374	8,525	816	32	11,257	294	88	48,613	66,638	24,868	34,371	23,745	32,267
Auckland RegD/PLU		64,449	16,260	1,254	21	17,321	530	40	83,572	88,998	43,555	45,684	40,017	43,314
Teesdale RegD/PLU		178,345	4,255	369	12	4,248	343	10	20,777	20,963	10,305	10,511	10,472	10,452
Weardale RegD/PLU		98,356	3,513	490	5	3,417	407	2	17,542	16,087	9,035	8,072	8,507	8,015
Lanchester RegD/PLU		67,202	10,372	491	24	11,766	301	239	57,821	65,434	30,818	34,554	27,003	30,880
Durham RegD/PLU		44,264	11,920	2,172	20	12,945	733	37	64,324	69,592	33,094	35,293	31,230	34,299
Easington RegD/PLU		38,031	7,270	680	63	8,082	1,086	23	41,098	45,826	21,208	23,666	19,890	22,160
Houghton le Spring RegD/PLU		16,359	6,625	167	10	7,164	177	65	34,145	37,921	17,724	19,529	16,421	18,392
Chester le Street RegD/PLU		34,869	8,484	396	24	9,772	228	91	43,792	50,594	22,866	26,355	20,926	24,239
Sunderland RegD/PLU		11,117	19,796	1,292	110	23,526	1,000	117	139,193	158,793	69,096	78,489	70,097	80,304
South Shields RegD/PLU		16,156	14,040	756	104	17,812	505	231	103,294	141,508	53,077	72,678	50,217	68,830
Gateshead RegD/PLU		26,246	16,176	1,089	46	18,642	336	121	105,385	131,249	53,262	66,767	52,123	64,482

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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