Population

Church of St. Michael, Mere

Year	Mere	Wiltshire
1801	2,091	185,107
1811	2,211	193,828
1821	2,422	222,157
1831	2,708	240,156
1841	3,139	258,733
1851	3,139	258,733
1861	2,929	249,311
1871	3,161	257,177
1881	2,931	258,965
1891	2,749	264,997
1901	1,977	271,394
1911	1,919	286,822
1921	1,847	292,208
1931	1,764	303,373
1951	2,167	386,692
1961	1,920	422,950
1971	2,085	486,747
1981	2,219	518,545
1991	2,257	564,471
2001	2,633	613,024
2011	2,961	650,745
2017	3,123	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.