Vision of Britain | 1851 Census: General

1851 Census of Ireland, The Census of Ireland for the Year 1851. Part VI. General Report., Table 1 : " General Table.".

Show top level table	Belfast	Show Antrim IrlC table

Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	AREA in Statute Acres. [1]	Persons									Houses								Families					Occupations																													Education
		Males				Females				TOTAL NUMBER OF MALES AND FEMALES. [10]	Inhabited					UNINHABITED.		TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSES. [18]	Residing in				TOTAL NUMBER OF FAMILIES. [23]	Families, classified according to their							Persons (Fifteen Years old and upwards)																						Persons (Five Years old and upwards)
		Heads of Families and their Children. [2]	Visitors. [3]	Servants. [4]	TOTAL NUMBER OF MALES. [5]	Heads of Families and their Children. [6]	Visitors. [7]	Servants. [8]	TOTAL NUMBER OF FEMALES. [9]		1st Class. [11]	2nd Class. [12]	3rd Class. [13]	4th Class. [14]	TOTAL INHABITED. [15]	Built. [16]	Building. [17]		1st Class Houses. [19]	2nd Class Houses. [20]	3rd Class Houses. [21]	4th Class Houses. [22]		Pursuits, as chiefly employed in			Means, as chiefly dependent on				Classified as ministering to Physical Wants										Classified as ministering to Moral Wants						Unclassified		TOTAL		Number not having specified Occupations		Who can Read and Write		Who can Read only		Who can neither Read nor Write
																								Agriculture. [24]	Manufactures, Trade, &c. [25]	Other pursuits. [26]	Vested means, Professions, &c. [27]	The direction of labour. [28]	Their own manual labour. [29]	Means not specified. [30]	Food		Clothing		Lodging, &c		Health		Charity		Justice		Education		Religion		Male. [47]	Female. [48]	Male. [49]	Female. [50]	Male. [51]	Female. [52]	Male. [53]	Female. [54]	Male. [55]	Female. [56]	Male. [57]	Female. [58]
																								Agriculture. [24]	Manufactures, Trade, &c. [25]	Other pursuits. [26]	Vested means, Professions, &c. [27]	The direction of labour. [28]	Their own manual labour. [29]	Means not specified. [30]	Male. [31]	Female. [32]	Male. [33]	Female. [34]	Male. [35]	Female. [36]	Male. [37]	Female. [38]	Male. [39]	Female. [40]	Male. [41]	Female. [42]	Male. [43]	Female. [44]	Male. [45]	Female. [46]	Male. [47]	Female. [48]	Male. [49]	Female. [50]	Male. [51]	Female. [52]	Male. [53]	Female. [54]	Male. [55]	Female. [56]	Male. [57]	Female. [58]
Belfast IrlCorpTown Total	1,872	38,093	7,332	1,423	46,848	42,512	7,386	3,555	53,453	100,301	1,432	11,681	686	3	13,802	1,131	72	15,005	1,861	17,655	793	3	20,312	800	12,953	6,559	821	5,070	13,250	1,171	3,280	454	6,286	10,491	7,621	241	147	34	6	8	407	0	142	175	88	2	9,126	4,364	27,103	15,769	2,569	20,481	24,539	19,304	9,212	17,458	7,184	10,840
Shankill IrlPar	19,559	38,933	6,053	1,595	46,581	43,517	6,285	3,833	53,635	100,216	1,490	11,772	1,091	13	14,366	1,224	77	15,667	1,919	17,461	1,246	15	20,641	1,142	12,892	6,607	899	5,361	13,266	1,115	3,718	495	6,278	10,594	7,317	207	146	47	6	10	409	0	146	171	88	4	9,112	4,470	27,220	15,998	2,315	20,398	24,814	19,820	9,047	17,546	6,822	10,445
Knockbreda IrlPar	8,675	4,718	555	216	5,489	5,121	521	356	5,998	11,487	101	1,216	434	20	1,771	120	0	1,891	113	1,736	458	21	2,328	710	1,118	500	47	329	1,834	118	1,153	105	968	1,219	656	38	8	0	1	0	41	0	14	12	14	0	290	340	3,145	1,714	252	2,208	2,888	2,203	1,123	2,089	750	1,025
Holywood IrlPar	8,064	1,663	155	142	1,960	1,838	258	261	2,357	4,317	77	381	318	14	790	119	12	921	79	415	341	14	849	377	234	238	70	309	458	12	691	87	105	294	110	3	5	0	0	0	26	0	9	13	7	1	171	296	1,124	694	101	913	1,160	1,184	420	728	146	212

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

Rate	Date
% Class 4 (1 Room Mud Huts)	1851
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1851
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1851

Comments:

1	Parishes were often divided between different Baronies, and Baronies were sometimes divided between different Counties, but this reconstruction always lists the totals for whole Parishes or Baronies. The original table also sometimes lists separate counts for 'Towns' and the remainders of Parishes, but here again we list only Parish totals.
2	The totals for Baronies, Counties etc include counts for persons in "Public Institutions", who were separately listed in the original table, and are not included within the parish counts.

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.