Population


Year Grittleton Wiltshire
1801 340 185,107
1811 332 193,828
1821 354 222,157
1831 438 240,156
1841 351 258,733
1851 351 258,733
1861 349 249,311
1871 357 257,177
1881 310 258,965
1891 360 264,997
1901 285 271,394
1911 344 286,822
1921 296 292,208
1931 299 303,373
1951 489 386,692
1961 432 422,950
1971 417 486,747
1981 409 518,545
1991 373 564,471
2001 459 613,024
2011 539 650,745
2017 562 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.