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]
Southampton Borough Total	1,970	3,189	4,059	118	195	17	1,738	2,304	8,645	10,679	19,324	4,416	8	0	47	1	2,396	377	961	453	173	30	1,423
South Stoneham AP/CP	8,260	563	577	5	20	228	164	185	1,392	1,345	2,737	764	28	18	245	0	186	29	135	85	38	6	111
Southampton All Saints AP/CP	1,970	877	982	47	52	9	354	619	2,208	3,352	5,560	1,176	3	0	27	0	635	139	161	97	114	24	818
Southampton Holy Rood CP/AP	-	278	356	0	18	1	201	154	819	953	1,772	469	0	0	1	0	237	27	79	114	11	2	163
Southampton St John CP/AP	-	107	169	0	3	0	57	112	306	354	660	159	0	0	0	0	82	8	52	15	2	1	26
Southampton St Lawrence CP/AP	-	53	73	0	3	0	50	23	164	242	406	96	0	0	0	0	79	4	0	10	3	1	80
Southampton St Mary AP/CP	-	1,484	1,938	66	90	1	836	1,101	4,026	4,494	8,520	1,898	1	0	1	1	1,075	163	472	164	21	0	205
Southampton St Michael CP/AP	-	267	408	4	23	0	205	203	799	953	1,752	443	0	0	0	0	249	23	125	39	7	0	79

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

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.