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".

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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]
Kent RegC Total		969,417	117,149	7,327	878	132,255	7,386	1,505	629,126	708,527	312,931	350,615	316,195	357,912
Greenwich RegD/PLU		3,427	16,171	1,703	98	19,781	1,223	268	100,600	131,233	47,941	63,403	52,659	67,830
Lewisham RegD/PLU		11,436	8,548	1,007	214	11,957	1,591	552	51,557	73,327	21,690	31,301	29,867	42,026
Woolwich RegD/PLU		6,500	10,504	912	65	11,697	516	165	73,380	80,845	37,848	41,007	35,532	39,838
Bromley RegD/PLU		40,338	5,924	402	119	8,587	541	325	32,184	48,972	14,890	22,455	17,294	26,517
Dartford RegD/PLU		52,330	8,049	560	34	9,700	501	104	42,344	53,435	20,781	26,869	21,563	26,566
Gravesend and Milton RegD/PLU		1,256	3,485	387	16	3,806	219	12	21,265	23,302	10,038	11,411	11,227	11,891
Strood RegD/PLU		37,488	4,135	360	19	4,871	143	62	21,561	27,437	10,929	14,683	10,632	12,754
Hoo RegD/PLU		19,859	620	31	1	631	24	0	3,143	3,405	1,644	1,891	1,499	1,514
Medway RegD/PLU		12,080	9,837	707	38	10,620	309	65	59,150	61,644	31,137	32,107	28,013	29,537
Malling RegD/PLU		47,410	4,582	231	13	5,108	207	34	23,383	26,041	11,831	13,304	11,552	12,737
Sevenoaks RegD/PLU		67,293	4,772	215	28	5,275	268	80	24,262	27,190	12,159	13,476	12,103	13,714
Tonbridge RegD/PLU		46,658	8,249	430	123	9,803	698	123	44,668	51,507	20,847	23,675	23,821	27,832
Maidstone RegD/PLU		38,678	7,889	507	33	8,531	577	61	42,017	45,091	20,602	21,971	21,415	23,120
Hollingbourne RegD/PLU		57,624	2,859	121	10	2,902	140	14	14,047	14,040	7,184	7,170	6,863	6,870
Cranbrook RegD/PLU		41,452	2,781	85	14	2,756	184	9	14,005	13,774	6,991	6,881	7,014	6,893
Tenterden RegD/PLU		47,324	2,241	71	1	2,158	154	0	10,871	10,461	5,417	5,115	5,454	5,346
West Ashford RegD/PLU		42,333	3,359	196	34	3,716	171	22	16,730	18,126	8,385	9,019	8,345	9,107
East Ashford RegD/PLU		54,886	2,639	81	10	2,876	129	10	13,016	13,697	6,621	7,016	6,395	6,681
Bridge RegD/PLU		42,340	2,346	78	2	2,495	102	6	11,139	12,405	5,636	6,123	5,503	6,282
Canterbury RegD/Inc		3,111	3,172	212	14	3,272	144	17	16,510	17,060	8,188	8,476	8,322	8,584
Blean RegD/PLU		28,983	3,820	246	13	3,932	333	40	18,269	18,867	8,862	9,113	9,407	9,754
Faversham RegD/PLU		44,672	4,404	158	12	4,874	186	28	22,346	24,956	11,347	12,748	10,999	12,208
Milton RegD/PLU		31,912	3,835	402	19	4,587	128	32	19,217	23,270	9,688	11,966	9,529	11,304
Sheppey RegD/PLU		22,451	3,030	173	4	3,148	137	14	18,565	18,204	10,198	9,917	8,367	8,287
Thanet RegD/PLU		26,179	7,935	760	177	9,509	982	211	42,129	50,821	19,284	23,499	22,845	27,322
Eastry RegD/PLU		46,395	5,516	237	19	5,607	306	29	27,229	28,074	13,511	14,143	13,718	13,931
Dover RegD/PLU		29,111	5,751	344	81	6,457	364	125	35,249	36,813	17,999	17,997	17,250	18,816
Elham RegD/PLU		42,919	4,688	293	42	5,802	370	81	29,747	33,769	15,516	16,234	14,231	17,535
Romney Marsh RegD/PLU		44,335	1,231	40	2	1,232	69	1	6,080	6,166	3,246	3,356	2,834	2,810

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

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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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