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]
Wells Forum Hundred Total	30,090	2,041	2,234	9	91	891	779	564	5,421	5,999	11,420	2,709	177	151	835	3	922	144	211	181	85	24	455
Binegar AP/CP	680	80	80	0	1	30	22	28	177	199	376	90	5	7	23	0	25	4	13	12	1	0	10
West Cranmore CP/Ch	2,160	58	59	2	4	43	7	9	140	158	298	76	6	1	43	0	13	1	0	10	2	0	10
Dinder AP/CP	1,050	45	47	0	4	24	19	4	109	101	210	59	6	4	20	0	16	3	3	4	3	1	12
Evercreech AP/CP	3,130	294	297	3	23	129	97	71	663	827	1,490	351	26	22	120	3	112	6	13	38	11	0	28
Litton AP/CP	1,230	89	95	0	6	50	30	15	216	198	414	100	21	0	43	0	27	4	2	3	0	0	14
Priddy Ch/CP	1,500	36	42	0	2	29	12	1	109	93	202	43	11	0	16	0	15	0	0	1	0	0	3
Wells St Andrew CP/ParLib	14,100	53	59	0	7	2	15	42	173	208	381	80	1	1	7	0	11	33	1	0	26	8	78
Wells St Cuthbert CP/AP	-	1,049	1,186	2	34	368	487	331	2,958	3,310	6,268	1,480	64	59	361	0	613	86	168	92	37	12	270
Westbury CP/AP	3,560	122	143	1	1	98	30	15	328	353	681	161	11	27	77	0	34	4	0	5	3	2	23
Wookey CP/AP	2,680	215	226	1	9	118	60	48	548	552	1,100	269	26	30	125	0	56	3	11	16	2	1	7

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