Population

Matravers School, Westbury

Westbury Church of England Junior School

Year	Westbury	Wiltshire
1801	1,837	185,107
1811	1,799	193,828
1821	2,117	222,157
1831	2,495	240,156
1841	0	258,733
1851	0	258,733
1861	0	249,311
1871	0	257,177
1881	0	258,965
1891	0	264,997
1901	3,305	271,394
1911	3,433	286,822
1921	3,712	292,208
1931	4,044	303,373
1951	5,260	386,692
1961	5,417	422,950
1971	6,464	486,747
1981	7,280	518,545
1991	9,512	564,471
2001	11,135	613,024
2011	14,709	650,745
2017	15,553	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.