Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

1831 Census of Great Britain, Abstract of answers (Sample Report Title: Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof." Enumeration Abstract.), Table [1] : " Population Abstract".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area	Houses				Occupations			Persons				Agriculture			Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16]	Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17]	Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18]	Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	Male Servants		Female Servants [23]
	English Statute Acres [1]	Inhabited [2]	Families [3]	Building [4]	Uninhabited [5]	Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6]	Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7]	All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8]	Males [9]	Females [10]	Total of Persons [11]	Males Twenty Years of Age [12]	Occupiers employing Labourers. [13]	Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14]	Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Macclesfield Hundred Total	150,440	26,385	28,194	203	1,317	3,173	20,838	4,183	71,038	75,440	146,478	33,722	886	1,221	2,827	11,557	9,130	780	5,869	1,208	244	131	2,164
Rostherne CP/Tn/AP	20,430	666	699	3	8	435	145	119	1,893	1,850	3,743	925	87	95	371	0	135	12	113	98	14	18	199
Alderley CP/AP	6,240	243	247	0	7	133	59	55	739	599	1,338	361	66	17	168	11	68	7	2	11	11	7	74
Astbury AP/CP	18,070	2,626	2,757	6	85	412	2,057	288	7,184	7,489	14,673	3,329	151	118	397	802	910	98	676	134	43	17	371
Cheadle CP/AP	6,470	1,441	1,580	5	41	202	1,048	330	4,011	4,143	8,154	1,937	52	50	237	591	397	62	445	87	16	3	115
Gawsworth AP/CP	5,480	137	146	0	0	78	24	44	471	376	847	195	30	28	57	5	29	3	25	18	0	0	46
Mottram CP/AP	26,260	2,532	2,863	28	243	212	2,101	550	7,472	8,064	15,536	3,545	53	210	134	1,590	802	70	583	99	4	3	91
Northenden CP/AP	3,910	257	281	1	9	167	93	21	722	698	1,420	363	53	33	142	52	61	11	0	4	7	0	79
Prestbury AP/CP	62,740	8,929	9,249	26	535	1,323	6,904	1,022	22,921	24,336	47,257	11,235	422	458	1,172	3,700	3,338	264	1,418	341	122	81	1,028
Stockport AP/CP	24,810	11,925	12,825	140	439	712	10,085	2,028	32,046	34,564	66,610	14,825	141	313	612	5,295	4,193	341	3,250	598	72	33	622
Taxal AP/CP	5,400	107	110	0	13	54	12	44	288	299	587	147	7	42	17	5	19	0	57	0	0	0	5
Wilmslow AP/CP	7,200	736	815	3	30	230	498	87	2,151	2,145	4,296	1,003	47	54	238	305	206	19	89	48	7	0	77

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

Comments:

1	This transcription also includes sub-parish units, but as they have not been systematically added to the auo they are not included in the material copied into the g_data table.

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.

Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to the following contributors. If you make use of the data in your own work, please follow any instructions given here on acknowledgment and re-use.

David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.