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".

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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]
Somerset RegC Total		1,066,377	96,257	5,226	742	99,385	7,321	655	482,508	490,602	227,888	231,394	254,620	259,208
Williton RegD/PLU		109,202	3,892	181	15	3,865	252	12	19,807	18,685	9,833	9,204	9,974	9,481
Dulverton RegD/PLU		57,906	1,181	46	3	1,133	57	4	5,794	5,453	2,993	2,802	2,801	2,651
Wellington RegD/PLU		60,454	4,375	193	20	4,135	293	16	20,777	19,194	10,165	9,297	10,612	9,897
Taunton RegD/PLU		70,452	7,333	532	45	7,588	463	47	35,522	35,982	16,830	16,880	18,692	19,102
Bridgwater RegD/PLU		91,163	7,292	452	25	7,212	565	17	34,871	33,673	17,153	16,543	17,718	17,130
Langport RegD/PLU		59,391	3,793	176	3	3,500	241	9	17,650	15,574	8,604	7,571	9,046	8,003
Chard RegD/PLU		60,342	5,406	187	32	5,419	265	16	26,437	25,353	12,624	12,101	13,813	13,252
Yeovil RegD/PLU		52,151	5,939	244	32	5,813	370	19	28,852	27,706	13,424	12,840	15,428	14,866
Wincanton RegD/PLU		66,120	4,554	213	23	4,360	285	14	21,059	19,770	10,043	9,461	11,016	10,309
Frome RegD/PLU		51,208	5,368	375	69	5,169	482	11	24,271	23,152	11,511	11,062	12,760	12,090
Shepton Mallet RegD/PLU		50,282	3,630	224	16	3,526	261	13	16,179	15,779	7,812	7,619	8,367	8,160
Wells RegD/PLU		64,197	4,435	180	34	4,559	264	37	22,132	22,013	10,732	10,587	11,400	11,426
Axbridge RegD/PLU		105,679	7,750	466	68	8,141	583	72	39,221	40,841	18,269	18,651	20,952	22,190
Clutton RegD/PLU		47,026	5,101	253	5	5,130	288	24	23,725	23,615	11,917	12,091	11,808	11,524
Bath RegD/PLU		30,321	11,882	772	96	12,499	998	106	69,591	70,626	29,297	30,124	40,294	40,502
Keynsham RegD/PLU		33,415	4,806	209	21	5,288	493	71	22,892	25,781	11,059	12,570	11,833	13,211
Long Ashton RegD/PLU		57,068	9,520	523	235	12,048	1,161	167	53,728	67,405	25,622	31,991	28,106	35,414

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

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.

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