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".

List for top level	Somerden	List for Kent AncC

click on 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]
Somerden Hundred Total	13,650	567	734	10	12	493	160	81	2,078	1,846	3,924	1,012	112	26	521	0	245	18	20	43	27	1	178
Speldhurst AP/CP	3,650	414	466	3	14	166	169	131	1,240	1,400	2,640	667	23	11	199	0	266	70	45	40	13	10	255
Chevening AP/CP	3,550	156	176	5	0	91	50	35	463	438	901	250	10	0	132	0	58	4	24	14	8	3	39
Leigh AP/CP	3,840	153	177	2	3	107	41	29	517	494	1,011	256	19	2	144	0	48	6	12	17	8	1	35
Chiddingstone AP/CP	3,200	189	239	0	2	181	49	9	645	578	1,223	292	49	9	161	0	65	2	0	0	6	0	44
Cowden CP/AP	3,170	82	135	0	2	85	29	21	359	330	689	178	19	2	98	0	47	3	1	6	2	1	43
Hever CP/AP	2,680	73	102	1	3	71	18	13	304	255	559	149	18	8	91	0	14	3	7	7	1	0	23
Penshurst CP/AP	4,600	223	258	9	5	156	64	38	770	683	1,453	393	26	7	171	0	119	10	12	30	18	0	68

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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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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.

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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.