Population


Year Malmesbury Wiltshire
1801 1,571 185,107
1811 1,746 193,828
1821 2,145 222,157
1831 2,293 240,156
1841 2,498 258,733
1851 2,498 258,733
1861 2,543 249,311
1871 2,406 257,177
1881 3,133 258,965
1891 2,964 264,997
1901 2,854 271,394
1911 2,656 286,822
1921 2,407 292,208
1931 2,334 303,373
1951 2,510 386,692
1961 2,610 422,950
1971 2,527 486,747
1981 2,581 518,545
1991 4,041 564,471
2001 4,631 613,024
2011 5,380 650,745
2017 5,729 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.