Vision of Ireland | 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]
Ford Hundred Total	39,000	1,291	1,412	1	50	664	282	466	3,517	3,381	6,898	1,792	177	56	694	2	368	31	325	96	43	17	359
Alberbury AP/Tn	6,040	338	360	1	16	232	80	48	907	892	1,799	501	57	28	248	1	77	8	43	27	12	2	134
Cardeston CP/AP	1,980	59	73	0	3	59	10	4	172	142	314	86	8	1	49	0	25	0	0	3	0	0	15
Ford AP/CP	2,140	41	57	0	0	39	7	11	134	129	263	72	7	10	34	1	6	0	1	8	5	0	19
Habberley AP/CP	1,110	19	26	0	0	15	6	5	73	55	128	45	6	0	15	0	10	1	8	5	0	0	6
Pontesbury AP/CP	9,810	575	605	0	22	200	133	272	1,472	1,464	2,936	744	62	20	227	0	181	13	167	52	22	15	138
Westbury AP/CP	17,920	413	449	1	13	217	83	149	1,146	1,082	2,228	556	60	18	216	0	105	9	127	17	4	0	110
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 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
Great Hanwood CP/AP	130	32	35	1	0	24	9	2	69	87	156	42	2	4	17	0	16	2	0	0	1	0	12

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

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.