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1911 Census of Scotland, Population, Ages and Conjugal Condition, Occupations, Birthplaces, Housing, Gaelic-speaking, Table 5 : " Distribution and Density of the Population in the Counties".
COUNTIES. | AREA. | DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION, 1911. | DENSITY OF POPULA- TION. | DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION Per cent. of Total of Scotland. | |||
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Number of Acres. | Per cent. of Total of Scotland. | Number of Persons. | Per cent. of Total of Scotland. | Persons per 100 acres. | |||
1901 | 1891 | ||||||
SCOTLAND | 19,070,466 | 100.0 | 4,760,904 | 100.0 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Aberdeen | 1,261,521 | 6.6 | 312,177 | 6.6 | 24.7 | 6.8 | 7.1 |
Argyll | 1,990,472 | 10.4 | 70,902 | 1.5 | 3.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
Ayr | 724,523 | 3.8 | 268,337 | 5.6 | 37.0 | 5.7 | 5.6 |
Banff | 403,053 | 2.1 | 61,402 | 1.3 | 15.2 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
Berwick | 292,535 | 1.5 | 29,643 | 0.6 | 10.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
Bute | 139,658 | 0.7 | 18,186 | 0.4 | 13.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
Caithness | 438,833 | 2.3 | 32,010 | 0.7 | 7.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
Clackmannan | 34,927 | 0.2 | 31,121 | 0.7 | 89.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
Dumbarton | 157,433 | 0.8 | 139,831 | 2.9 | 88.8 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
Dumfries | 686,302 | 3.6 | 72,825 | 1.5 | 10.6 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
Edinburgh | 234,325 | 1.2 | 507,666 | 10.7 | 216.7 | 10.9 | 10.8 |
Elgin (or Moray) | 304,931 | 1.6 | 43,427 | 0.9 | 14.2 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
Fife | 322,844 | 1.7 | 267,739 | 5.6 | 82.9 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
Forfar | 559,037 | 2.9 | 281,417 | 5.9 | 50.3 | 6.4 | 6.9 |
Haddington | 170,971 | 0.9 | 43,254 | 0.9 | 25.3 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
Inverness | 2,695,094 | 14.1 | 87,272 | 1.8 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 |
Kincardine | 244,482 | 1.3 | 41,008 | 0.9 | 16.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
Kinross | 52,410 | 0.3 | 7,527 | 0.2 | 14.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Kirkcudbright | 575,832 | 3.0 | 38,367 | 0.8 | 6.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
Lanark | 562,821 | 3.0 | 1,447,034 | 30.4 | 257.1 | 30.0 | 27.5 |
Linlithgow | 76,861 | 0.4 | 80,155 | 1.7 | 104.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
Nairn | 104,252 | 0.6 | 9,319 | 0.2 | 8.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Orkney | 240,847 | 1.3 | 25,897 | 0.5 | 10.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
Peebles | 222,240 | 1.2 | 15,258 | 0.3 | 6.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
Perth | 1,595,802 | 8.4 | 124,342 | 2.6 | 7.8 | 2.8 | 3.0 |
Renfrew | 153,332 | 0.8 | 314,552 | 6.6 | 205.1 | 6.0 | 5.7 |
Ross and Cromarty | 1,977,248 | 10.4 | 77,364 | 1.6 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 2.0 |
Roxburgh | 426,028 | 2.2 | 47,192 | 1.0 | 11.1 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
Selkirk | 170,793 | 0.9 | 24,601 | 0.5 | 14.4 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
Shetland | 352,319 | 1.9 | 27,911 | 0.6 | 7.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
Stirling | 288,842 | 1.5 | 160,991 | 3.4 | 55.7 | 3.2 | 2.9 |
Sutherland | 1,297,914 | 6.8 | 20,179 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
Wigtown | 311,984 | 1.6 | 31,998 | 0.7 | 10.3 | 0.7 | 0.9 |