Vision of Britain | 1831 Census: Abstract of answers

1831 Census of Great Britain, Abstract of answers (Sample Report Title: Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act, passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George IV, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and the Increase or Diminution thereof." Enumeration Abstract.), Table [1] : " Population Abstract".

List for top level	Caithness	List for Scotland Dep

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area	Houses				Occupations			Persons				Agriculture			Employed in Manufacture, or in making Manufacturing Machinery. [16]	Employed in Retail Trade, or in Handicrafts as Masters or Workmen. [17]	Capitalists, Bankers, Professional and other Educated Men. [18]	Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	Male Servants		Female Servants [23]
	English Statute Acres [1]	Inhabited [2]	Families [3]	Building [4]	Uninhabited [5]	Families chiefly employed in Agriculture [6]	Families chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft [7]	All other Families not comprised in the two preceding Classes [8]	Males [9]	Females [10]	Total of Persons [11]	Males Twenty Years of Age [12]	Occupiers employing Labourers. [13]	Occupiers not employing Labourers. [14]	Labourers employed in Agriculture. [15]				Labourers employed in Labour not Agricultural [19]	Other Males 20 Years of Age (except Servants) [20]	20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]	Female Servants [23]
Caithness ScoCnty Total	-	6,036	6,904	90	94	3,580	1,487	1,837	16,359	18,170	34,529	8,270	441	2,408	1,378	88	2,257	223	1,056	400	19	35	1,413
Bower ScoP	-	230	236	2	4	161	19	56	810	805	1,615	440	68	85	173	2	35	8	48	18	3	2	89
Canisbay ScoP	-	475	494	1	11	405	50	39	1,119	1,245	2,364	553	82	276	53	13	101	8	0	17	3	0	82
Dunnet ScoP	-	387	426	6	0	195	71	160	932	974	1,906	481	20	145	61	9	81	6	125	34	0	0	41
Halkirk ScoP	-	515	530	7	27	420	68	42	1,322	1,525	2,847	574	98	144	156	0	68	14	38	56	0	2	130
Latheron ScoP	-	1,354	1,408	15	20	1,068	161	179	3,191	3,829	7,020	1,515	23	836	262	14	245	23	57	53	2	2	120
Olrig ScoP	-	201	215	0	3	128	47	40	576	570	1,146	310	13	93	68	4	38	9	67	16	2	2	65
Reay ScoP	-	487	552	14	25	374	50	128	1,326	1,555	2,881	749	23	430	54	11	68	5	157	1	0	6	124
Thurso ScoP	-	739	1,036	6	11	279	232	525	2,124	2,555	4,679	1,127	42	174	170	21	381	57	218	61	3	10	254
Watten ScoP	-	241	241	0	9	189	32	20	599	635	1,234	258	23	42	125	0	32	5	15	15	1	0	120
Wick ScoP	-	1,578	1,976	52	4	488	776	712	4,830	5,020	9,850	2,558	52	319	262	23	1,230	89	449	129	5	14	421

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1	This transcription also includes sub-parish units, but as they have not been systematically added to the auo they are not included in the material copied into the g_data table.

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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.

Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to the following contributors. If you make use of the data in your own work, please follow any instructions given here on acknowledgment and re-use.

David Allan Gatley (School of Social Sciences, University of Staffordshire). Role: transcriber. Restrictions on use: the contributor must be acknowledged but the data may be freely used for non-commercial purposes.