Lanarkshire population growth in the 19th Century

Date

Population of Lanarkshire

% change

% of total

Population of Scotland

% change

1801

147,692

  

9%

1,608,420

  

1811

191,291

+29%

10.6%

1,805,864

+12%

1821

244,387

+28%

11.7%

2,091,521

+16%

1831

316,819

+30%

13.4%

2,364,386

+13%

1841

426,972

+34%

16.3%

2,620,184

+11%

1851

530,169

+24%

18.4%

2,888,742

+10%

1861

631,566

+19%

20.6%

3,062,294

+6%

1871

765,339

+21%

22.8%

3,360,018

+10%

1881

904,412

+18%

24.2%

3,735,573

+11%

1891

1,046,040

+16%

26%

4,025,647

+8%

Total % increase

+608%

    

+150%

Lanarkshire population changes in the second half of the 19th Century by civil divisions.

(Figures taken from the censuses)

 

1851

1861

1871

1881

1891

+/- %

Avondale

6,451

6,125

5,460

5,466

5,069

-21

Blantyre

-

-

3,472

9,760

11,352

+227

Bothwell

15,283

17,903

19,292

25,466

31,484

+106

Cadder

5,014

5,948

6,464

6,965

8,232

+64

Cambuslang

-

-

3,740

9,447

15,364

+311

Cambusnethan

8,621

14,601

20,326

20,823

22,709

+163

Carluke

6,283

6,176

7,066

8,552

8,058

+28

Cathcart

2,916

3,782

7,231

12,211

16,589

+469

Culter

472

665

593

574

559

+18

Dalserf

3,583

4,876

7,341

9,378

11,325

+216

Dalziel

2,262

5,438

9,175

13,853

19,204

+749

East Kilbride

-

-

3,861

3,975

3,781

-2

Glasgow Barony

77,499

101,632

130,892

264,509

309,812

+301

Glasgow City

58,406*

-

-

166,128

176,824

+203

Glasgow Govan

14,996

100,716

151,402

232,896

280,275

+1769

Glasgow Maryhill

6,770

11,260

17,107

-

-

n/a

Glasgow St. Enoch’s

-

-

4,286

-

-

n/a

Glasgow St. George’s

29,972

29,640

37,231

-

-

n/a

Glasgow St. John’s

21,664

27,743

35,894

-

-

n/a

Glasgow Shettleston

-

-

7,517

-

-

n/a

Glasgow Springburn

-

14,962

21,682

-

-

n/a

Hamilton

11,740

14,047

16,803

26,231

35,156

+199

Kirkpatrick-Juxta

-

-

1,091

1,064

976

-11

Lanark

8,243

7,891

7,841

7,580

7,110

-14

Moffat

2,304

2,232

2,543

2,930

2,977

+29

New Monkland

23,201

20,554

22,752

27,816

33,860

+46

Old Monkland

27,333

29,543

34,073

37,323

44,616

+63

Rutherglen

7,954

9,335

10,766

13,801

16,178

+103

Stonehouse

2,781

3,267

3,177

3,173

3,400

+22

* Glasgow City did not exist as a civil division in 1851. This figure is calculated by adding together Maryhill, St. George’s & St. John’s which were later subsumed into Glasgow City.

Where there is a dash instead of a figure that is because that particular division did not exist at that particular time.

 

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