Population


Year Kington Langley Wiltshire
1801 376 185,107
1811 429 193,828
1821 504 222,157
1831 560 240,156
1841 601 258,733
1851 601 258,733
1861 0 249,311
1871 550 257,177
1881 553 258,965
1891 529 264,997
1901 510 271,394
1911 519 286,822
1921 501 292,208
1931 483 303,373
1951 565 386,692
1961 747 422,950
1971 788 486,747
1981 799 518,545
1991 718 564,471
2001 780 613,024
2011 841 650,745
2017 822 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.