Population

Bemerton St. John's C.E. Aided First School, Salisbury

Bishop Wordsworth's CE Grammar School for Boys, Salisbury

Year	Salisbury	Wiltshire
1801	7,668	185,107
1811	8,243	193,828
1821	8,763	222,157
1831	9,876	240,156
1841	10,086	258,733
1851	10,086	258,733
1861	12,278	249,311
1871	12,903	257,177
1881	14,792	258,965
1891	15,333	264,997
1901	17,117	271,394
1911	21,217	286,822
1921	22,861	292,208
1931	26,460	303,373
1951	32,911	386,692
1961	35,492	422,950
1971	35,302	486,747
1981	34,431	518,545
1991	36,840	564,471
2001	39,726	613,024
2011	40,302	650,745
2017	40,786	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.