Population

Church of St. John the Baptist, Little Somerford

Year	Little Somerford	Wiltshire
1801	255	185,107
1811	251	193,828
1821	330	222,157
1831	376	240,156
1841	357	258,733
1851	357	258,733
1861	335	249,311
1871	366	257,177
1881	379	258,965
1891	339	264,997
1901	323	271,394
1911	308	286,822
1921	302	292,208
1931	259	303,373
1951	271	386,692
1961	232	422,950
1971	351	486,747
1981	337	518,545
1991	416	564,471
2001	356	613,024
2011	357	650,745
2017	377	0

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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.