1891 Census of Scotland, Population of Scotland with Report: Report with Appendices, Population of various types of areas, Houses, Table 1 : " Scotland in Civil Counties and Parishes, showing the Acreage, the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of Persons of each Sex; the number of Persons speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English; the number of Rooms with Windows; and the number of Persons temporarily absent or present in each Parish or Sub-division thereof on the 5th April 1891. For comparison there is added the number of Families, Persons of each Sex, Houses, and Rooms with Windows in 1881".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in Acres. [1]	1891																1881
			Separate Families. [2]	HOUSES			POPULATION			Persons Speaking Gaelic only. [9]	Persons Speaking Gaelic and English. [10]	Rooms with one or more Windows. [11]	Temporarily Absent			Temporarily Present			Separate Families. [18]	HOUSES			POPULATION			Persons Speaking Gaelic. [25]	Rooms with one or more Windows. [26]
				Inhabited. [3]	Uninhabited. [4]	Building. [5]	Males. [6]	Females. [7]	Total. [8]				Males. [12]	Females. [13]	Total. [14]	Males. [15]	Females. [16]	Total. [17]		Inhabited. [19]	Uninhabited. [20]	Building. [21]	Males. [22]	Females. [23]	Total. [24]
Scotland Country Total		19,062,482	876,089	817,568	51,460	5,618	1,942,717	2,082,930	4,025,647	43,738	210,677	2,649,186	13,620	10,688	24,308	15,456	14,122	29,578	812,712	739,005	59,697	4,990	1,799,475	1,936,098	3,735,573	231,594	2,343,149
Shetland County		352,889	6,304	5,564	340	8	12,190	16,521	28,711	0	67	14,138	393	40	433	362	86	448	6,183	5,444	271	19	12,656	17,049	29,705	12	12,251
Orkney County		240,476	7,182	6,409	235	16	14,298	16,155	30,453	0	88	19,810	99	64	163	102	72	174	7,270	6,378	208	34	14,982	17,062	32,044	36	18,184
Caithness County		438,878	8,414	7,444	271	28	17,472	19,705	37,177	76	4,068	25,438	97	45	142	47	51	98	8,731	7,861	261	51	18,391	20,474	38,865	3,422	23,844
Sutherland County		1,297,849	5,109	4,713	202	24	10,395	11,501	21,896	1,115	14,786	18,570	60	49	109	129	86	215	5,220	4,840	166	29	11,219	12,151	23,370	17,600	17,242
Ross and Cromarty County		1,970,004	17,595	15,848	619	68	36,862	40,948	77,810	18,577	37,437	56,400	817	294	1,111	624	412	1,036	17,524	15,665	572	82	37,027	41,520	78,547	56,086	51,475
Inverness Shire County		2,616,545	19,836	18,497	736	65	43,154	46,163	89,317	17,276	44,084	69,259	496	243	739	1,037	345	1,382	19,836	17,215	562	116	43,852	46,602	90,454	64,041	63,097
Nairnshire County		124,968	2,304	2,099	129	10	4,683	5,336	10,019	53	2,487	9,680	36	45	81	50	48	98	2,368	2,094	87	19	4,979	5,476	10,455	1,980	8,578
Moray County		304,606	9,880	8,838	646	36	20,381	23,072	43,453	12	2,263	38,901	152	117	269	141	149	290	9,815	8,611	391	71	20,725	23,063	43,788	1,059	36,948
Banffshire County		410,112	13,748	12,707	512	45	30,748	33,442	64,190	3	639	50,230	459	167	626	123	145	268	13,559	12,568	509	74	29,789	32,947	62,736	331	45,327
Aberdeenshire County		1,251,451	60,551	56,683	3,150	188	133,861	147,471	281,332	8	1,534	211,522	1,468	677	2,145	735	870	1,605	57,398	51,688	1,877	318	128,097	139,893	267,990	607	186,700
Kincardineshire County		245,347	7,819	7,306	641	41	17,604	18,043	35,647	1	116	28,631	121	101	222	110	112	222	7,557	6,748	425	28	16,978	17,486	34,464	15	26,187
Angus County		560,186	64,298	59,682	3,187	377	125,412	152,376	277,788	8	1,462	176,013	571	536	1,107	468	643	1,111	61,538	52,681	3,236	115	120,070	146,251	266,321	590	162,289
