1891 Census of England and Wales, Area, Houses and Population: Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts, Table 2 : " Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes".

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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
			Inhabited				Uninhabited				Building				Persons		Males		Females
			1881 [2]	1881 [3]	1881 [4]	1891 [5]	1891 [6]	1891 [7]	1881 [8]	1891 [9]	1881 [10]	1891 [11]	1881 [12]	1891 [13]
Cornwall RegC Total		886,372	68,903	5,645	313	68,296	5,134	382	326,511	318,583	153,077	147,460	173,434	171,123
Stratton RegD/PLU		55,220	1,553	77	3	1,527	80	11	7,439	7,122	3,629	3,473	3,810	3,649
Camelford RegD/PLU		52,545	1,632	139	2	1,549	181	3	7,605	6,906	3,755	3,411	3,850	3,495
Launceston RegD/PLU		104,663	3,310	282	17	3,287	219	14	16,194	15,874	7,923	7,920	8,271	7,954
St Germans RegD/PLU		43,020	3,177	188	31	3,282	217	14	16,730	17,834	7,775	8,697	8,955	9,137
Liskeard RegD/PLU		107,851	6,013	618	20	5,814	577	13	28,787	26,477	13,622	12,371	15,165	14,106
Bodmin RegD/PLU		88,665	3,876	350	6	3,812	362	20	19,248	18,194	9,309	8,514	9,939	9,680
St Columb Major RegD/PLU		78,582	3,484	296	26	3,480	325	18	16,343	15,384	7,671	7,078	8,672	8,306
St Austell RegD/PLU		58,481	6,525	436	24	6,790	372	48	30,186	31,015	14,361	14,728	15,825	16,287
Truro RegD/PLU		89,368	8,151	794	28	8,069	716	20	35,982	33,739	16,299	14,984	19,683	18,755
Falmouth RegD/PLU		25,296	4,541	305	42	4,611	302	52	25,557	24,451	12,666	11,694	12,891	12,757
Helston RegD/PLU		73,334	5,343	654	24	3,822	409	14	23,681	22,157	10,810	10,048	12,871	12,109
Redruth RegD/PLU		40,426	10,361	647	32	11,172	488	99	46,128	49,243	20,364	21,926	25,764	27,317
Penzance RegD/PLU		64,880	10,508	835	58	10,675	862	56	50,311	48,276	23,680	21,728	26,631	26,548
Isles of Scilly RegD/PLU		4,041	429	24	0	406	24	0	2,320	1,911	1,213	888	1,107	1,023

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1891
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1891
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1891

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The Registration Districts of this Division are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions, except ...
2	Where the name of a Registration County in which a Parish is situated differs from that of the Administrative County to which it belongs, the name of the latter is added in italics. [further information on special cases in the specific division.]
3	(W) or (W.S.) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the Parish; (w) or (w.s.) that one of these institutions not belonging to the District is situated therein. A statement of the number of persons enumerated in Public Institutions in each District will be found in Table 8.
4	The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are Hamlets, Villages, etc, or localities having no defined boundaries.
5	Under the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876, 1879 and 1882 numerous detached parts of Civil Parishes have been amalgamated with other Civil Parishes, and a statement of such transferences is given in Table 14.
6	Revised areas of Civil Parishes and parts of Parishes have been furnished by the Ordnance Survey Department.
7	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 11.
8	Persons who, on the night of 5th April, 1891, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going and coastal vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included in the general population. For details see Table 9.

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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