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1921 Census of England and Wales, General Report with Appendices, Table 74 : " Dependency by Counties: Average number of Children under 16 per Family".
County. | Average number of children of | County. | Average number of children of | ||||
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Married Men. | Widowers. | Widows. | Married Men. | Widowers. | Widows. | ||
England and Wales | 1.27 | 0.32 | 0.37 | Nottingham | 1.29 | 0.33 | 0.40 |
Oxford | 1.16 | 0.24 | 0.32 | ||||
Bedford | 1.15 | 0.22 | 0.34 | Rutland | 1.20 | 0.26 | 0.31 |
Berkshire | 1.14 | 0.21 | 0.33 | Shropshire | 1.32 | 0.29 | 0.31 |
Buckingham | 1.13 | 0.22 | 0.33 | Somerset | 1.14 | 0.23 | 0.28 |
Cambridge | 1.16 | 0.23 | 0.33 | Southampton | 1.15 | 0.27 | 0.33 |
Cheshire | 1.22 | 0.31 | 0.35 | Stafford | 1.47 | 0.39 | 0.46 |
Cornwall | 1.10 | 0.24 | 0.29 | Suffolk | 1.24 | 0.26 | 0.34 |
Cumberland | 1.40 | 0.35 | 0.38 | Surrey | 1.13 | 0.26 | 0.30 |
Derby | 1.36 | 0.35 | 0.39 | Sussex | 1.03 | 0.20 | 0.28 |
Devon | 1.05 | 0.24 | 0.29 | Warwick | 1.31 | 0.32 | 0.40 |
Dorset | 1.12 | 0.23 | 0.30 | Westmorland | 1.09 | 0.21 | 0.27 |
Durham | 1.59 | 0.46 | 0.55 | Wiltshire | 1.18 | 0.27 | 0.31 |
Essex | 1.30 | 0.31 | 0.40 | Worcester | 1.27 | 0.29 | 0.35 |
Gloucester | 1.21 | 0.28 | 0.34 | Yorkshire | 1.25 | 0.49 | 0.38 |
Hereford | 1.23 | 0.27 | 0.32 | Anglesey | 1.23 | 0.27 | 0.28 |
Hertford | 1.18 | 0.24 | 0.34 | Brecknock | 1.48 | 0.38 | 0.36 |
Huntingdon | 1.21 | 0.29 | 0.33 | Cardigan | 1.13 | 0.26 | 0.23 |
Kent | 1.18 | 0.26 | 0.33 | Carmarthen | 1.52 | 0.38 | 0.39 |
Lancashire | 1.26 | 0.34 | 0.41 | Carnarvon | 1.07 | 0.29 | 0.28 |
Leicester | 1.19 | 0.31 | 0.38 | Denbigh | 1.34 | 0.35 | 0.34 |
Lincoln | 1.26 | 0.29 | 0.34 | Flint | 1.40 | 0.32 | 0.37 |
London | 1.27 | 0.30 | 0.36 | Glamorgan | 1.56 | 0.44 | 0.48 |
Middlesex | 1.23 | 0.33 | 0.34 | Merioneth | 1.12 | 0.29 | 0.25 |
Monmouth | 1.60 | 0.46 | 0.49 | Montgomery | 1.35 | 0.27 | 0.32 |
Norfolk | 1.18 | 0.24 | 0.34 | Pembroke | 1.34 | 0.31 | 0.32 |
Northampton | 1.11 | 0.23 | 0.34 | Radnor | 1.32 | 0.32 | 0.28 |
Northumberland | 1.47 | 0.40 | 0.48 |