Population


Year Durnford Wiltshire
1801 399 185,107
1811 421 193,828
1821 472 222,157
1831 481 240,156
1841 533 258,733
1851 533 258,733
1861 553 249,311
1871 515 257,177
1881 449 258,965
1891 380 264,997
1901 388 271,394
1911 420 286,822
1921 394 292,208
1931 376 303,373
1951 427 386,692
1961 411 422,950
1971 409 486,747
1981 372 518,545
1991 405 564,471
2001 348 613,024
2011 368 650,745
2017 358 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.