Population


Year Upton Scudamore Wiltshire
1801 409 185,107
1811 314 193,828
1821 343 222,157
1831 392 240,156
1841 383 258,733
1851 383 258,733
1861 381 249,311
1871 363 257,177
1881 312 258,965
1891 256 264,997
1901 236 271,394
1911 217 286,822
1921 218 292,208
1931 205 303,373
1951 213 386,692
1961 250 422,950
1971 223 486,747
1981 269 518,545
1991 250 564,471
2001 307 613,024
2011 295 650,745
2017 296 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.