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".

Show top level table	Sussex	Show England Dep table

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]
Sussex RegC Total		947,132	76,063	4,150	736	88,561	6,092	1,808	420,910	494,194	201,250	234,248	219,660	259,946
Rye RegD/PLU		38,131	2,567	122	10	2,592	173	10	11,998	12,040	6,049	5,999	5,949	6,041
Hastings RegD/PLU		13,941	5,560	323	73	7,805	596	245	35,642	50,129	15,226	21,208	20,416	28,921
Battle RegD/PLU		53,962	2,592	101	24	2,864	142	31	13,763	14,519	6,987	7,352	6,776	7,167
Eastbourne RegD/PLU		36,539	2,824	272	76	4,532	355	183	15,726	27,756	7,426	12,985	8,300	14,771
Hailsham RegD/PLU		55,130	2,571	108	16	2,752	188	34	13,021	13,405	6,793	6,898	6,228	6,507
Ticehurst RegD/PLU		52,352	3,190	115	23	3,375	158	10	16,717	17,219	8,369	8,458	8,348	8,761
Uckfield RegD/PLU		75,386	3,689	135	22	3,953	232	21	19,314	20,098	9,934	10,129	9,380	9,969
East Grinstead RegD/PLU		61,553	2,993	138	11	3,426	103	18	15,799	18,581	8,077	9,575	7,722	9,006
Cuckfield RegD/PLU		62,284	3,666	223	39	4,220	313	97	20,180	23,252	10,393	11,853	9,787	11,399
Lewes RegD		85,467	5,412	248	34	5,874	264	62	29,942	32,896	15,194	17,138	14,748	15,758
Brighton RegD/Inc		1,625	14,438	938	235	15,993	1,200	532	90,011	99,091	39,125	43,418	50,886	55,673
Steyning RegD/PLU		47,760	5,128	358	48	8,094	905	346	31,473	49,089	14,373	22,091	17,100	26,998
Horsham RegD/PLU		70,539	3,920	169	15	4,409	290	42	19,935	22,300	10,131	11,138	9,804	11,162
Petworth RegD/PLU		45,701	2,010	64	2	1,994	119	0	10,147	9,595	5,296	4,858	4,851	4,737
Thakenham RegD/PLU		40,636	1,689	79	3	1,652	131	5	8,335	8,285	4,274	4,247	4,061	4,038
East Preston RegD/PLU/Inc		34,869	4,132	302	34	5,014	337	117	21,579	26,364	10,223	12,264	11,356	14,100
Westhampnett RegD/PLU		70,758	3,979	254	54	4,143	286	30	18,860	19,653	9,217	9,617	9,643	10,036
Chichester Inc/RegD		1,888	1,587	66	2	1,539	98	7	8,205	8,569	3,785	4,108	4,420	4,461
Midhurst RegD/PLU		66,571	2,621	79	9	2,797	136	14	13,042	13,933	6,767	7,170	6,275	6,763
Westbourne RegD/PLU		32,040	1,495	56	6	1,533	66	4	7,221	7,420	3,611	3,742	3,610	3,678

Click on the triangles for all about a particular number.

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

JISC Portsmouth Back to top

• ©2009-2024 University of Portsmouth and others
• About this site
• Expert search
• Web design by Headscape