Edinburgh ScoP through time | Population Statistics

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Year	Population 30 years earlier	Population 20 years earlier	Population 10 years earlier	Current Total Population
1801				82,560
1811			82,560	102,987
1821			102,987	138,235
1831			138,235	161,909
1841			161,909	166,450
1851			166,450	193,929
1861			193,929	169,407
1871			169,407	202,617
1881			202,617	233,755
1891			233,755	256,385
1901			264,578	303,638
1911			317,459	320,318
1921			424,046	420,264
1931		424,046	420,264	439,010
1951	420,264	439,010		466,761
1961			466,761	468,430
1971			468,430	453,584

Date:	Source:
1801 - 1861	1851 Census of Great Britain, Population tables 2, Table [1] , 'Population Abstract'
1861 - 1871	1871 Census of Scotland, Population summary, Table 1 , 'Scotland in Civil Counties and Parishes, showing the Acreage, the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of Persons of each Sex; the number of Children from 5 to 13 years of age in the receipt of Education; the number of Rooms with Windows; the number of Persons temporarily absent or present in each Parish or subdivision thereof on the 3d April 1871. For comparison's sake, there is added the number of Families, Persons of each Sex, Houses, and Rooms, with Windows in 1861'
1881 - 1971	1971 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 5 B, 'Population, historical table, selected censuses 1801-1971', for 'Civil parishes'
1901	[ERROR: authority is ''SRC'' but auth_note value of S1901GEN1_M1_1 does not appear in SRC_TAB]
1911	1911 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Population of Civil Parishes'
1921	1921 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Population of Burghs, County Public Health Districts, and Civil Parishes of XXXXX in 1921 and in 1911'
1931	1931 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Population of Burghs, Districts of Counties, and Civil Parishes'
1951	1951 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Comparison of population, density per 100 acres, and houses with 1931', for 'Burghs, Districts of Counties and CPs'

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Date:	Acknowledgments:
1971	National Records of Scotland. Role: owner. Restrictions on use: all census data 1966-2011 is Crown copyright but is now available free of charge under the Open Government Licence. You are free to copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; adapt the Information; exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application; but you must acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to the Open Government Licence.

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1971

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The 1831 census provides information, down to parish-level, on the occupations of males aged over 20 using nine categories. Here we reorganise this information to provide a crude measure of social status, based more on contemporary ideas than on modern definitions of social class: "middling sorts" combines small farmers not employing labourers with both masters and skilled workers in urban manufacturing and handicrafts.

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