Population


Year Fittleton Wiltshire
1801 251 185,107
1811 249 193,828
1821 298 222,157
1831 331 240,156
1841 336 258,733
1851 336 258,733
1861 393 249,311
1871 394 257,177
1881 347 258,965
1891 328 264,997
1901 273 271,394
1911 308 286,822
1921 480 292,208
1931 361 303,373
1951 274 386,692
1961 277 422,950
1971 382 486,747
1981 323 518,545
1991 370 564,471
2001 234 613,024
2011 261 650,745
2017 282 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.