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".

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Click on the 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]
Cosford Hundred Total	30,640	1,917	2,157	2	51	1,146	600	411	5,229	5,260	10,489	2,564	186	13	1,241	15	628	68	169	207	37	16	318
Boxford CP/AP	2,450	220	232	2	4	108	69	55	553	535	1,088	288	14	0	136	0	95	7	20	15	1	4	35
Aldham AP/CP	2,170	32	53	0	0	40	8	5	159	159	318	71	8	0	45	0	11	0	0	7	0	0	9
Bildeston CP/AP	1,420	182	196	0	9	57	94	45	406	430	836	205	7	2	58	0	104	11	10	9	4	5	28
Brettenham AP/CP	1,550	79	79	0	0	48	12	19	184	182	366	95	12	0	57	0	15	2	3	3	3	0	11
Chelsworth AP/CP	610	45	67	0	0	26	19	22	171	175	346	73	4	0	34	0	20	3	2	3	7	0	19
Elmsett CP/AP	1,810	49	84	0	0	61	15	8	228	209	437	113	13	0	73	2	17	4	0	4	0	1	11
Hadleigh AP/CP	3,440	662	713	2	29	207	332	174	1,650	1,775	3,425	795	20	6	206	13	332	35	86	93	4	3	107
Hitcham AP/CP	4,040	202	225	0	6	159	16	50	520	502	1,022	258	28	0	168	0	26	1	22	10	3	0	17
Kersey AP/CP	1,630	137	140	0	2	104	30	6	339	361	700	180	14	0	115	0	29	0	22	0	0	0	13
Kettlebaston AP/CP	960	38	41	0	0	40	1	0	90	112	202	42	5	0	33	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
Layham AP/CP	2,290	121	135	0	5	85	30	20	276	276	552	153	12	2	98	0	24	3	2	4	8	2	24
Lindsey AP/CP	1,850	31	49	0	0	40	5	4	127	123	250	66	7	0	48	0	8	0	3	0	0	0	10
Naughton AP/CP	830	28	32	0	0	25	3	4	110	77	187	43	6	1	29	0	6	1	0	0	0	1	8
Nedging CP/AP	810	39	40	0	0	30	4	6	116	98	214	56	4	0	40	0	7	2	0	2	1	0	9
Semer AP/CP	1,560	51	58	0	0	38	7	13	147	128	275	69	6	1	44	0	9	3	1	3	2	1	11
Thorpe Morieux AP/CP	2,490	81	86	0	0	72	8	6	221	191	412	103	20	0	73	0	6	1	0	0	3	2	18
Wattisham CP/AP	1,030	28	42	0	0	38	3	1	97	105	202	50	7	0	39	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	5
Whatfield CP/AP	1,540	65	71	0	0	54	4	13	193	184	377	86	8	1	59	0	5	1	0	10	2	1	11

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

Comments:

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.

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.