Perthshire County		1,617,808	29,865	27,638	2,473	84	59,743	66,441	126,184	304	13,846	117,482	508	613	1,121	1,559	1,001	2,560	30,302	26,729	1,690	150	61,573	67,473	129,046	14,505	109,640
Fife County		314,952	43,028	40,696	3,119	374	89,135	98,211	187,346	6	726	132,176	496	507	1,003	515	571	1,086	39,678	36,854	3,079	199	80,893	91,038	171,931	123	116,099
Kinross Shire County		46,487	1,635	1,518	176	13	2,964	3,316	6,280	0	56	6,054	29	60	89	53	40	93	1,752	1,705	198	8	3,112	3,585	6,697	10	5,836
Clackmannanshire County		30,477	6,195	5,775	235	50	13,678	14,754	28,432	1	215	17,203	110	76	186	127	63	190	5,647	5,290	563	19	12,214	13,466	25,680	95	15,363
Stirlingshire County		286,338	25,960	24,689	1,238	191	63,060	62,548	125,608	2	1,840	76,481	494	265	759	495	408	903	23,656	22,361	1,870	193	56,147	56,296	112,443	497	67,514
Dunbartonshire County		154,542	19,242	18,309	1,056	236	46,930	47,565	94,495	36	3,556	57,540	219	231	450	1,302	469	1,771	15,471	14,235	1,155	177	37,312	38,021	75,333	1,397	45,663
Argyll County		2,056,402	16,676	15,680	2,036	62	36,771	38,232	75,003	6,042	36,720	62,158	519	341	860	873	396	1,269	16,810	15,481	1,460	118	37,895	38,573	76,468	46,503	56,816
Buteshire County		139,432	4,232	4,001	1,373	9	8,211	10,193	18,404	29	3,482	17,346	59	34	93	129	141	270	4,097	3,870	594	23	8,100	9,557	17,657	3,725	15,663
Renfrewshire County		156,785	60,717	58,779	4,417	343	138,261	152,537	290,798	63	8,435	170,030	851	845	1,696	557	830	1,387	54,622	52,703	4,660	414	126,743	136,631	263,374	5,190	145,568
Ayrshire County		722,229	46,989	45,252	3,126	283	110,987	115,296	226,283	14	1,827	136,143	573	642	1,215	919	836	1,755	45,161	41,733	3,316	260	106,819	110,700	217,519	649	122,154
Lanarkshire County		564,284	222,058	208,923	9,899	1,694	523,169	522,871	1,046,040	84	22,887	518,125	2,847	2,639	5,486	2,668	3,614	6,282	193,731	180,259	22,572	963	449,297	455,115	904,412	10,513	442,499
West Lothian County		76,807	10,673	10,173	745	151	27,946	24,862	52,808	2	486	26,888	109	79	188	169	150	319	8,911	8,532	764	73	22,746	20,764	43,510	47	22,293
Midlothian County		231,724	96,393	85,164	5,559	883	205,698	228,461	434,159	19	6,308	327,876	1,087	689	1,776	754	1,088	1,842	85,867	72,581	5,063	937	183,915	205,249	389,164	2,142	276,113
East Lothian County		173,447	8,382	8,005	1,086	26	18,231	19,254	37,485	7	515	30,982	105	146	251	168	144	312	8,508	8,122	948	44	18,806	19,696	38,502	294	29,106
Berwickshire County		294,805	7,205	6,837	743	25	15,444	16,962	32,406	0	89	27,453	111	171	282	131	155	286	7,664	7,103	512	41	16,943	18,449	35,392	30	26,606
Peebles Shire County		226,899	3,165	2,989	278	22	6,913	7,848	14,761	0	70	11,732	44	88	132	90	90	180	2,953	2,696	247	45	6,626	7,196	13,822	3	9,979
Selkirkshire County		164,545	5,859	5,385	152	58	12,743	14,610	27,353	0	73	17,539	40	64	104	54	65	119	5,440	5,082	264	86	12,159	13,405	25,564	11	15,365
Roxburghshire County		425,656	11,700	10,906	704	36	25,010	28,731	53,741	0	177	43,027	199	244	443	192	260	452	11,346	10,389	483	76	25,436	28,006	53,442	25	39,160
Dumfries Shire County		680,217	16,355	15,626	1,144	88	34,885	39,336	74,221	0	201	63,456	164	262	426	374	451	825	16,577	15,635	820	110	36,024	40,116	76,140	17	60,569
Kirkcudbrightshire County		574,588	8,935	8,432	721	47	18,902	21,083	39,985	0	69	38,965	173	181	354	213	176	389	9,265	8,412	488	42	19,807	22,320	42,127	11	38,177
Wigtownshire County		310,747	7,785	7,001	512	37	16,976	19,086	36,062	0	68	31,938	114	133	247	186	155	341	8,255	7,440	386	56	18,143	20,468	38,611	28	30,844

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