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1911 Census of England and Wales, General Report with Appendices, Table 13 : " Dioceses. - Number of Parishes and Population in each Diocese, 1911".
Dioceses. | Number of Ecclesiastical Parishes. | Number of Extra Parochial Places. | Total Population, 1911. | Average Population per Parish,* |
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London | 578 | 11 | 3,811,827 | 6,592 |
Manchester | 580 | 2 | 3,251,014 | 5,605 |
Southwark | 310 | | 2,235,352 | 7,211 |
York | 656 | 12 | 1,946,347 | 2,967 |
St. Albans | 635 | 4 | 1,658,179 | 2,611 |
Liverpool | 212 | 2 | 1,469,640 | 6,932 |
Durham | 251 | 5 | 1,370,015 | 5,456 |
Winchester | 568 | 21 | 1,328,552 | 2,336 |
Southwell | 485 | 22 | 1,318,256 | 2,705 |
Llandaff | 267 | 10 | 1,316,844 | 4,931 |
Lichfield | 449 | 20 | 1,308,219 | 2,910 |
Ripon | 364 | 3 | 1,192,067 | 3,275 |
Birmingham | 145 | | 1,018,289 | 7,023 |
Chester | 274 | 11 | 932,470 | 3,400 |
Peterborough | 593 | 37 | 840,821 | 1,408 |
Wakefield | 176 | 1 | 791,259 | 4,496 |
Norwich | 901 | 16 | 777,332 | 862 |
Worcester | 383 | 14 | 705,085 | 1,840 |
Newcastle | 181 | 6 | 699,968 | 3,866 |
Exeter | 510 | 13 | 695,865 | 1,363 |
Oxford | 656 | 19 | 691,229 | 1,052 |
Chichester | 376 | 5 | 665,031 | 1,768 |
Canterbury | 308 | 16 | 652,397 | 2,110 |
St. David.s | 408 | 9 | 586,791 | 1,437 |
Ely | 562 | 16 | 568,916 | 1,011 |
Lincoln | 579 | 44 | 562,308 | 968 |
Rochester | 200 | 1 | 557,771 | 2,788 |
Bristol | 182 | 1 | 508,241 | 2,792 |
Bath and Wells | 500 | 8 | 465,626 | 930 |
Carlisle | 297 | 9 | 429,582 | 1,445 |
Salisbury | 491 | 20 | 404,605 | 821 |
Truro | 233 | 3 | 330,655 | 1,419 |
Gloucester | 318 | 17 | 328,653 | 1,026 |
St. Asaph | 207 | 2 | 313,233 | 1,512 |
Hereford | 377 | 17 | 219,022 | 580 |
Bangor | 145 | 3 | 215,930 | 1,489 |
Sodor and Man | 25 | 1 | 52,016 | 2,081 |
*Excluding the population of Extra-Parochial Places.