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]						20 Years of Age [21]	Under 20 Years [22]
Penwith Hundred Total		106,840	13,603	14,721	282	673	2,574	2,947	9,200	36,212	38,655	74,867	16,921	625	991	2,052	57	3,477	601	8,113	824	181	116	1,720
St Buryan CP/AP		6,970	286	313	3	11	219	32	62	809	898	1,707	388	52	29	191	0	56	10	32	18	0	0	96
Camborne CP/AP		6,900	1,327	1,466	46	67	148	237	1,081	3,711	3,988	7,699	1,564	24	38	125	0	252	36	997	86	6	1	138
Crowan CP/AP		7,340	773	820	11	60	141	59	620	2,133	2,199	4,332	930	39	74	95	0	65	2	615	36	4	0	79
St Erth CP/AP		3,050	346	363	8	2	81	77	205	963	959	1,922	461	28	41	83	50	60	12	176	11	0	0	48
Gulval CP/AP		3,280	287	303	3	7	90	26	187	718	749	1,467	364	35	48	89	5	66	18	58	23	22	5	56
Gwinear CP/AP		4,400	500	501	2	36	88	49	364	1,368	1,360	2,728	552	28	29	73	0	50	2	352	18	0	0	65
Gwithian Ch/CP		2,070	104	105	3	9	48	19	38	277	262	539	136	16	10	49	0	16	0	45	0	0	0	17
St Hilary CP/AP		3,380	560	602	6	13	112	111	379	1,479	1,642	3,121	742	37	41	109	0	162	27	307	54	5	15	64
Illogan AP/CP		8,010	1,152	1,155	17	60	180	135	840	2,906	3,166	6,072	1,246	36	38	139	0	153	31	796	50	3	5	82
St Ives CP/Ch		1,850	924	1,004	37	41	65	258	681	2,367	2,409	4,776	1,241	22	56	24	0	320	52	740	15	12	8	103
St Just in Penwith CP/AP		7,820	773	869	18	26	109	80	680	2,459	2,208	4,667	1,099	29	71	81	0	106	11	741	38	22	19	66
Uny Lelant AP/CP		4,240	279	311	0	3	88	42	181	811	791	1,602	413	24	38	68	0	44	4	224	3	8	0	47
St Levan CP/ExP		2,400	94	94	0	3	74	19	1	254	261	515	118	16	16	48	0	14	3	2	13	6	2	31
Ludgvan CP/AP		4,560	394	428	6	5	136	47	245	1,177	1,145	2,322	536	33	47	79	0	59	7	263	30	18	24	37
Madron AP/CP		6,810	1,641	1,759	51	125	222	873	664	3,823	4,798	8,621	1,942	26	79	212	0	979	233	248	132	33	6	208
St Michaels Mount ExP/CP		70	40	42	0	2	0	41	1	94	67	161	43	0	0	0	0	37	1	0	5	0	0	6
Morvah Ch/CP		2,060	62	68	1	0	27	4	37	189	188	377	87	9	10	10	0	4	0	38	16	0	0	10
Paul AP/CP		3,500	849	891	7	55	111	95	685	2,010	2,181	4,191	1,036	37	59	110	1	149	14	612	35	19	2	89
Perranuthnoe CP/AP		1,600	188	193	6	4	29	14	150	516	517	1,033	233	21	16	45	0	21	1	122	2	5	10	19
Phillack AP/CP		2,880	582	626	15	28	33	195	398	1,482	1,571	3,053	701	17	8	60	-	201	31	357	21	6	6	59
Redruth CP/AP		3,770	1,308	1,603	27	94	135	385	1,083	3,876	4,315	8,191	1,683	20	50	126	0	489	71	848	67	12	13	203
Sancreed CP/AP		4,240	219	223	0	2	146	23	54	547	522	1,069	261	21	37	111	1	18	2	58	13	0	0	48
Sennen CP/Ch		2,350	117	128	2	5	66	13	49	312	377	689	141	17	5	57	0	19	0	22	21	0	0	37
Towednack Ch/CP		2,880	136	136	1	1	33	16	87	356	381	737	195	6	17	9	0	16	1	104	42	0	0	24
Zennor AP/CP		4,640	141	153	4	3	89	10	54	423	388	811	204	20	59	24	0	12	0	80	9	0	0	22
St Mary CP/AP		5,770	521	565	8	11	104	87	374	1,152	1,313	2,465	605	12	75	35	0	109	32	276	66	0	0	66

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

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.

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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.

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