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	Cumberland	List for England 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]
Cumberland AncC Total	969,430	31,017	34,820	213	1,522	10,630	12,026	12,164	81,971	87,710	169,681	40,614	3,617	2,839	9,010	3,214	11,186	1,802	6,077	2,530	339	181	6,789
Allerdale Above Derwent Wd	275,970	7,967	8,261	41	478	2,444	2,360	3,457	18,950	20,968	39,918	9,053	890	611	2,045	309	2,429	489	1,548	599	133	65	1,689
Allerdale Below Derwent Wd	170,400	5,031	5,354	24	229	2,040	1,469	1,845	12,837	13,559	26,396	6,368	806	397	1,821	215	1,633	224	803	432	37	45	1,079
Cumberland Wap/Wd	94,770	3,848	4,140	40	184	1,701	1,699	740	10,159	10,445	20,604	5,225	615	438	1,544	584	1,190	171	398	274	11	4	865
Eskdale Wap/Wd	204,120	4,161	4,593	22	120	2,223	1,428	942	11,987	12,004	23,991	6,005	598	773	1,782	447	1,325	185	528	352	15	7	943
Leath Wap/Wd	217,430	5,094	5,443	24	296	1,973	1,396	2,074	13,830	13,543	27,373	6,937	661	593	1,524	114	1,733	307	1,547	376	82	46	1,112
Carlisle AD_City/Borough	6,740	2,696	4,326	50	116	249	2,886	1,191	9,450	10,556	20,006	4,890	47	27	254	1,448	1,733	264	823	248	46	11	657
Whitehaven AD_Town	-	2,220	2,703	12	99	0	788	1,915	4,758	6,635	11,393	2,136	0	0	40	97	1,143	162	430	249	15	3	444

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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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.