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Trade directories: Population statistics for Shropshire (Pigot's Directory, 1821-1822)

Population statistics for Shropshire, 1821-1822 [Shropshire Archive reference: Pigot's Directory, 1821-1822]

POPULATION - According to the census of 1821, there were houses inhabited in the county, 38,663; uninhabited, 1,012; and houses building, 179. The number of families then resident in the county was 41,636; comprising 102,056 males, and 104,097 females; total, 206,153: and by a calculation made by order of government, which included persons in the army and navy, for which was added after the ratio of about one to thirty prior to the year 1811, and one to fifty for that year and the census of 1821, to the returns made from the several districts; the population of the county, in round numbers, in the year 1700, was 101,600 - in 1750, 130,300 - in 1801, 172,200 - in 1811, 200,800 - and in 1821, 210,300. The increased population in the fifty years, from the year 1700, was 28,700 - from 1750 to 1801, the increase was 41,900 - from 1801 to 1811, the increase was 28,600 - and from 1811 to 1821, the increased number of persons was 9,500: the grand total increase in the population of the county, from the year 1700 to the census of 1821, being about 108,700 persons.