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]
Orkney ScoCnty Total	6,842	6,056	365	14	14,027	14,672	28,699	0	70	19,968	7,182	6,409	235	16	14,298	16,155	30,453	19,810
Birsay and Harray ScoP	513	508	59	1	887	1,117	2,004	0	2	1,414	561	548	60	0	983	1,276	2,259	1,474
Cross and Burness ScoP	321	303	22	1	704	747	1,451	0	3	798	330	310	11	0	765	820	1,585	890
Eday ScoP	140	139	22	0	318	325	643	0	0	363	152	146	16	0	333	372	705	363
Evie and Rendall ScoP	272	271	24	1	501	583	1,084	0	1	756	298	292	18	0	601	632	1,233	736
Firth ScoP	172	170	16	0	322	378	700	0	0	529	179	176	9	0	322	409	731	494
Holm ScoP	189	177	8	0	393	425	818	0	1	625	203	189	2	2	462	488	950	574
Hoy and Graemsay ScoP	105	103	3	0	217	268	485	0	0	260	118	112	5	0	242	295	537	233
Kirkwall and St Ola ScoP	1,172	803	28	3	2,075	2,447	4,522	0	23	3,820	1,264	859	27	2	2,134	2,621	4,755	3,749
Lady ScoP	163	157	15	0	353	365	718	0	0	497	182	178	11	0	410	435	845	529
Orphir ScoP	212	204	8	0	410	467	877	0	0	542	236	230	6	0	453	548	1,001	542
Papa Westray ScoP	67	67	6	0	154	141	295	0	0	179	80	76	0	0	175	162	337	183
Rousay and Egilsay ScoP	200	191	6	0	402	427	829	0	3	547	250	234	8	0	473	515	988	649
St Andrews and Deerness ScoP	324	322	6	0	717	762	1,479	0	0	955	343	330	3	0	772	835	1,607	984
Sandwick ScoP	255	255	14	0	506	565	1,071	0	2	761	259	252	15	2	522	587	1,109	760
Shapinsay ScoP	178	173	3	0	381	388	769	0	2	555	183	179	3	0	447	456	903	531
South Ronaldsay ScoP	604	574	27	1	1,330	1,377	2,707	0	4	1,950	660	617	10	6	1,463	1,596	3,059	2,017
Stenness ScoP	135	133	9	1	259	311	570	0	2	428	135	134	6	0	282	312	594	378
Stromness ScoP	786	535	42	5	1,815	1,365	3,180	0	24	2,210	648	530	7	0	1,016	1,317	2,333	1,987
Stronsay ScoP	258	244	13	1	594	590	1,184	0	0	763	285	275	3	1	659	650	1,309	776
Walls and Flotta ScoP	318	303	15	0	673	684	1,357	0	0	876	325	309	10	1	724	781	1,505	818
Westray ScoP	458	424	19	0	1,016	940	1,956	0	3	1,140	491	433	5	2	1,060	1,048	2,108	1,143

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

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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.