Vision of Britain | 1901 Census: General Report vol. 1

1901 Census of Scotland, Eleventh Decennial Census of the Population of Scotland taken 31st March 1901, with Report, Table 1 _1 : " Scotland in Civil Counties and Parishes, the Parishes being in alphabetical order under each County and arranged in two sub-divisions: 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 Persons aged three years and upwards, speaking Gaelic only, and Gaelic and English; the number of Rooms with Windows, for each Parish, on 31st March, 1901; and for comparison, the number of Families, Houses, Males, Females, and both Sexes, and Rooms with Windows in 1891".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	1901										1891
	Separate Families [1]	Houses			Population			Persons speaking Gaelic only [8]	Persons speaking Gaelic and English [9]	Rooms with one or more Windows [10]	Separate Families [11]	Houses			Population			Rooms with one or more Windows [18]
	Separate Families [1]	Inhabited [2]	Uninhabited [3]	Building [4]	Males [5]	Females [6]	Total [7]	Persons speaking Gaelic only [8]	Persons speaking Gaelic and English [9]	Rooms with one or more Windows [10]	Separate Families [11]	Inhabited [12]	Uninhabited [13]	Building [14]	Males [15]	Females [16]	Total [17]	Rooms with one or more Windows [18]
Caithness ScoCnty Total	7,898	7,146	382	29	16,072	17,798	33,870	20	2,876	25,340	8,414	7,444	271	28	17,472	19,705	37,177	25,438
Bower ScoP	305	301	9	3	705	748	1,453	0	34	975	320	319	10	1	721	785	1,506	982
Canisbay ScoP	502	495	16	0	1,050	1,142	2,192	1	17	1,402	525	511	10	2	1,153	1,239	2,392	1,426
Dunnet ScoP	324	320	36	2	558	674	1,232	0	17	883	359	349	15	0	642	846	1,488	971
Halkirk ScoP	524	510	34	1	1,122	1,233	2,355	4	361	1,738	563	555	21	2	1,216	1,361	2,577	1,790
Latheron ScoP	1,253	1,189	67	4	2,480	2,743	5,223	11	1,361	4,006	1,356	1,292	49	4	2,749	3,126	5,875	3,641
Olrig ScoP	395	395	35	0	723	832	1,555	0	54	1,323	429	427	34	0	846	991	1,837	1,285
Reay ScoP	228	226	22	0	458	516	974	0	269	774	266	263	12	0	545	637	1,182	744
Thurso ScoP	1,321	1,102	50	7	2,567	2,839	5,406	2	377	4,262	1,364	1,164	29	9	2,753	3,072	5,825	4,315
Watten ScoP	253	245	10	0	593	637	1,230	0	71	867	280	268	12	2	677	713	1,390	870
Wick ScoP	2,793	2,363	103	12	5,816	6,434	12,250	2	315	9,110	2,952	2,296	79	8	6,170	6,935	13,105	9,414

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1901
Percentage of persons unable to speak Gaelic	1901
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1901

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.