Vision of Britain | 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".

List for top level	Essex	List for England Dep

click on 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]
Essex AncC Total	979,000	57,158	65,319	354	1,860	34,599	18,282	12,438	159,015	158,492	317,507	79,023	4,561	888	38,234	871	18,953	2,960	6,727	4,056	1,773	846	11,876
Barstable Hundred	73,290	2,247	2,614	4	59	1,815	502	297	7,019	6,162	13,181	3,521	268	40	2,164	9	639	86	104	145	66	39	491
Becontree Hundred	35,950	6,118	7,197	51	358	2,312	2,239	2,646	16,609	18,315	34,924	8,020	195	30	2,263	230	2,196	671	1,505	467	463	116	1,806
Chafford Hundred	34,930	1,784	1,992	13	40	989	603	400	5,092	4,896	9,988	2,726	162	46	1,187	1	850	94	201	109	76	37	440
Chelmsford Hundred	81,560	4,916	5,648	32	138	2,892	1,838	918	13,900	13,279	27,179	7,156	419	95	3,451	31	1,867	321	443	383	146	61	1,139
Clavering Hundred	18,140	809	870	8	17	612	149	109	2,044	2,018	4,062	1,013	68	3	632	0	177	16	10	91	16	6	105
Dengie Hundred	56,410	1,609	1,949	6	36	1,345	404	200	5,184	4,731	9,915	2,608	164	32	1,769	0	422	47	73	66	35	37	299
Dunmow Hundred	54,670	2,367	2,663	7	36	1,781	521	361	6,538	6,253	12,791	3,307	291	36	1,929	0	609	56	160	187	39	15	353
Freshwell Hundred	27,710	1,332	1,488	19	21	1,079	266	143	3,445	3,362	6,807	1,761	129	20	1,126	0	299	25	39	104	19	12	173
Harlow Hundred	28,660	1,365	1,682	1	26	1,052	333	297	3,933	3,863	7,796	1,974	156	25	1,117	0	367	42	108	125	34	18	294
Havering Atte Bower Liberty	12,550	1,217	1,383	5	63	594	484	305	3,381	3,431	6,812	1,805	72	3	717	4	572	90	120	187	40	18	301
Hinckford Hundred	109,610	7,887	8,500	41	224	5,032	2,301	1,167	19,896	20,287	40,183	9,647	539	87	5,067	334	2,206	236	522	506	150	86	1,118
Lexden Hundred	62,060	3,556	4,375	21	72	2,631	1,054	690	10,852	10,658	21,510	5,393	366	89	2,738	102	1,081	155	480	270	112	61	691
Ongar Hundred	58,060	2,414	2,795	7	79	1,787	615	393	7,572	7,143	14,715	3,714	303	65	2,026	0	713	103	224	182	98	34	627
Rochford Hundred	57,980	2,274	2,617	13	87	1,582	621	414	7,120	6,484	13,604	3,616	191	22	2,149	0	716	108	305	90	35	32	492
Tendring Hundred	80,840	3,955	4,726	15	92	2,901	1,092	733	11,479	11,307	22,786	5,668	421	73	3,209	0	1,102	149	439	195	80	40	810
Thurstable Hundred	23,640	1,166	1,212	3	41	749	290	173	3,051	2,891	5,942	1,463	101	20	768	1	321	29	178	19	26	28	166
Uttlesford Hundred	52,170	2,210	2,647	5	35	1,880	467	300	6,417	6,078	12,495	3,088	211	31	1,976	1	516	74	79	130	70	44	341
Waltham Hundred	25,240	1,581	1,666	11	108	732	559	375	4,172	4,179	8,351	2,154	106	60	788	61	625	115	258	89	52	22	308
Winstree Hundred	23,790	735	907	0	5	655	185	67	2,271	2,140	4,411	1,165	96	28	759	0	183	16	59	17	7	9	123
Witham Hundred	37,830	2,128	2,346	20	60	1,221	625	500	5,494	5,504	10,998	2,742	175	24	1,375	20	709	97	123	151	68	26	441
Colchester Borough	11,770	3,216	3,488	25	119	490	2,079	919	7,471	8,696	16,167	3,745	69	34	530	73	1,738	250	745	225	81	65	798
Harwich Borough	2,060	660	830	5	78	75	215	540	1,899	2,398	4,297	791	21	3	96	3	271	57	124	204	12	6	170
Maldon Borough	2,700	671	724	9	48	122	306	296	1,859	1,972	3,831	830	15	12	147	0	368	55	145	61	27	30	198
Saffron Walden AD_Town	7,380	941	1,000	33	18	271	534	195	2,317	2,445	4,762	1,116	23	10	251	1	406	68	283	53	21	4	192

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.

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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.