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".

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Click on the 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]
Shrewsbury Borough Total	14,680	4,057	4,509	46	177	398	1,862	2,249	10,018	11,279	21,297	5,454	80	49	593	103	2,259	360	1,488	365	157	73	1,279
Shrewsbury St Mary AP/CP	5,270	1,169	1,362	4	33	186	545	631	3,442	3,348	6,790	1,760	35	15	321	12	705	88	485	57	42	15	290
Shrewsbury St Alkmund AP/CP	14,680	349	389	0	7	31	191	167	820	958	1,778	466	9	3	48	0	253	31	83	12	27	35	122
Shrewsbury St Chad AP/CP	-	1,495	1,621	18	70	105	810	706	3,496	4,224	7,720	1,987	33	2	83	83	970	161	517	82	56	4	582
Shrewsbury Holy Cross With St Giles CP	-	312	368	6	18	58	123	187	656	820	1,476	371	8	13	53	5	153	32	71	26	10	7	91
Shrewsbury St Julian AP/CP/Ch	-	626	649	20	30	6	169	474	1,413	1,583	2,996	769	7	16	111	0	168	32	291	130	14	10	143
Meole Brace AP/CP	-	230	248	0	19	102	57	89	546	661	1,207	299	9	9	88	4	53	16	51	60	9	2	71

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1831
Percent in Agriculture	1831
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1831

Comments:

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.

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.