Population


Year Chicklade Wiltshire
1801 150 185,107
1811 130 193,828
1821 139 222,157
1831 127 240,156
1841 109 258,733
1851 109 258,733
1861 143 249,311
1871 122 257,177
1881 97 258,965
1891 59 264,997
1901 50 271,394
1911 42 286,822
1921 56 292,208
1931 76 303,373
1951 67 386,692
1961 50 422,950
1971 34 486,747
1981 49 518,545
1991 71 564,471
2001 71 613,024
2011 75 650,745
2017 286 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.