Population


Year Savernake Wiltshire
1801 200 185,107
1811 182 193,828
1821 237 222,157
1831 296 240,156
1841 299 258,733
1851 299 258,733
1861 338 249,311
1871 245 257,177
1881 326 258,965
1891 305 264,997
1901 287 271,394
1911 340 286,822
1921 292 292,208
1931 387 303,373
1951 0 386,692
1961 292 422,950
1971 211 486,747
1981 235 518,545
1991 194 564,471
2001 194 613,024
2011 286 650,745
2017 312 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.