POPULATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM According to the Census of 1861.
Reading edition
Population enumerated. Increase in 1861. Decease in 1861
1861 1851 Persons. Rate per cent. Persons. Rate per cent.
England and Wales 20,061,725 17,927,609 2,134,116 12 ... ...
Scotland 3,061,117 2,888,742 172,375 6 ... ...
Ireland 5,764,543 6,552,386 ... ... 787,842 12
Islands in the British Seas 143,779 143,126 653 ... ... ...
Total of the United Kingdom 29,031,164 27,511,862 2,307,144 787,842
Net Increase 1,519,302, or 6 per cent.
Population of Principal Cities and Towns of the United Kingdom.
ENGLAND AND WALES.
Ashton-under-Lyne 34,894
Banbury 10,194
Barnstaple 10,738
Bath 52,528
Bedford 13,412
Berwick-on-Tweed 13,254
Birmingham 295,955
Blackburn 63,125
Bolton 70,396
Boston 17,885
Bradford 106,218
Bridgewater 11,361
Brighton 87,311
Bristol 154,093
Bury 37,564
Bury St. Edmonds 13,316
Cambridge 26,351
Canterbury 21,323
Cardiff 32,421
Carlisle 29,436
Chatham 36,177
Cheltenham 39,590
Chester 31,101
Colchester 28,815
Coventry 41,647
Derby 43,091
Devonport 64,798
Doncaster 16,430
Dover 24,970
Durham 13,743
Exeter 41,791
Gateshead 33,589
Gloucester 16.320
Gravesend 18,776
Great Grimsby 15,013
Great Yarmouth 34,803
Greenwich 139,286
Halifax 37,015
Hastings 23,103
Huddersfield 34,874
Hull 98,994
Ipswich 37,949
Lancaster 15,996
Leeds 207,153
Leicester 68,052
Lincoln 20,995
Liverpool 443,874
London 2,803,034
Macclesfield 36,095
Maidstone 23,026
Manchester 357,604
Newcastle on Lyme 12,938
Newcastle on Tyne 109,291
Newport (Monmouth) 23,248
Northampton 32,813
Norwich 74,414
Nottingham 74,531
Oldham 94,337
Oxford 27,561
Peterborough 11,732
Plymouth 62,823
Portsmouth 94,546
Preston 82,961
Reading 24,965
Rochdale 38,164
Rochester 16,672
Salford 102,414
Sandwich and Deal 13,701
Scarborough 18,380
Sheffield 185,157
Shrewsbury 22,055
Southampton 46,970
South Shields 35,223
Stafford 12,487
Stoke-upon-Trent 101,302
Stroud 35,513
Sunderland 85,748
Swansea 42,581
Tynemouth 33,991
Wakefield 23,199
Walsall 37,762
Warrington 26,852
Warwick 10,589
Wigan 37,657
Winchester 14,784
Wolverhampton 147,646
Worcester 31,123
York 45,526
SCOTLAND.
Aberdeen 73,805
Arbroath 17,593
Ayr 18,573
Dumfries 14,023
Dundee 90,417
Dunfermline 13,506
Edinburgh 168,121
Glasgow 394,864
Greenock 42,093
Kilmarnock 22,619
Leith 33,628
Montrose 40,563
Paisley 14,409
Perth 25,250
Stirling 13,707
IRELAND.
Belfast 119,718
Cork 78,892
Dublin 249,733
Galway 16,786
Kilkenny 13,019
Limerick 44,626
Londonderry 20,153
Waterford 23,220