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Population

Year Purton Wiltshire
1801 0 185,107
1811 0 193,828
1821 1,696 222,157
1831 1,714 240,156
1841 2,081 258,733
1851 2,081 258,733
1861 2,038 249,311
1871 2,294 257,177
1881 2,240 258,965
1891 2,432 264,997
1901 2,525 271,394
1911 2,578 286,822
1921 2,455 292,208
1931 2,547 303,373
1951 2,678 386,692
1961 3,295 422,950
1971 3,744 486,747
1981 3,886 518,545
1991 3,879 564,471
2001 3,934 613,024
2011 4,228 650,745
2017 5,420 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.