Population


Year Idmiston Wiltshire
1801 422 185,107
1811 432 193,828
1821 438 222,157
1831 520 240,156
1841 497 258,733
1851 497 258,733
1861 542 249,311
1871 535 257,177
1881 583 258,965
1891 457 264,997
1901 544 271,394
1911 809 286,822
1921 961 292,208
1931 1,140 303,373
1951 1,328 386,692
1961 1,394 422,950
1971 2,314 486,747
1981 2,181 518,545
1991 2,177 564,471
2001 2,025 613,024
2011 2,130 650,745
2017 2,117 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.