Vision of Britain | 1891 Census: Population tables 2

1891 Census of England and Wales, Area, Houses and Population: Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts, Table 2 : " Area and Population in Registration Districts and Sub-Districts and in Civil Parishes".

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Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Area in Statute Acres [1]	Houses						Population
		Inhabited				Uninhabited				Building				Persons	Males	Females
		1881 [2]	1881 [3]	1881 [4]	1891 [5]	1891 [6]	1891 [7]	1881 [8]	1891 [9]	1881 [10]	1891 [11]	1881 [12]	1891 [13]
Wigan RegD/PLU Total	48,398	25,628	3,099	105	30,349	1,229	236	139,918	166,762	70,460	84,503	69,458	82,259
Standish SubD	10,727	1,524	109	6	1,733	91	5	8,135	9,481	4,204	4,835	3,931	4,646
Aspull SubD	6,428	2,465	311	4	2,619	195	2	13,533	14,143	6,942	7,249	6,591	6,894
Wigan SubD	2,188	8,767	1,303	45	9,980	369	50	48,194	55,013	23,508	27,085	24,686	27,928
Hindley SubD	6,913	6,051	607	39	7,707	270	57	33,360	42,537	17,026	21,858	16,334	20,679
Pemberton SubD	6,371	3,468	424	5	4,408	71	36	18,606	23,882	9,252	11,840	9,354	12,042
Upholland SubD	9,521	1,623	216	5	1,669	212	11	8,266	8,327	4,277	4,292	3,989	4,035
Ashton in Makerfield SubD	6,250	1,730	129	1	2,233	21	75	9,824	13,379	5,251	7,344	4,573	6,035

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Notes:

The following notes to the table appeared in the original report.

1	The Registration Districts of this Division are co-extensive with Poor Law Unions, except ...
2	Where the name of a Registration County in which a Parish is situated differs from that of the Administrative County to which it belongs, the name of the latter is added in italics. [further information on special cases in the specific division.]
3	(W) or (W.S.) denotes that a Workhouse or Workhouse School belonging to the District is situated within the limits of the Parish; (w) or (w.s.) that one of these institutions not belonging to the District is situated therein. A statement of the number of persons enumerated in Public Institutions in each District will be found in Table 8.
4	The places named in footnotes as being included in Civil Parishes are Hamlets, Villages, etc, or localities having no defined boundaries.
5	Under the Divided Parishes Acts of 1876, 1879 and 1882 numerous detached parts of Civil Parishes have been amalgamated with other Civil Parishes, and a statement of such transferences is given in Table 14.
6	Revised areas of Civil Parishes and parts of Parishes have been furnished by the Ordnance Survey Department.
7	The areas marked thus (w) either include water or relate to Parishes to which a portion of the tidal water or foreshore of contiguous rivers or creeks has been allotted. Such tidal water or foreshore is, however, not included in the areas. For details see Table 11.
8	Persons who, on the night of 5th April, 1891, were on board barges or boats employed in inland navigation, and those who were on board sea-going and coastal vessels in harbours, rivers and creeks, are included in the general population. For details see Table 9.

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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.