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	Becontree	List for Essex AncC

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]
Becontree Hundred Total	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
Barking AP/CP	10,170	1,486	1,651	11	90	569	450	632	3,916	4,120	8,036	1,856	55	2	646	0	407	101	490	96	59	29	264
Dagenham CP/AP	4,550	413	431	1	25	288	112	31	1,074	1,044	2,118	541	30	6	316	0	107	15	53	7	7	0	40
East Ham AP/CP	2,800	260	355	0	15	284	42	29	756	787	1,543	363	12	0	269	0	52	10	8	6	6	0	44
West Ham AP/CP	5,160	1,984	2,354	33	106	343	944	1,067	5,436	6,144	11,580	2,635	41	1	348	202	935	235	620	186	67	42	606
Little Ilford AP/CP	750	22	23	1	0	17	2	4	56	59	115	31	4	0	16	0	2	2	7	0	0	0	8
Leyton AP/CP	2,820	573	763	2	49	225	226	312	1,528	1,795	3,323	795	13	3	191	6	216	65	123	63	115	15	232
Walthamstow CP/AP	3,690	737	855	3	36	422	256	177	1,990	2,268	4,258	917	24	9	304	22	233	117	71	37	100	21	335
Wanstead AP/CP	1,920	243	306	0	15	46	64	196	604	799	1,403	331	4	5	37	0	71	61	62	26	65	3	150
Woodford AP/CP	4,090	400	459	0	22	118	143	198	1,249	1,299	2,548	551	12	4	136	0	173	65	71	46	44	6	127

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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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.