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]
County Durham RegC Total		765,075	116,309	5,794	1,426	148,687	12,457	557	693,012	875,166	357,019	447,816	335,993	427,350
Darlington RegD/PLU		65,705	7,345	369	131	9,027	842	16	40,812	47,676	20,616	23,519	20,196	24,157
Stockton RegD		82,686	9,363	333	152	12,499	1,644	70	50,512	68,312	26,605	35,588	23,907	32,724
Hartlepool RegD/PLU		21,374	6,439	238	83	8,525	816	32	39,970	48,613	20,909	24,868	19,061	23,745
Auckland RegD/PLU		64,451	13,325	578	151	16,260	1,254	21	69,159	83,572	36,614	43,555	32,545	40,017
Teesdale RegD/PLU		178,346	4,049	185	21	4,255	369	12	20,398	20,777	10,179	10,305	10,219	10,472
Weardale RegD/PLU		98,385	3,681	199	25	3,513	490	5	19,155	17,542	10,036	9,035	9,119	8,507
Lanchester RegD/PLU		67,181	7,354	398	117	10,378	493	24	40,521	57,861	22,081	30,842	18,440	27,019
Durham RegD/PLU		44,191	9,561	961	129	11,919	2,172	20	51,313	64,321	26,483	33,092	24,830	31,229
Easington RegD/PLU		38,031	6,281	377	29	7,270	680	63	33,694	41,098	17,455	21,208	16,239	19,890
Houghton le Spring RegD/PLU		16,359	5,186	154	12	6,625	167	10	26,315	34,145	13,549	17,724	12,766	16,421
Chester le Street RegD/PLU		34,812	6,676	358	75	8,400	393	24	33,300	43,352	17,261	22,630	16,039	20,722
Sunderland RegD/PLU		11,497	14,941	732	210	19,815	1,292	110	112,643	139,288	55,280	69,146	57,363	70,142
South Shields RegD/PLU		15,775	10,113	371	163	14,021	756	104	74,949	103,199	39,073	53,027	35,876	50,172
Gateshead RegD/PLU		26,282	11,995	541	128	16,180	1,089	46	80,271	105,410	40,878	53,277	39,393	52,133

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

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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