Population


Year Burbage Wiltshire
1801 1,008 185,107
1811 1,024 193,828
1821 1,195 222,157
1831 1,448 240,156
1841 1,445 258,733
1851 1,445 258,733
1861 1,603 249,311
1871 1,544 257,177
1881 1,317 258,965
1891 1,213 264,997
1901 1,136 271,394
1911 1,117 286,822
1921 1,073 292,208
1931 1,057 303,373
1951 989 386,692
1961 999 422,950
1971 1,042 486,747
1981 1,319 518,545
1991 1,434 564,471
2001 1,660 613,024
2011 1,772 650,745
2017 1,842 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.