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".

List for top level	Wales	List for Great Britain Dep

click on 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]
Wales Dep Total	324,310	175,034	186,449	1,467	7,017	78,809	53,328	54,312	444,763	458,654	903,417	221,616	21,376	21,109	60,313	9,511	49,875	6,009	38,744	12,191	2,488	1,301	46,020
Monmouthshire AncC	324,310	18,612	19,911	170	987	5,614	8,626	5,671	51,095	47,035	98,130	26,910	1,648	1,143	4,845	3,293	6,649	805	7,173	1,011	343	122	3,746
Anglesey AncC	-	9,683	10,128	53	276	5,314	2,141	2,673	23,475	24,850	48,325	11,413	1,215	1,536	3,870	120	2,190	252	1,632	471	127	71	2,654
Brecknockshire AncC	-	9,373	9,848	84	540	3,959	2,954	2,935	23,896	23,867	47,763	12,220	1,249	1,156	2,822	551	2,818	351	2,547	522	204	73	2,221
Cardiganshire AncC	-	13,045	13,652	115	324	7,246	3,243	3,163	30,868	33,912	64,780	14,598	2,002	1,931	4,753	248	3,353	414	950	864	83	18	3,892
Carmarthenshire AncC	-	18,920	20,719	186	505	9,987	5,299	5,433	48,683	52,057	100,740	23,361	2,735	3,074	6,940	292	5,586	614	2,713	1,233	174	97	5,648
Caernarvonshire AncC	-	13,221	14,553	119	434	5,778	2,997	5,778	32,168	34,280	66,448	16,709	1,506	2,237	4,360	143	3,235	333	3,520	1,266	109	95	3,566
Denbighshire AncC	-	16,368	17,150	106	832	8,135	4,478	4,537	41,231	42,011	83,242	20,120	2,264	1,624	6,465	235	4,604	533	2,995	1,148	252	180	4,489
Flintshire AncC	-	11,716	12,138	64	541	4,660	3,101	4,377	29,924	30,088	60,012	14,234	1,010	846	4,192	630	2,774	410	3,597	562	213	88	2,613
Glamorgan AncC	-	24,743	26,111	273	1,298	6,814	8,929	10,368	62,855	63,328	126,183	31,824	1,823	1,931	5,192	1,993	7,571	1,008	10,072	1,897	337	112	4,936
Merionethshire AncC	-	6,968	7,358	53	238	3,583	1,815	1,960	17,115	18,121	35,236	8,879	1,112	1,246	2,601	194	1,761	145	738	998	84	47	2,222
Montgomeryshire AncC	-	12,169	13,407	62	402	6,610	4,198	2,599	33,048	33,434	66,482	16,723	1,938	1,610	5,747	1,639	3,370	418	976	854	171	140	3,695
Pembrokeshire AncC	-	15,779	16,595	164	473	7,974	4,519	4,102	37,952	43,473	81,425	18,356	1,842	1,864	6,075	131	4,785	605	1,599	1,124	331	219	4,929
Radnorshire AncC	-	4,437	4,879	18	167	3,135	1,028	716	12,453	12,198	24,651	6,269	1,032	911	2,451	42	1,179	121	232	241	60	39	1,409

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.

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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.