Year 1 or less 1 to 1.5 Over 1.5
1911 23,611 Show data context 12,360 Show data context 12,848 Show data context
1931 31,321 Show data context 11,278 Show data context 9,389 Show data context
1951 45,870 Show data context 10,406 Show data context 4,632 Show data context
1961 57,205 Show data context 7,667 Show data context 2,026 Show data context
1971 88,923 Show data context 7,865 Show data context 1,244 Show data context
1981 108,643 Show data context 7,035 Show data context 766 Show data context
1991 110,527 Show data context 3,533 Show data context 325 Show data context
2001 104,602 Show data context 1,715 Show data context 328 Show data context
2011 106,966 Show data context 1,556 Show data context 167 Show data context
Date: Source:
1911 1911 Census of England and Wales, Housing, Table 2 , 'Tenements in the Occupation of Private Families. - Classified by Number of Rooms and by Numbers of Occupants, in each Administrative County and in the Aggregates of Urban Districts (exclusive of County Boroughs) and of Rural Districts; also in Urban Districts (other than County Boroughs) and in Rural Districts, 1911'
1931 - 1951 1931 Census of England and Wales, County Report Part I, Table 11 , 'Private Families and Rooms Occupied'
1961 1961 Census of England and Wales, County Report, Table 19 , 'Population in all Private Households by Density of occupation (persons per room)', for 'LAA, Con, NT'
1971 1971 Census of England and Wales, County Report Part II, Table 24 , 'Persons in permanent buildings by density of occupation (persons per room)', for 'AC, CB, Urban areas with populations of 50,000 or more, Aggregates of MB and UD and aggregates of RD, NT and Con Centres. Urban Areas with populations of less than 50,000 and RD'
1981 - 2001 Census of Population
2011 Office for National Statistics, Neighbourhood Statistics (QS409EW)

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