Vision of Britain | 1881 Census: Population tables 2

1881 Census of England and Wales, Tables: Area, Houses and Population in Registration Counties, Table 4 : " Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
		1871			1881			Persons		Males		Females
		Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Inhabited [5]	Uninhabited [6]	Building [7]	1871 [8]	1881 [9]	1871 [10]	1881 [11]	1871 [12]	1881 [13]
Glamorgan RegC Total	576,426	74,638	3,662	636	93,610	7,212	811	405,798	518,383	209,616	266,128	196,182	252,255
Cardiff RegD/PLU	79,662	11,955	551	251	16,536	1,119	305	76,701	106,164	39,962	54,128	36,739	52,036
Pontypridd RegD/PLU	74,314	9,696	357	97	16,446	1,048	219	51,921	93,493	27,905	50,675	24,016	42,818
Merthyr Tidvil RegD/PLU	75,735	19,828	968	94	20,008	2,156	52	104,239	101,441	55,001	52,430	49,238	49,011
Bridgend and Cowbridge RegD/PLU	107,984	6,250	355	29	7,406	729	10	31,671	38,920	16,181	20,054	15,490	18,866
Neath RegD/PLU	108,984	8,465	596	37	10,013	784	31	44,063	52,077	22,130	26,219	21,933	25,858
Pontardawe RegD/PLU	56,922	3,475	217	15	3,994	347	11	17,488	20,185	8,742	10,116	8,746	10,069
Swansea RegD/PLU	32,086	12,989	527	103	16,945	847	176	70,425	95,001	35,201	47,207	35,224	47,794
Gower RegD/PLU	40,739	1,980	91	10	2,262	182	7	9,290	11,102	4,494	5,299	4,796	5,803

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1881
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1881
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1881

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	Where the name of the Registration County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the County Proper to which it belongs, the name of the latter is stated in italics.
2	(W) or (W S) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, and has been included in the return; (w) or (w s) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School not belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, but has been included in the return. A statement of the number of persons in the principal Public Institutions in each district will be found in Table 6.
3	The AREAS which have been supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department are printed in Script type (e.g. Chessington 1250, sub-district 30 : 2). Those printed in French type (e.g. Charnham Street (Wilts) 2490, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Tithe Commissioners, and those printed in Arabic type (e.g. Baydon (Wilts) 3060, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Mr. Rickman, in the Enumeration Abstract for 1831. In these latter cases a more accurate estimate of the area is not at present procurable.
4	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 8.
5	Persons who, on the night of the 3rd April 1881, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included among the general population.
6	In cases where detached parts of parishes have been transferred by Local Government Board Orders under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61, the houses and population for 1871 have been corrected, that the figures may be compatible with those for 1881.

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.