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".

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Click on the 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]
Frome Hundred Total	32,900	3,842	4,189	12	423	949	2,126	1,114	9,438	10,446	19,884	4,363	161	153	837	923	1,331	130	272	497	59	18	540
Beckington AP/CP	1,840	264	290	0	23	74	135	81	645	695	1,340	315	16	13	53	36	86	13	63	29	6	0	30
Berkley AP/CP	1,880	111	112	0	5	54	46	12	251	280	531	132	6	5	67	41	4	3	1	1	4	1	12
Cloford CP/AP	2,080	58	64	0	0	48	9	7	158	144	302	74	6	11	42	0	9	0	4	2	0	0	7
East Cranmore CP/Ch	980	10	10	0	1	7	0	3	31	33	64	20	2	3	10	0	0	2	1	0	2	1	9
Elm CP/AP	820	89	93	0	4	20	35	38	224	203	427	96	8	4	16	8	32	5	17	6	0	0	9
Frome AP/CP	6,960	2,346	2,570	7	328	208	1,580	782	5,706	6,534	12,240	2,603	27	52	163	730	1,006	80	136	384	25	8	290
Laverton AP/CP	1,060	40	41	0	0	25	14	2	88	108	196	40	7	2	17	9	5	0	0	0	0	0	9
Lullington CP/AP	840	28	32	0	3	24	6	2	67	78	145	34	5	5	18	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	3
Marston Bigot AP/CP	2,000	93	93	0	5	59	14	20	246	239	485	110	13	5	61	1	15	2	2	2	9	7	38
Nunney AP/CP	2,360	247	273	2	13	108	88	77	575	629	1,204	263	13	10	93	11	65	8	28	30	5	0	35
Orchardleigh CP/AP	930	6	6	0	2	5	1	0	16	11	27	8	1	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Rode AP/CP	1,010	198	204	0	26	68	107	29	462	492	954	204	4	11	65	59	52	2	2	7	2	0	22
Rodden CP/Ch	990	36	44	0	0	24	16	4	143	152	295	47	9	2	21	6	4	1	4	0	0	0	8
Standerwick AP/CP	270	19	19	0	0	14	4	1	44	53	97	23	2	0	14	3	2	1	0	0	1	1	5
Wanstrow AP/CP	2,050	69	101	1	6	74	9	18	211	199	410	121	6	14	58	0	19	6	2	15	1	0	12
Whatley AP/CP	1,230	86	90	0	3	44	28	18	177	209	386	91	7	9	34	14	6	4	7	7	3	0	24
Witham Friary AP/CP/ParLib	4,970	106	110	2	2	78	15	17	291	283	574	132	25	1	79	0	17	0	0	10	0	0	16
Woolverton AP/CP	630	36	37	0	2	15	19	3	103	104	207	50	4	4	22	4	4	3	5	3	1	0	10
Leigh upon Mendip Ch/CP	1,470	141	156	3	4	52	31	73	319	321	640	146	11	5	41	1	32	9	32	15	0	0	11
Mells CP/AP	3,250	248	283	2	3	94	114	75	614	645	1,259	319	11	3	97	56	74	12	33	25	8	7	34

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

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.

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.