Population


Year Durrington Wiltshire
1801 339 185,107
1811 318 193,828
1821 370 222,157
1831 467 240,156
1841 465 258,733
1851 465 258,733
1861 440 249,311
1871 420 257,177
1881 392 258,965
1891 393 264,997
1901 427 271,394
1911 897 286,822
1921 3,005 292,208
1931 3,846 303,373
1951 5,784 386,692
1961 4,737 422,950
1971 6,734 486,747
1981 6,729 518,545
1991 6,926 564,471
2001 7,182 613,024
2011 7,379 650,745
2017 7,729 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.