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1911 Census of Scotland, Population, Ages and Conjugal Condition, Occupations, Birthplaces, Housing, Gaelic-speaking, Table 13 : " Intercensal Change in the Burghal and Extraburghal Population of the Counties".
COUNTIES. | INTERCENSAL CHANGE IN | |||||||||
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Total Population of County. | Burghal Population. | Extraburghal Population. | ||||||||
All Burghs | Royal and Parliamentary Burghs. | Police Burghs. | ||||||||
Actual. | Per cent. | Actual. | Per cent. | Actual. | Per cent. | Actual. | Per cent. | Actual. | Per cent. | |
SCOTLAND | 288,801 | 6.5 | 188,999 | 6.4 | 96,070 | 4.1 | 92,929 | 14.6 | 99,802 | 6.6 |
Aberdeen | 7,738 | 2.5 | 12,536 | 6.9 | 11,096 | 6.9 | 1,440 | 7.0 | -4,798 | -3.9 |
Argyll | -2,740 | -3.7 | -1,175 | -5.0 | -676 | -4.7 | -499 | -5.4 | -1,565 | -3.1 |
Ayr | 13,869 | 5.5 | 10,828 | 8.3 | 5,413 | 7.5 | 5,415 | 9.3 | 3,041 | 2.5 |
Banff | -86 | -0.1 | 1,166 | 4.3 | 145 | 2.6 | 1,021 | 4.9 | -1,252 | -3.7 |
Berwick | -1,181 | -3.8 | -245 | -3.6 | -65 | -9.0 | -180 | -3.0 | -936 | -3.9 |
Bute | -601 | -3.2 | -135 | -1.2 | -79 | -0.8 | -56 | -3.4 | -466 | -6.0 |
Caithness | -1,860 | -2.8 | 499 | 4.2 | 887 | 10.8 | -388 | -10.4 | -2,359 | -10.7 |
Clackmannan | -908 | -5.5 | -309 | -1.5 | | | -309 | -1.5 | -599 | -5.5 |
Dumbarton | 25,966 | 22.8 | 20,825 | 32.3 | 2,004 | 10.0 | 18,821 | 42.2 | 5,141 | 10.4 |
Dumfries | 254 | 0.3 | 354 | 1.2 | 543 | 2.4 | -189 | -2.5 | -100 | -0.2 |
Edinburgh | 18,870 | 3.9 | 10,647 | 2.5 | 9,978 | 2.5 | 669 | 4.1 | 8,223 | 12.5 |
Elgin (or Moray) | -1,373 | -3.1 | -78 | -0.4 | 7 | 0.0 | -85 | -1.0 | -1,295 | -5.6 |
Fife | 48,899 | 22.3 | 27,320 | 20.1 | 10,548 | 11.1 | 16,772 | 41.1 | 21,579 | 26.1 |
Forfar | -2,665 | -0.9 | -860 | -0.4 | -2,232 | -1.0 | 1,372 | 6.3 | -1,805 | -4.1 |
Haddington | 4,589 | 11.9 | 2,739 | 15.6 | 256 | 2.4 | 2,483 | 35.0 | 1,850 | 8.8 |
Inverness | -2,832 | -3.1 | -762 | -2.9 | -859 | -3.7 | 97 | 3.2 | -2,070 | -3.2 |
Kincardine | 85 | 0.2 | 1,781 | 9.8 | 2,008 | 19.0 | -227 | -3.0 | -1,696 | -7.4 |
Kinross | 546 | 7.8 | 441 | 20.3 | | | 441 | 20.3 | 105 | 2.2 |
Kirkcudbright | -1,016 | -2.6 | 104 | 0.6 | -205 | -7.4 | 309 | 2.3 | -1,120 | -4.8 |
Lanark | 107,707 | 8.0 | 62,997 | 5.8 | 29,429 | 3.3 | 33,568 | 17.7 | 44,710 | 17.3 |
Linlithgow | 14,447 | 22.0 | 5,631 | 20.4 | 1,383 | 22.6 | 4,248 | 19.8 | 8,816 | 23.1 |
Nairn | 28 | 0.3 | 174 | 3.9 | 174 | 3.9 | | | -146 | -3.0 |
Orkney | -2,802 | -9.8 | -698 | -11.3 | 99 | 2.7 | -797 | -32.5 | -2,104 | -9.3 |
Peebles | 192 | 1.3 | 654 | 8.8 | 288 | 5.5 | 366 | 16.8 | -462 | -6.1 |
Perth | 1,059 | 0.9 | 2,241 | 3.9 | 1,859 | 5.5 | 382 | 1.6 | -1,182 | -1.8 |
Renfrew | 45,572 | 16.9 | 21,838 | 10.3 | 15,486 | 8.9 | 6,352 | 17.0 | 23,734 | 41.6 |
Ross and Cromarty | 914 | 1.2 | 590 | 5.2 | 665 | 10.3 | -75 | -1.5 | 324 | 0.5 |
Roxburgh | -1,612 | -3.3 | -865 | -3.2 | -810 | -4.0 | -55 | -0.9 | -747 | -3.4 |
Selkirk | 1,245 | 5.3 | 1,147 | 6.0 | 1,147 | 6.0 | | | 98 | 2.4 |
Shetland | -255 | -0.9 | 383 | 8.9 | | | 383 | 8.9 | -638 | -2.7 |
Stirling | 18,700 | 13.1 | 8,882 | 12.3 | 7,091 | 14.9 | 1,791 | 7.2 | 9,818 | 14.1 |
Sutherland | -1,261 | -5.9 | 117 | 18.8 | 117 | 18.8 | | | -1,378 | -6.6 |
Wigtown | -687 | -2.1 | 232 | 2.1 | 373 | 4.3 | -141 | -6.4 | -919 | -4.2 |