Population


Year Collingbourne Kingston Wiltshire
1801 731 185,107
1811 746 193,828
1821 817 222,157
1831 913 240,156
1841 933 258,733
1851 933 258,733
1861 903 249,311
1871 841 257,177
1881 696 258,965
1891 739 264,997
1901 744 271,394
1911 748 286,822
1921 669 292,208
1931 585 303,373
1951 440 386,692
1961 397 422,950
1971 410 486,747
1981 441 518,545
1991 454 564,471
2001 456 613,024
2011 511 650,745
2017 511 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.