Population


Year Broad Chalke Wiltshire
1801 625 185,107
1811 616 193,828
1821 706 222,157
1831 796 240,156
1841 775 258,733
1851 775 258,733
1861 796 249,311
1871 811 257,177
1881 734 258,965
1891 661 264,997
1901 629 271,394
1911 623 286,822
1921 661 292,208
1931 595 303,373
1951 597 386,692
1961 556 422,950
1971 585 486,747
1981 581 518,545
1991 584 564,471
2001 652 613,024
2011 680 650,745
2017 648 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.