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]
Salford Hundred Total	212,170	75,565	83,901	608	3,468	5,685	64,082	14,134	211,337	218,265	429,602	100,023	1,220	2,434	4,980	44,843	19,106	4,417	19,654	2,665	704	259	6,598
Bury CP/AP/Tn	22,600	8,145	8,966	113	332	595	6,519	1,852	23,703	24,126	47,829	10,918	97	356	369	4,952	2,417	207	2,073	394	53	15	395
Ashton under Lyne CP/AP	9,300	5,960	6,408	65	323	115	6,233	60	16,481	17,116	33,597	7,821	24	98	57	204	1,452	171	5,614	187	14	13	251
Bolton le Moors CP/AP	31,390	10,866	12,262	90	563	638	10,042	1,582	31,282	31,752	63,034	14,933	133	434	456	8,311	2,722	363	2,116	326	72	45	661
Deane CP/AP/Ch	19,340	3,978	4,458	27	135	476	3,029	953	11,522	11,472	22,994	5,444	135	258	405	1,975	744	100	1,669	131	27	14	193
Eccles AP/CP	20,240	4,787	5,464	20	138	754	3,496	1,214	13,844	14,239	28,083	6,733	154	85	888	2,631	1,127	281	1,273	190	104	19	605
Flixton AP/CP	2,710	342	362	3	6	95	253	14	1,037	1,062	2,099	482	62	12	91	247	61	5	0	3	1	0	44
Manchester AP/CP	33,040	38,459	48,307	212	1,433	1,332	35,541	11,434	109,853	120,324	230,177	56,322	336	196	1,498	19,452	18,684	4,395	9,322	1,929	510	217	6,172
Middleton AP/CP	11,510	2,468	2,773	19	145	342	2,196	235	7,233	7,146	14,379	3,254	67	151	295	1,896	407	90	290	33	25	0	94
Prestwich CP/AP	21,160	11,887	13,298	62	540	549	10,583	2,166	33,582	33,997	67,579	15,665	110	256	566	9,508	2,823	316	1,674	324	88	27	472
Radcliffe AP/CP	2,880	670	818	0	12	78	456	284	1,914	1,990	3,904	909	13	37	56	487	170	23	108	10	5	0	28
Rochdale CP/AP	58,620	13,141	14,082	65	989	862	11,122	2,098	37,155	37,272	74,427	17,236	82	676	387	9,867	3,226	569	1,902	489	38	14	729
Wigan CP/Tn/AP	27,610	8,032	8,426	9	471	584	6,155	1,687	21,654	22,832	44,486	10,080	256	281	560	3,930	2,716	247	1,553	445	92	56	610
Salford Ch/CP	1,220	7,206	8,504	27	271	45	7,742	717	19,475	21,311	40,786	10,192	5	1	77	3,535	3,670	816	1,605	440	43	10	1,007

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Salford 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.

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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.