Want to find out what the statisticians of the time gleaned from the 1911 census data?

Take a look at the reports on the excellent Vision of Britain website from the University of Portsmouth

Now all the English counties are complete, we thought it would be useful to let you know the number of people found in each county: in decreasing size order. Note the huge comparative size of Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding).

1. Lancashire   4,767,832
2. London   4,521,685
3. Yorkshire, West Riding   3,045,377
4. Durham   1,369,860
5. Essex   1,350,881
6. Staffordshire   1,348,259
7. Middlesex   1,126,465
8. Kent   1,045,591
9. Warwickshire   1,040,409
10. Cheshire   954,779
11. Hampshire   950,579
12. Surrey   845,578
13. Gloucestershire   736,097
14. Devonshire   699,703
15. Northumberland   696,893
16. Derbyshire   688,423
17. Sussex   663,378
18. Nottinghamshire   604,098
19. Lincolnshire   563,960
20. Worcestershire   526,087
21. Yorkshire, East Riding (with York)   515,041
22. Norfolk   499,116
23. Leicestershire   476,553
24. Somersetshire   458,025
25. Yorkshire, North Riding   419,546
26. Suffolk   394,060
27. Northamptonshire   348,515
28. Cornwall   328,098
29. Hertfordshire   311,284
30. Wiltshire   286,822
31. Berkshire   271,009
32. Cumberland   265,746
33. Shropshire   246,307
34. Dorsetshire   223,266
35. Buckinghamshire   219,551
36. Oxfordshire   199,269
37. Cambridgeshire   198,074
38. Bedfordshire   194,588
39. Herefordshire   114,269
40. Westmorland   63,575
41. Huntingdonshire 55,577
42. Rutlandshire   20,346

The UK Data Archive at the University of Essex publishes an extraordinarily useful resource on censuses, online, on its excellent histpop.org website.

Histpop is: “an online resource of almost 200,000 pages of all the published population reports created by the Registrars-General of and its predecessors for England and Wales and for Scotland for the period 1801–1920, including all Census Reports for the period 1801–1937, along with ancillary archival material from The National Archives, and critical essays contextualising much of the material.”

The section relating to the 1911 Census is crammed full of useful background documents relating to the census, including:

• Examples of the different types of schedules used
• Instructions for those involved at all points of the project
• Notes on the teaching of the Census in schools
• Many other fascinating background documents

Below is the latest version of the counties completed to date.

ERRATUM: a small piece of Flintshire (nestling between Cheshire and Shropshire) is erroneously coloured in. Many thanks to our friends at the Association of British Counties for permission to modify their map.

We’re happy to tell you that, should you need them, the 1911census.co.uk Customer Support team will be available over the Easter holiday period.

Happy Easter, enjoy the new records!

Overnight, we have uploaded records for the remaining English Counties (Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland) and added the missing Gateshead district records into the county of Durham (they were incorrectly listed as part of Northumberland - this is now fixed and they are searchable under Durham, as they should be).

Therefore all English counties are now complete.

Scanning of Welsh records is well underway and we are working on the transcriptions of the first batch of Welsh counties, which will be the next data release. Although we do not have a precise release date for them yet, we anticipate that we will have some data from Wales available in the next 4 to 6 weeks.

We are quality checking the final three English counties at the moment (Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland), as well as the missing Gateshead data from Durham (which was not uploaded with the rest of the county owing to an error in the master data catalogue, which has now been rectified).

If no problems are found, this data should be available on the live site either tomorrow or Wednesday. Gateshead data will be searchable under the county of Durham, as it should be.

UPDATE Tuesday 16:50: we’re redeploying the data now, it should start appearing late this evening / early tomorrow morning if all goes smoothly.