Population


Year Ashton Keynes Wiltshire
1801 764 185,107
1811 818 193,828
1821 888 222,157
1831 915 240,156
1841 1,033 258,733
1851 1,033 258,733
1861 1,070 249,311
1871 1,004 257,177
1881 959 258,965
1891 925 264,997
1901 867 271,394
1911 836 286,822
1921 744 292,208
1931 774 303,373
1951 959 386,692
1961 944 422,950
1971 987 486,747
1981 1,275 518,545
1991 1,399 564,471
2001 1,420 613,024
2011 1,400 650,745
2017 1,337 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.