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Population

Year Melksham Wiltshire
1801 4,030 185,107
1811 4,110 193,828
1821 4,765 222,157
1831 4,722 240,156
1841 5,807 258,733
1851 5,807 258,733
1861 4,251 249,311
1871 4,301 257,177
1881 2,178 258,965
1891 2,073 264,997
1901 2,450 271,394
1911 3,101 286,822
1921 3,569 292,208
1931 3,881 303,373
1951 6,739 386,692
1961 8,351 422,950
1971 9,817 486,747
1981 9,622 518,545
1991 12,788 564,471
2001 14,204 613,024
2011 14,677 650,745
2017 14,986 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.