Population


Year Barford St. Martin Wiltshire
1801 450 185,107
1811 448 193,828
1821 560 222,157
1831 570 240,156
1841 569 258,733
1851 569 258,733
1861 519 249,311
1871 532 257,177
1881 468 258,965
1891 514 264,997
1901 471 271,394
1911 468 286,822
1921 446 292,208
1931 493 303,373
1951 487 386,692
1961 545 422,950
1971 635 486,747
1981 609 518,545
1991 568 564,471
2001 586 613,024
2011 0 650,745
2017 537 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.