Population


Year Lydiard Millicent Wiltshire
1801 300 185,107
1811 337 193,828
1821 391 222,157
1831 406 240,156
1841 564 258,733
1851 564 258,733
1861 588 249,311
1871 772 257,177
1881 886 258,965
1891 912 264,997
1901 825 271,394
1911 807 286,822
1921 752 292,208
1931 809 303,373
1951 821 386,692
1961 958 422,950
1971 1,049 486,747
1981 1,085 518,545
1991 1,203 564,471
2001 1,598 613,024
2011 1,570 650,745
2017 1,482 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.