Vision of Britain | 1901 Census: General Report vol. 1

1901 Census of Scotland, Eleventh Decennial Census of the Population of Scotland taken 31st March 1901, with Report, Table 1 _1 : " Scotland in Civil Counties and Parishes, the Parishes being in alphabetical order under each County and arranged in two sub-divisions: The number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of Persons of each Sex; the number of Persons aged three years and upwards, speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English; the number of Rooms with Windows, for each Parish, on 31st March, 1901; and for comparison, the number of Families, Houses, Males, Females, and both Sexes, and Rooms with Windows in 1891".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	1901										1891
	Separate Families [1]	Houses			Population			Persons speaking Gaelic only [8]	Persons speaking Gaelic and English [9]	Rooms with one or more Windows [10]	Separate Families [11]	Houses			Population			Rooms with one or more Windows [18]
	Separate Families [1]	Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Males [5]	Females [6]	Total [7]	Persons speaking Gaelic only [8]	Persons speaking Gaelic and English [9]	Rooms with one or more Windows [10]	Separate Families [11]	Inhabited [12]	Uninhabited [13]	Building [14]	Males [15]	Females [16]	Total [17]	Rooms with one or more Windows [18]
Shetland ScoCnty Total	6,142	5,422	381	31	12,413	15,753	28,166	0	55	15,300	6,304	5,564	340	8	12,190	16,521	28,711	14,138
Bressay ScoP	150	144	24	1	268	418	686	0	2	345	175	167	6	0	306	496	802	368
Delting ScoP	307	290	7	2	564	825	1,389	0	5	813	330	316	4	0	598	914	1,512	715
Dunrossness ScoP	757	723	26	7	1,642	1,996	3,638	0	7	1,921	796	744	24	5	1,663	2,089	3,752	1,680
Fetlar ScoP	62	60	65	1	159	188	347	0	1	165	70	70	79	0	154	209	363	181
Lerwick ScoP	1,577	1,114	37	15	2,999	3,520	6,519	0	14	3,935	1,449	1,008	40	0	2,423	3,334	5,757	3,552
Nesting ScoP	495	480	25	0	1,085	1,395	2,480	0	5	1,150	514	492	17	0	1,097	1,492	2,589	1,056
Northmaven ScoP	433	422	26	0	894	1,120	2,014	0	2	1,386	439	420	33	0	997	1,200	2,197	1,230
Sandsting ScoP	507	493	21	2	977	1,419	2,396	0	1	1,188	535	518	19	0	1,021	1,541	2,562	1,110
Tingwall ScoP	528	435	26	1	973	1,300	2,273	0	4	1,227	527	429	23	0	950	1,379	2,329	1,105
Unst ScoP	425	402	33	0	940	1,006	1,946	0	5	1,044	489	472	19	0	1,107	1,173	2,280	1,059
Walls and Sandness ScoP	383	370	38	0	842	1,153	1,995	0	7	843	419	403	11	1	850	1,207	2,057	853
Yell ScoP	518	489	53	2	1,070	1,413	2,483	0	2	1,283	561	525	65	2	1,024	1,487	2,511	1,229

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1901
Percentage of persons unable to speak Gaelic	1901
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1901

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.