Population


Year Tollard Royal Wiltshire
1801 238 185,107
1811 267 193,828
1821 288 222,157
1831 286 240,156
1841 324 258,733
1851 324 258,733
1861 377 249,311
1871 384 257,177
1881 280 258,965
1891 247 264,997
1901 196 271,394
1911 185 286,822
1921 128 292,208
1931 148 303,373
1951 140 386,692
1961 104 422,950
1971 102 486,747
1981 92 518,545
1991 106 564,471
2001 107 613,024
2011 115 650,745
2017 127 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.