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	Stepney	List for Middlesex 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]
Stepney CP/AP Total	2,130	11,215	15,885	316	1,223	51	9,574	6,260	31,253	36,619	67,872	15,851	14	17	75	574	6,231	2,386	5,901	560	93	52	1,464
Bethnal Green Vest/ExP/CP	760	10,877	14,241	70	1,169	50	11,962	2,229	29,668	32,350	62,018	15,511	7	0	64	5,651	5,864	564	2,723	611	27	1	164
St George in the East ParPart/Vest/CP	230	5,764	10,090	17	476	0	6,000	4,090	17,659	20,846	38,505	9,749	0	0	0	102	5,025	261	4,114	215	32	0	555
Limehouse CP/ExP	280	2,607	3,783	21	250	6	3,717	60	7,460	8,235	15,695	3,720	6	0	52	143	1,376	414	1,205	449	75	81	433
Shadwell ParLib/CP	70	1,493	2,314	15	124	0	905	1,409	4,556	4,988	9,544	2,661	0	0	0	0	895	42	1,714	9	1	2	275
Bow CP/ExP	630	603	685	25	88	16	265	404	1,531	1,840	3,371	814	7	3	32	58	225	100	206	166	17	27	190
Wapping Hmlt/CP/AP	38	518	808	3	52	0	676	132	1,715	1,849	3,564	1,018	0	0	0	5	348	57	526	73	9	2	189

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.