Population


Year Broughton Gifford Wiltshire
1801 613 185,107
1811 656 193,828
1821 776 222,157
1831 735 240,156
1841 741 258,733
1851 741 258,733
1861 621 249,311
1871 588 257,177
1881 613 258,965
1891 667 264,997
1901 649 271,394
1911 741 286,822
1921 737 292,208
1931 721 303,373
1951 731 386,692
1961 656 422,950
1971 863 486,747
1981 852 518,545
1991 901 564,471
2001 822 613,024
2011 851 650,745
2017 821 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.