Vision of Britain | 1881 Census: Population tables 2

1881 Census of England and Wales, Tables: Area, Houses and Population in Registration Counties, Table 4 : " Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881".

Show top level table	Hertfordshire	Show England Dep table

Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
		1871			1881			Persons		Males		Females
		Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Inhabited [5]	Uninhabited [6]	Building [7]	1871 [8]	1881 [9]	1871 [10]	1881 [11]	1871 [12]	1881 [13]
Hertfordshire RegC Total	441,623	39,713	1,862	260	41,649	2,187	362	194,612	202,375	95,178	98,963	99,434	103,412
Barnet RegD/PLU	25,720	4,343	449	175	5,682	444	142	25,169	34,098	11,950	15,772	13,219	18,326
Ware RegD/PLU	36,254	3,486	215	24	3,733	220	41	17,460	18,625	8,856	9,434	8,604	9,191
Bishops Stortford RegD/PLU	54,471	4,508	221	37	4,585	208	15	21,620	21,801	10,805	10,910	10,815	10,891
Royston RegD	89,658	5,469	169	25	5,352	314	12	26,180	24,655	13,475	12,550	12,705	12,105
Hitchin RegD/PLU	66,600	5,709	222	30	5,814	307	33	27,656	27,417	13,034	13,003	14,622	14,414
Hertford RegD/PLU	35,282	3,146	109	20	3,258	193	102	16,009	16,754	8,120	8,509	7,889	8,245
Hatfield RegD	30,068	1,720	80	7	1,778	88	5	8,631	8,802	4,308	4,371	4,323	4,431
St Albans RegD/PLU	41,399	4,389	197	44	4,826	231	32	21,079	23,296	9,844	10,963	11,235	12,333
Watford RegD/PLU	36,952	5,189	320	28	5,946	327	80	27,172	31,328	13,176	15,055	13,996	16,273
Hemel Hempstead RegD/PLU	25,695	3,131	153	25	3,169	195	15	14,706	14,606	6,919	6,995	7,787	7,611
Berkhampstead RegD/PLU	25,244	2,966	176	20	3,188	104	27	14,099	15,091	6,641	7,173	7,458	7,918

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1881
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1881
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1881

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	Where the name of the Registration County in which a parish is situated differs from that of the County Proper to which it belongs, the name of the latter is stated in italics.
2	(W) or (W S) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, and has been included in the return; (w) or (w s) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School not belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the parish, but has been included in the return. A statement of the number of persons in the principal Public Institutions in each district will be found in Table 6.
3	The AREAS which have been supplied by the Ordnance Survey Department are printed in Script type (e.g. Chessington 1250, sub-district 30 : 2). Those printed in French type (e.g. Charnham Street (Wilts) 2490, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Tithe Commissioners, and those printed in Arabic type (e.g. Baydon (Wilts) 3060, sub-district 113 : 3) were assigned to the parishes by the late Mr. Rickman, in the Enumeration Abstract for 1831. In these latter cases a more accurate estimate of the area is not at present procurable.
4	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 8.
5	Persons who, on the night of the 3rd April 1881, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included among the general population.
6	In cases where detached parts of parishes have been transferred by Local Government Board Orders under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61, the houses and population for 1871 have been corrected, that the figures may be compatible with those for 1881.

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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.