Population


Year Woodborough Wiltshire
1801 326 185,107
1811 325 193,828
1821 335 222,157
1831 372 240,156
1841 426 258,733
1851 426 258,733
1861 406 249,311
1871 363 257,177
1881 397 258,965
1891 424 264,997
1901 360 271,394
1911 367 286,822
1921 331 292,208
1931 314 303,373
1951 310 386,692
1961 286 422,950
1971 268 486,747
1981 271 518,545
1991 264 564,471
2001 267 613,024
2011 292 650,745
2017 293 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.