Population


Year Milton Lilbourne Wiltshire
1801 573 185,107
1811 542 193,828
1821 632 222,157
1831 660 240,156
1841 709 258,733
1851 709 258,733
1861 697 249,311
1871 659 257,177
1881 599 258,965
1891 590 264,997
1901 532 271,394
1911 538 286,822
1921 507 292,208
1931 530 303,373
1951 551 386,692
1961 513 422,950
1971 469 486,747
1981 482 518,545
1991 484 564,471
2001 512 613,024
2011 534 650,745
2017 516 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.