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Population

Year Alton Alton Barnes Alton Priors Wiltshire
1801 0 83 178 185,107
1811 0 106 161 193,828
1821 0 110 166 222,157
1831 0 138 205 240,156
1841 0 167 251 258,733
1851 0 167 251 258,733
1861 0 177 207 249,311
1871 0 169 221 257,177
1881 0 156 198 258,965
1891 0 143 178 264,997
1901 0 131 0 271,394
1911 0 151 217 286,822
1921 0 125 175 292,208
1931 0 122 182 303,373
1951 306 0 172 386,692
1961 245 0 0 422,950
1971 218 0 0 486,747
1981 188 0 0 518,545
1991 230 0 0 564,471
2001 229 0 0 613,024
2011 249 0 0 650,745
2017 231 0 0 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.