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	County Durham	List for England Dep

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]
County Durham AncC Total	679,530	41,460	54,992	345	1,570	8,558	18,533	27,901	121,748	132,162	253,910	59,045	2,229	1,544	7,556	2,547	19,035	2,871	19,473	3,204	586	427	8,438
Chester Wd	158,060	14,816	19,884	129	621	1,963	6,414	11,507	42,284	46,594	88,878	19,779	538	417	1,895	971	6,650	1,082	6,902	1,176	148	84	2,429
Darlington Wd	282,480	9,203	11,189	50	350	2,759	4,057	4,373	27,978	27,926	55,904	14,077	765	700	2,127	993	3,970	506	4,270	561	185	215	1,950
Easington Wd	77,120	8,010	9,894	130	285	1,214	3,393	5,287	23,279	24,042	47,321	11,265	352	164	1,219	219	3,280	564	4,855	543	69	32	1,506
Stockton Wd	105,860	4,402	4,841	13	127	1,559	1,579	1,703	10,856	11,829	22,685	5,716	421	189	1,312	211	1,836	301	977	381	88	44	1,130
Islandshire AD_PalS	26,820	1,290	1,707	4	69	497	378	832	3,814	4,369	8,183	1,711	59	23	413	9	319	62	741	63	22	17	310
Norhamshire AD_PalS	18,810	707	728	10	39	355	150	223	1,811	1,933	3,744	885	49	12	391	17	170	19	163	54	10	16	189
Durham AD_City	10,260	1,288	2,271	5	30	203	1,180	888	4,547	5,588	10,135	2,375	45	39	183	111	1,161	249	398	127	62	13	668
Sunderland AD_Town/Borough	120	1,744	4,478	4	49	8	1,382	3,088	7,179	9,881	17,060	3,237	0	0	16	16	1,649	88	1,167	299	2	6	256

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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.

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.