Population


Year Britford Wiltshire
1801 0 185,107
1811 0 193,828
1821 0 222,157
1831 0 240,156
1841 391 258,733
1851 391 258,733
1861 0 249,311
1871 0 257,177
1881 0 258,965
1891 0 264,997
1901 379 271,394
1911 389 286,822
1921 366 292,208
1931 336 303,373
1951 582 386,692
1961 705 422,950
1971 752 486,747
1981 825 518,545
1991 440 564,471
2001 509 613,024
2011 592 650,745
2017 587 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.