1891 Census of England and Wales, Area, Houses and Population: Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts, Table 2 : " Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes".

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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
			Inhabited				Uninhabited				Building				Persons		Males		Females
			1881 [2]	1881 [3]	1881 [4]	1891 [5]	1891 [6]	1891 [7]	1881 [8]	1891 [9]	1881 [10]	1891 [11]	1881 [12]	1891 [13]
Somerset RegC Total		1,061,614	99,558	7,324	655	104,994	7,909	774	491,225	510,076	231,658	238,638	259,567	271,438
Williton RegD/PLU		103,162	3,864	252	12	3,712	366	24	18,677	17,269	9,197	8,355	9,480	8,914
Dulverton RegD/PLU		59,627	1,136	57	4	1,072	86	1	5,475	4,988	2,814	2,550	2,661	2,438
Wellington RegD/PLU		61,093	4,127	293	16	4,098	415	16	19,144	18,410	9,271	8,833	9,873	9,577
Taunton RegD/PLU		73,109	7,614	463	47	7,934	788	24	36,107	36,779	16,948	16,978	19,159	19,801
Bridgwater RegD/PLU		88,475	7,211	565	17	7,303	640	25	33,667	33,273	16,538	16,167	17,129	17,106
Langport RegD/PLU		59,410	3,477	237	9	3,348	298	10	15,470	14,478	7,518	6,880	7,952	7,598
Chard RegD/PLU		61,328	5,426	266	16	5,420	360	25	25,382	24,795	12,116	11,628	13,266	13,167
Yeovil RegD/PLU		53,350	5,813	370	19	6,069	395	39	27,706	27,902	12,840	12,852	14,866	15,050
Wincanton RegD/PLU		68,235	4,369	285	14	4,282	302	3	19,770	19,169	9,461	9,088	10,309	10,081
Frome RegD/PLU		52,752	5,171	482	11	5,128	564	7	23,161	22,850	11,066	10,850	12,095	12,000
Shepton Mallet RegD/PLU		50,109	3,514	261	13	3,517	256	12	15,703	15,559	7,587	7,407	8,116	8,152
Wells RegD/PLU		66,646	4,660	277	37	4,892	337	44	22,461	23,856	10,809	11,416	11,652	12,440
Axbridge RegD/PLU		97,436	8,075	559	72	8,913	736	42	40,435	43,189	18,443	19,158	21,992	24,031
Clutton RegD/PLU		47,897	5,236	291	25	5,376	371	38	24,121	24,904	12,353	12,670	11,768	12,234
Bath RegD/PLU		30,727	12,525	1,011	106	13,760	1,169	165	70,744	75,196	30,129	32,264	40,615	42,932
Keynsham RegD/PLU		33,570	5,288	493	71	6,082	220	127	25,781	29,885	12,570	14,632	13,211	15,253
Long Ashton RegD/PLU		54,688	12,052	1,162	166	14,088	606	172	67,421	77,574	31,998	36,910	35,423	40,664

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

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1891
Population Density (Persons per Acre)	1891
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1891

Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The Registration Districts of this Division are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions, except ...
2	Where the name of a Registration County in which a Parish is situated differs from that of the Administrative County to which it belongs, the name of the latter is added in italics. [further information on special cases in the specific division.]
3	(W) or (W.S.) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the Parish; (w) or (w.s.) that one of these institutions not belonging to the District is situated therein. A statement of the number of persons enumerated in Public Institutions in each District will be found in Table 8.
4	The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are Hamlets, Villages, etc, or localities having no defined boundaries.
5	Under the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876, 1879 and 1882 numerous detached parts of Civil Parishes have been amalgamated with other Civil Parishes, and a statement of such transferences is given in Table 14.
6	Revised areas of Civil Parishes and parts of Parishes have been furnished by the Ordnance Survey Department.
7	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 11.
8	Persons who, on the night of 5th April, 1891, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going and coastal vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included in the general population. For details see Table 9.

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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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