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Population

Year Wootton Bassett Wiltshire
1801 1,244 185,107
1811 1,390 193,828
1821 1,701 222,157
1831 1,896 240,156
1841 2,990 258,733
1851 2,990 258,733
1861 2,191 249,311
1871 2,392 257,177
1881 2,237 258,965
1891 2,200 264,997
1901 2,258 271,394
1911 1,991 286,822
1921 2,112 292,208
1931 2,419 303,373
1951 3,419 386,692
1961 4,390 422,950
1971 6,656 486,747
1981 9,134 518,545
1991 10,524 564,471
2001 11,043 613,024
2011 11,385 650,745
2017 12,978 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.