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	Blackheath	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]
Blackheath Hundred Total	12,650	2,760	3,179	66	194	602	597	1,980	6,688	8,993	15,681	3,298	61	15	718	0	788	483	580	369	284	102	1,217
Charlton Next Woolwich CP/AP	1,250	403	467	7	21	61	95	311	924	1,403	2,327	441	10	7	75	0	101	135	39	22	52	7	283
Eltham St John the Baptist AP/CP	4,230	350	424	4	10	169	103	152	919	1,086	2,005	511	14	0	201	0	119	53	65	16	43	15	142
Chislehurst CP/AP	4,050	320	366	2	6	165	95	106	1,000	944	1,944	482	14	3	232	0	116	48	48	5	16	9	123
Kidbrooke CP/AP/ParLib	480	50	54	4	2	12	3	39	184	274	458	62	2	2	11	0	3	36	0	1	7	5	92
Lee CP/AP	1,470	221	265	9	26	12	21	232	468	640	1,108	218	4	2	24	0	87	41	27	10	23	5	86
Lewisham CP/AP	5,220	1,716	1,949	42	135	340	373	1,236	4,131	5,528	9,659	2,026	24	4	394	0	476	208	449	318	153	69	600
Deptford St Nicholas CP/AP	1,060	1,430	1,516	12	233	8	792	716	2,784	3,252	6,036	1,393	1	3	7	31	666	31	508	127	19	4	83
Deptford St Paul ParPart/CP	640	3,255	3,651	83	336	164	1,550	1,937	7,140	8,174	15,314	3,827	22	11	165	23	1,719	368	975	507	37	12	410
Greenwich AP/CP	2,030	3,665	4,839	57	245	58	454	4,327	12,800	11,753	24,553	7,443	20	80	66	108	711	179	161	6,017	101	49	722
Woolwich Vest/CP/AP	840	2,672	4,343	18	219	30	1,208	3,105	7,593	10,068	17,661	3,444	2	8	39	0	1,755	257	923	348	112	27	696

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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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.