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]
Halifax AP/CP Total		999	7,896	448	140	9,112	678	58	37,208	42,633	17,559	19,952	19,649	22,681
Wadsworth Tn/CP		11,224	1,013	94	8	1,097	85	27	4,373	4,707	2,073	2,229	2,300	2,478
Erringden CP/Tn		3,012	386	50	0	412	55	0	1,724	1,865	862	901	862	964
Heptonstall Tn/CP		5,394	848	114	4	956	106	4	3,595	4,047	1,749	1,943	1,846	2,104
Stansfield CP/Tn		6,331	1,994	118	21	2,333	327	11	8,977	10,608	4,351	5,106	4,626	5,502
Langfield CP/Tn		2,784	944	29	13	1,117	68	9	4,321	5,063	2,040	2,437	2,281	2,626
Fixby CP/Tn		935	90	3	0	96	6	0	469	503	230	250	239	253
Rastrick CP/Ch		1,371	1,283	132	7	1,736	176	5	5,896	8,039	2,846	3,861	3,050	4,178
Hipperholme With Brighouse CP/Tn		2,598	2,095	149	12	2,629	190	24	9,871	12,660	4,810	6,032	5,061	6,628
Southowram CP/Tn		2,546	1,757	85	20	1,876	143	22	8,210	8,813	3,923	4,276	4,287	4,537
Skircoat CP/Tn		1,330	2,078	107	56	2,412	176	32	10,062	11,405	4,735	5,243	5,327	6,162
Elland With Greetland CP/Tn		3,448	2,259	71	7	2,767	136	36	10,546	13,007	5,167	6,180	5,379	6,827
Stainland With Old Lindley CP/Tn		2,335	1,005	75	1	1,080	37	15	4,724	4,933	2,273	2,343	2,451	2,590
Barkisland CP/Tn		2,421	436	54	2	423	68	0	2,056	2,102	984	989	1,072	1,113
Rishworth CP/Tn		6,548	229	28	3	216	42	0	1,143	1,110	585	563	558	547
Soyland CP/Tn		4,270	670	74	6	731	51	20	3,264	3,467	1,586	1,666	1,678	1,801
Sowerby CP/Tn		6,894	1,981	159	9	2,103	195	3	9,211	9,462	4,443	4,557	4,768	4,905
Norland CP/Tn		1,273	428	34	0	418	64	0	1,906	1,988	932	966	974	1,022
Warley CP/Tn		4,025	1,671	124	35	1,839	214	2	7,682	8,365	3,729	3,977	3,953	4,388
Midgley CP/Tn		2,629	689	40	1	685	91	6	3,192	3,084	1,504	1,431	1,688	1,653
Ovenden CP/Tn		5,350	2,631	282	43	2,916	351	7	11,698	12,874	5,781	6,232	5,917	6,642
Northowram CP/Tn		3,520	4,401	260	33	4,516	461	8	20,094	20,218	9,783	9,762	10,311	10,456
Shelf CP/Tn		1,302	693	60	3	664	89	4	3,091	2,754	1,529	1,282	1,562	1,472

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Halifax AP/CP:

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.

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