Population


Year Chute Wiltshire
1801 389 185,107
1811 472 193,828
1821 489 222,157
1831 501 240,156
1841 525 258,733
1851 525 258,733
1861 538 249,311
1871 519 257,177
1881 430 258,965
1891 388 264,997
1901 410 271,394
1911 390 286,822
1921 379 292,208
1931 301 303,373
1951 329 386,692
1961 275 422,950
1971 271 486,747
1981 287 518,545
1991 309 564,471
2001 331 613,024
2011 299 650,745
2017 426 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.