Population


Year Atworth Wiltshire
1801 0 185,107
1811 549 193,828
1821 642 222,157
1831 705 240,156
1841 824 258,733
1851 824 258,733
1861 0 249,311
1871 0 257,177
1881 0 258,965
1891 767 264,997
1901 768 271,394
1911 785 286,822
1921 798 292,208
1931 750 303,373
1951 719 386,692
1961 817 422,950
1971 1,101 486,747
1981 837 518,545
1991 943 564,471
2001 1,280 613,024
2011 1,321 650,745
2017 1,272 0

Note: There are some apparent anomalies in the census figures whereby there is a large increase or decrease in population over a ten year period. There are many reasons for these, including boundary changes, influx or removal of military personnel, expansion or closure of industries or, in the extreme case of Imber, the relocation of the entire population. We are unable to provide notes for all of these but they can be found in The Victoria History of Wiltshire, Vol.4 in the chapter on population. Where there is no population figure against a date in the table above, we have been unable to identify a separate total for that community as it may have been combined with another community, or did not exist in its present form, at that date.