Population


Year Shalbourne Wiltshire
1801 272 185,107
1811 0 193,828
1821 410 222,157
1831 410 240,156
1841 245 258,733
1851 245 258,733
1861 506 249,311
1871 311 257,177
1881 217 258,965
1891 201 264,997
1901 698 271,394
1911 716 286,822
1921 666 292,208
1931 654 303,373
1951 609 386,692
1961 547 422,950
1971 622 486,747
1981 560 518,545
1991 550 564,471
2001 560 613,024
2011 558 650,745
2017 595 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.