Society

Population

"Area and Population 1896

• "London, within the Registrar-General's Tables of Mortality - 116Ÿ sq. Miles - 4,411,710 population
• "Administrative County of London - 117Œ sq. Miles - 4,433,018 population
• "London School Board District - 117Œ sq. Miles - 4,433,018 population
• "Metropolitan Parliamentary Boroughs - 117Œ sq. Miles - 4,433,018 population

"The "Greater London" of the Registrar General's Weekly Return - 693 sq. miles - 5,633,806 population

Consisting of-

(a) Metropolitan Police District - 692 sq. miles - 5,596,101 population *(These figures are for 1891, the latest that are available) (b) City of London, within the Municipal and Parliamentary limits - 1 sq. miles - 31,148 *(These figures are for 1891, the latest that are available)

The figures for the City represent the night population; during the business hours of the day it rises to over 1,000,000. "Greater London" estimated (1897), 6,291,677.

"The population of London in 1801 was 958,863; in 1811, 1,138,815; in 1821, 1,378,947; in 1831, 1,164,994; in 1841, 1,948,369; in 1851, 2,362,236; in 1861, 2,803,989; in 1871, 3,254,260; in 1881, 3,816,483; in 1891, 4,231,431. The annual rate of increase of population since 1801 has thus been about 36,000, and during the last decennial period about 40,000 persons against 56,000 in the previous period, 1871-81."

• J.G. Bartholomew, The Pocket Atlas and Guide to London, 1899; from The Victorian Dictionary

See also the 1901 census, fully searchable online.

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-- ChrisLehrich^? - 29 Dec 2004