Population

The John of Gaunt School, Trowbridge

Year	Trowbridge	Wiltshire
1801	5,799	185,107
1811	6,075	193,828
1821	9,545	222,157
1831	10,863	240,156
1841	11,050	258,733
1851	11,050	258,733
1861	10,487	249,311
1871	11,672	257,177
1881	11,040	258,965
1891	11,717	264,997
1901	11,526	271,394
1911	11,815	286,822
1921	12,130	292,208
1931	12,011	303,373
1951	13,859	386,692
1961	15,844	422,950
1971	19,341	486,747
1981	23,123	518,545
1991	25,279	564,471
2001	28,163	613,024
2011	32,238	650,745
2017	35,554	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.