1871 Census of Scotland, Population of Scotland with Report: Population of various types of areas, Houses, Table 1 : " Scotland in Civil Counties and Parishes, showing the Acreage, 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 Children from 5 to 13 years of age in the receipt of Education; the number of Rooms with Windows; the number of Persons temporarily absent or present in each Parish or subdivision thereof on the 3d April 1871. For comparison's sake, there is added the number of Families, Persons of each Sex, Houses, and Rooms, with Windows in 1861".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in Acres. [1]	1871															1861
			Separate Families. [2]	HOUSES			PERSONS			Children from 5 to 13 receiving Education. [9]	Rooms with one or more Windows. [10]	Temporarily Absent			Temporarily Present			Separate Families. [17]	HOUSES			PERSONS			Rooms with one or more Windows. [24]
				Inhabited. [3]	Uninhabited. [4]	Building. [5]	Males. [6]	Females. [7]	Total. [8]			Males. [11]	Females. [12]	Total. [13]	Males. [14]	Females. [15]	Total. [16]		Inhabited. [18]	Uninhabited. [19]	Building. [20]	Males. [21]	Females. [22]	Total. [23]
Caithness ScoCnty Total		-	8,825	7,474	203	41	18,937	21,055	39,992	6,445	21,715	100	87	187	135	115	250	8,952	7,457	92	126	19,352	21,759	41,111	19,496
Bower ScoP		-	335	328	13	0	818	882	1,700	212	799	5	8	13	3	6	9	369	365	8	1	841	905	1,746	732
Canisbay ScoP		-	572	523	5	2	1,274	1,455	2,729	514	1,268	14	3	17	16	5	21	564	528	1	16	1,308	1,422	2,730	1,226
Dunnet ScoP		-	406	386	9	0	738	923	1,661	244	929	3	3	6	2	5	7	415	382	4	3	842	1,019	1,861	888
Halkirk ScoP		-	568	526	24	2	1,274	1,390	2,664	366	1,502	7	2	9	15	12	27	619	574	15	9	1,383	1,481	2,864	1,325
Latheron ScoP		-	1,602	1,379	28	12	3,485	3,915	7,400	1,287	3,705	17	15	32	30	28	58	1,773	1,607	16	20	3,914	4,657	8,571	3,546
Olrig ScoP		-	508	405	17	2	993	1,035	2,028	299	1,164	9	4	13	16	13	29	556	403	1	8	1,016	1,043	2,059	1,075
Reay ScoP		-	518	503	14	2	1,063	1,268	2,331	345	1,190	8	14	22	27	18	45	533	479	8	6	1,144	1,332	2,476	1,075
Thurso ScoP		-	1,320	1,119	15	10	2,769	2,985	5,754	901	3,290	13	16	29	14	16	30	1,280	932	7	23	2,622	2,939	5,561	2,821
Watten ScoP		-	304	293	7	1	705	748	1,453	271	723	10	12	22	8	6	14	301	285	6	8	716	775	1,491	654
Wick ScoP		-	2,911	2,230	73	10	6,284	7,007	13,291	2,169	7,615	19	19	38	16	14	30	2,765	2,112	27	32	6,060	6,781	12,841	6,609

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

Rate	Date
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1861
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1871
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1871
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1871

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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