1871 Census of Scotland, Population of Scotland with Report: Population of various types of areas, Houses, Table 1 : " Scotland in Civil Counties and Parishes, showing the Acreage, the number of Families, of Houses Inhabited, Uninhabited, and Building; the number of the total Population and of Persons of each Sex; the number of Children from 5 to 13 years of age in the receipt of Education; the number of Rooms with Windows; the number of Persons temporarily absent or present in each Parish or subdivision thereof on the 3d April 1871. For comparison's sake, there is added the number of Families, Persons of each Sex, Houses, and Rooms, with Windows in 1861".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		Area in Acres. [1]	1871															1861
			Separate Families. [2]	HOUSES			PERSONS			Children from 5 to 13 receiving Education. [9]	Rooms with one or more Windows. [10]	Temporarily Absent			Temporarily Present			Separate Families. [17]	HOUSES			PERSONS			Rooms with one or more Windows. [24]
				Inhabited. [3]	Uninhabited. [4]	Building. [5]	Males. [6]	Females. [7]	Total. [8]			Males. [11]	Females. [12]	Total. [13]	Males. [14]	Females. [15]	Total. [16]		Inhabited. [18]	Uninhabited. [19]	Building. [20]	Males. [21]	Females. [22]	Total. [23]
Scotland Dep Total		-	740,748	412,185	19,223	3,165	1,603,143	1,756,875	3,360,018	494,860	1,992,199	13,922	9,530	23,452	13,326	13,869	27,195	678,584	393,220	13,220	3,224	1,449,848	1,612,446	3,062,294	1,708,405
Shetland ScoCnty		-	6,506	5,667	178	11	13,103	18,505	31,608	3,805	11,417	675	53	728	74	66	140	6,327	5,517	75	15	13,053	18,617	31,670	9,966
Orkney ScoCnty		-	7,193	6,288	195	16	14,355	16,919	31,274	4,627	16,320	97	84	181	111	96	207	7,430	6,064	125	57	14,924	17,471	32,395	15,469
Caithness ScoCnty		-	8,825	7,474	203	41	18,937	21,055	39,992	6,445	21,715	100	87	187	135	115	250	8,952	7,457	92	126	19,352	21,759	41,111	19,496
Sutherland ScoCnty		-	5,298	4,914	80	41	11,408	12,909	24,317	3,446	15,537	205	131	336	251	135	386	5,382	4,926	72	27	11,552	13,694	25,246	13,933
Ross and Cromarty ScoCnty		-	17,961	15,713	436	65	38,050	42,905	80,955	11,157	46,892	625	346	971	384	331	715	17,976	15,728	264	60	38,023	43,383	81,406	43,109
Inverness Shire ScoCnty		-	19,289	16,575	424	81	40,879	46,652	87,531	12,000	54,981	660	318	978	636	489	1,125	19,368	16,577	241	78	41,155	47,106	88,261	47,484
Nairnshire ScoCnty		-	2,354	2,029	89	10	4,786	5,439	10,225	1,413	7,679	46	35	81	57	49	106	2,393	2,023	51	11	4,750	5,315	10,065	6,581
Moray ScoCnty		-	9,893	8,452	399	35	20,292	23,320	43,612	7,381	34,114	225	167	392	189	189	378	9,939	8,135	268	77	20,217	23,105	43,322	30,444
Banffshire ScoCnty		-	13,352	11,603	370	80	29,367	32,656	62,023	10,991	40,342	422	278	700	238	232	470	12,873	11,091	318	92	28,000	31,215	59,215	35,576
Aberdeenshire ScoCnty		-	53,576	34,589	1,052	256	115,909	128,694	244,603	40,573	161,711	1,458	724	2,182	873	899	1,772	49,842	32,762	776	216	104,441	117,128	221,569	137,702
Kincardineshire ScoCnty		245,346	7,808	6,661	385	49	16,784	17,846	34,630	5,647	24,939	223	131	354	241	258	499	7,931	6,697	254	45	16,744	17,722	34,466	22,192
Angus ScoCnty		560,087	55,154	25,663	1,363	191	106,324	131,243	237,567	34,852	137,798	950	555	1,505	553	707	1,260	47,871	23,460	807	196	92,223	112,202	204,425	113,694
Perthshire ScoCnty		1,614,806	30,646	22,134	1,329	97	60,663	67,105	127,768	19,691	100,035	608	499	1,107	1,024	558	1,582	32,047	22,035	893	158	63,428	70,072	133,500	92,957
