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]
Chester AD_City/CntyOfIt Total	3,010	4,096	4,628	43	388	355	2,665	1,608	9,635	11,709	21,344	4,797	45	37	524	60	2,641	510	609	236	135	37	1,260
Chester St Mary on the Hill AP/CP	3,020	728	735	0	47	285	321	129	1,768	1,777	3,545	906	50	10	360	0	320	12	73	68	13	9	117
Chester St Oswald AP/CP	5,810	1,011	1,199	26	90	148	739	312	2,808	3,233	6,041	1,372	29	31	197	2	743	65	176	101	28	3	334
Chester Holy Trinity Tn/CP/AP	1,170	599	749	0	52	40	362	347	1,427	1,871	3,298	735	5	0	47	0	337	91	149	60	46	18	238
Chester St Bridget CP/AP	3,010	142	159	0	10	4	67	88	291	456	747	146	2	1	1	2	72	9	51	4	4	0	89
Chester Abbey Precincts CP/ExP	-	71	85	0	4	0	30	55	137	252	389	72	0	0	0	0	31	34	0	0	7	2	94
Chester Castle CP/ExP	-	5	5	0	0	0	0	5	15	17	32	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	0	5
Chester St John the Baptist Tn/CP/AP	-	1,213	1,332	18	130	26	783	523	2,726	3,309	6,035	1,348	3	0	97	56	770	263	108	19	32	4	353
Chester St Martin AP/CP	-	102	108	0	6	1	55	52	213	315	528	107	0	1	2	0	56	20	14	12	2	1	38
Chester St Michael CP/AP	-	126	154	0	11	0	110	44	273	370	643	149	0	0	4	0	113	8	19	3	2	0	42
Chester St Olave AP/CP	-	114	114	0	15	13	70	31	220	236	456	97	0	0	12	0	67	2	15	0	1	1	14
Chester St Peter CP/AP	-	168	184	0	22	0	144	40	377	486	863	198	0	0	0	0	156	9	16	13	4	0	91
Spital Boughton CP/ExP	-	29	29	0	7	11	16	2	61	70	131	31	0	8	3	0	17	1	0	2	0	0	3

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Chester AD_City/CntyOfIt:

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.