Population

Church of St. Paul, Allington

Year	Chippenham Without	Wiltshire
1801	0	185,107
1811	0	193,828
1821	0	222,157
1831	0	240,156
1841	0	258,733
1851	0	258,733
1861	0	249,311
1871	0	257,177
1881	0	258,965
1891	0	264,997
1901	1,948	271,394
1911	2,465	286,822
1921	594	292,208
1931	668	303,373
1951	2,606	386,692
1961	296	422,950
1971	274	486,747
1981	490	518,545
1991	418	564,471
2001	3,687	613,024
2011	208	650,745
2017	200	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.