Fife ScoCnty		314,953	37,981	27,056	1,857	154	75,127	85,608	160,735	26,426	103,576	688	532	1,220	394	458	852	37,143	26,029	1,326	153	72,608	82,162	154,770	93,371
Kinross Shire ScoCnty		46,485	1,883	1,517	128	2	3,390	3,808	7,198	1,130	6,004	26	27	53	45	54	99	2,030	1,644	100	8	3,787	4,190	7,977	5,590
Clackmannanshire ScoCnty		30,477	5,316	3,316	158	35	11,555	12,192	23,747	4,005	13,333	45	76	121	50	35	85	4,917	2,996	143	22	10,401	11,049	21,450	11,485
Stirlingshire ScoCnty		286,338	21,130	13,275	723	80	48,215	50,003	98,218	15,369	56,443	311	218	529	612	1,023	1,635	20,248	12,271	578	68	45,135	46,791	91,926	49,746
Dunbartonshire ScoCnty		154,542	12,396	7,638	425	63	28,857	30,000	58,857	7,958	35,231	181	220	401	269	229	498	11,360	5,893	359	69	25,387	26,647	52,034	28,662
Argyll ScoCnty		-	16,589	13,497	830	77	36,926	38,753	75,679	11,386	50,259	449	303	752	605	380	985	17,277	13,923	633	113	38,928	40,796	79,724	44,021
Buteshire ScoCnty		139,440	3,946	2,433	152	26	7,623	9,354	16,977	2,373	12,882	191	102	293	166	108	274	3,779	2,322	82	26	7,208	9,123	16,331	11,199
Renfrewshire ScoCnty		156,785	46,531	13,551	327	181	103,669	113,278	216,947	29,010	109,628	658	532	1,190	606	695	1,301	39,188	11,934	267	131	83,457	94,104	177,561	87,887
Ayrshire ScoCnty		722,229	42,725	26,798	1,338	151	98,198	102,611	200,809	30,576	105,470	660	576	1,236	1,155	897	2,052	43,296	25,727	878	224	96,994	101,977	198,971	95,861
Lanarkshire ScoCnty		564,284	164,408	47,962	1,946	609	377,874	387,465	765,339	99,654	356,420	1,966	1,578	3,544	1,881	2,452	4,333	132,499	46,675	1,787	496	304,151	327,415	631,566	293,906
West Lothian ScoCnty		76,800	8,556	6,255	533	31	20,855	20,110	40,965	7,361	19,930	139	82	221	121	113	234	8,375	5,392	166	37	19,868	18,777	38,645	17,794
Midlothian ScoCnty		231,724	73,865	27,856	1,404	442	153,892	174,487	328,379	47,528	228,578	973	634	1,607	1,067	1,576	2,643	62,436	24,162	802	308	126,390	147,607	273,997	185,866
East Lothian ScoCnty		173,298	8,491	7,179	652	57	18,076	19,695	37,771	6,158	27,240	89	109	198	125	166	291	8,676	6,802	429	46	17,854	19,780	37,634	24,536
Berwickshire ScoCnty		294,805	7,827	6,491	399	27	17,414	19,072	36,486	5,900	24,887	155	175	330	153	185	338	7,912	6,385	303	57	17,423	19,190	36,613	22,201
Peebles Shire ScoCnty		226,899	2,614	2,187	168	14	5,955	6,375	12,330	1,939	8,876	60	102	162	162	82	244	2,410	1,982	102	23	5,658	5,750	11,408	7,475
Selkirkshire ScoCnty		164,545	2,890	1,741	59	19	6,731	7,274	14,005	2,084	8,799	38	53	91	69	68	137	2,237	1,468	36	9	5,097	5,352	10,449	6,340
Roxburghshire ScoCnty		425,638	11,547	7,829	305	64	25,738	28,236	53,974	8,672	35,889	227	206	433	290	293	583	11,626	7,757	221	77	26,782	27,337	54,119	31,971
Dumfries Shire ScoCnty		680,217	16,494	13,646	682	81	34,815	39,993	74,808	12,447	53,476	396	374	770	404	542	946	16,591	13,192	373	93	35,674	40,204	75,878	46,186
Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty		574,587	9,284	7,457	377	47	19,497	22,362	41,859	6,955	33,837	218	128	346	215	221	436	9,386	7,326	233	66	19,789	22,706	42,495	30,554
Wigtownshire ScoCnty		310,742	8,420	6,739	257	32	17,879	20,951	38,830	5,921	27,961	158	95	253	171	168	339	8,867	6,868	166	40	19,395	22,700	42,095	25,151

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

Rate	Date
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1861
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1871
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)	1871

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