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]
Edwinstree Hundred Total	38,190	1,782	1,991	2	49	1,164	396	431	4,707	4,530	9,237	2,262	167	36	1,266	0	431	57	99	139	67	27	272
Albury AP/CP	3,200	132	144	0	3	106	15	23	316	315	631	166	6	2	111	0	20	2	2	18	5	0	11
Anstey AP/CP	2,170	82	91	1	8	57	26	8	218	199	417	107	10	1	58	0	23	1	0	12	2	0	10
Aspenden CP/AP	1,620	113	121	0	3	60	20	41	268	282	550	134	6	1	65	0	20	10	21	10	1	0	14
Barkway CP/AP	5,060	214	235	0	4	137	51	47	552	556	1,108	264	27	7	134	0	55	8	3	17	13	8	34
Barley CP/AP	2,700	137	137	0	4	79	41	17	378	326	704	192	11	3	104	0	50	1	8	15	0	0	10
Buckland AP/CP	1,590	80	89	0	0	75	8	6	192	181	373	99	6	0	83	0	8	1	0	0	1	0	11
Little Hadham AP/CP	3,070	123	191	0	1	104	27	60	446	432	878	173	20	7	97	0	3	3	21	20	2	1	22
Much Hadham CP/AP	4,350	241	249	0	4	97	62	90	637	631	1,268	320	27	5	145	0	70	15	16	22	20	8	55
Great Hormead AP/CP	2,160	119	126	0	3	104	19	3	311	265	576	151	11	0	116	0	24	0	0	0	0	0	10
Little Hormead CP/AP	2,160	20	20	0	3	19	0	1	53	54	107	26	4	0	20	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Layston CP/AP	1,580	223	230	1	10	85	83	62	550	543	1,093	266	4	1	106	0	115	9	16	12	3	3	45
Meesden CP/AP	1,030	35	38	0	0	35	2	1	80	78	158	43	9	0	27	0	3	1	0	1	2	0	5
Brent Pelham CP/AP	1,620	51	64	0	5	44	8	12	144	127	271	66	7	4	44	0	9	0	0	2	0	0	4
Furneux Pelham AP/CP	2,570	126	164	0	0	91	20	53	315	304	619	151	14	5	83	0	20	2	9	8	10	7	12
Stocking Pelham AP/CP	640	23	29	0	1	27	2	0	83	75	158	34	3	0	28	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	4
Throcking CP/AP	1,530	15	15	0	0	12	3	0	45	38	83	20	2	0	14	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3
Wyddial CP/AP	1,140	48	48	0	0	32	9	7	119	124	243	50	0	0	31	0	6	3	2	0	8	0	22
Ardeley AP/CP	2,410	112	115	2	1	88	17	10	325	274	599	161	18	2	100	0	17	2	14	6	2	0	18

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Edwinstree 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.

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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.