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1911 Census of England and Wales, General Report with Appendices, Table 76 : " Number of Tenements of Various Sizes and their Population in the Principal Cities of the United Kingdom".
City. | Totals. | Number of rooms. | Non- private. | |||||||||
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1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | 10 or more. | |||
London | ||||||||||||
Tenements | 1,033,861 | 138,226 | 196,405 | 219,158 | 164,776 | 94,204 | 72,841 | 45,673 | 31,518 | 18,713 | 42,437 | 9,910 |
Population | 4,521,685 | 265,553 | 673,619 | 901,603 | 787,159 | 484,035 | 379,873 | 229,330 | 163,076 | 100,198 | 268,677 | 268,562 |
Edinburgh | ||||||||||||
Houses* | 69,762 | 6,588 | 21,927 | 15,291 | 10,057 | 4,730 | 2,745 | 1,896 | 1,630 | 1,287 | 3,473 | 138 |
Population | 320,318 | 17,854 | 94,529 | 69,598 | 46,223 | 21,216 | 12,538 | 8,697 | 7,628 | 6,361 | 21,237 | 14,437 |
Glasgow | ||||||||||||
Houses* | 163,057 | 32,606 | 75,536 | 30,775 | 10,817 | 4,490 | 2,694 | 1,560 | 1,009 | 880 | 2,421 | 269 |
Population | 784,496 | 103,815 | 367,341 | 160,083 | 54,238 | 21,961 | 13,453 | 8,120 | 5,483 | 4,907 | 15,133 | 29,962 |
Dublin | ||||||||||||
Tenements | 62,365 | 21,133 | 13,087 | 6,577 | 6,475 | 15,093 | ||||||
Population | 304,802 | 69,888 | 59,173 | 32,331 | 33,478 | 109,932 | ||||||
Belfast | ||||||||||||
Tenements | 77,370 | 448 | 3,205 | 3,898 | 18,505 | 51,314 | ||||||
Population | 386,947 | 1,000 | 10,213 | 16,395 | 86,372 | 272,967 | ||||||
Liverpool | ||||||||||||
Tenements | 151,891 | 8,213 | 11,212 | 20,106 | 28,142 | 43,586 | 17,940 | 9,576 | 5,221 | 2,640 | 4,095 | 1,160 |
Population | 746,421 | 17,135 | 37,652 | 91,316 | 129,072 | 219,851 | 91,717 | 50,971 | 29,654 | 14,661 | 24,854 | 39,538 |
Manchester | ||||||||||||
Tenements | 152,317 | 2,791 | 5,333 | 14,696 | 62,017 | 34,514 | 15,476 | 7,649 | 4,612 | 2,263 | 2,261 | 705 |
Population | 714,333 | 4,989 | 15,400 | 61,300 | 271,224 | 171,886 | 75,019 | 39,061 | 24,053 | 11,985 | 13,124 | 26,292 |
Birmingham | ||||||||||||
Tenements | 111,818 | 1,157 | 2,372 | 33,938 | 18,414 | 25,537 | 19,582 | 4,828 | 2,793 | 1,000 | 1,702 | 495 |
Population | 525,833 | 1,901 | 6,605 | 145,699 | 80,964 | 126,261 | 94,866 | 24,598 | 14,310 | 5,332 | 10,224 | 15,073 |
* Defined as "every dwelling (1) with a distinct Outside Entrance from a street, court, lane, road, etc., or (2) with a door opening directly into a Common Stair or Passage." If any such dwelling were sub-divided and occupied by different families the Scottish enumerators were instructed to reckon it as only one house.