Population

Church of St. Thomas à Beckett, Tilshead

Baptist Chapel, Tilshead

Year	Tilshead	Wiltshire
1801	327	185,107
1811	397	193,828
1821	425	222,157
1831	465	240,156
1841	426	258,733
1851	426	258,733
1861	500	249,311
1871	467	257,177
1881	473	258,965
1891	393	264,997
1901	376	271,394
1911	394	286,822
1921	395	292,208
1931	610	303,373
1951	989	386,692
1961	314	422,950
1971	335	486,747
1981	287	518,545
1991	343	564,471
2001	359	613,024
2011	358	650,745
2017	391	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.