Vision of Britain | 1881 Census: Population tables 2

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".

Show top level table	Cheshire	Show England Dep table

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]
Cheshire RegC Total	643,745	105,672	7,031	739	121,337	10,738	1,221	539,785	622,365	261,604	301,768	278,181	320,597
Stockport RegD/PLU	28,464	20,353	1,015	175	24,731	2,916	147	97,709	117,157	45,163	54,135	52,546	63,022
Macclesfield RegD/PLU	85,892	13,255	1,478	42	13,615	898	29	59,339	62,013	28,042	28,970	31,297	33,043
Bucklow RegD/PLU	75,416	9,747	425	87	11,541	990	118	49,913	58,899	23,671	27,393	26,242	31,506
Runcorn RegD/PLU	47,103	6,003	267	28	6,745	469	45	30,534	34,023	15,633	17,445	14,901	16,578
Northwich RegD/PLU	62,643	7,594	326	70	8,707	412	33	37,310	44,046	18,945	22,579	18,365	21,467
Congleton RegD/PLU	56,167	7,485	615	23	7,786	741	16	36,281	38,010	17,682	18,589	18,599	19,421
Nantwich RegD/PLU	113,165	10,618	567	65	12,103	644	84	53,767	61,566	27,209	31,062	26,558	30,504
Chester RegD	120,383	13,840	696	87	14,545	927	84	72,049	75,297	35,611	37,252	36,438	38,045
Wirral RegD/PLU	45,457	4,197	187	20	4,888	439	117	23,419	27,928	11,431	13,853	11,988	14,075
Birkenhead RegD/PLU	9,055	12,580	1,455	142	16,676	2,302	548	79,464	103,426	38,217	50,490	41,247	52,936

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