POPULATION. 
The islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alder- 
ney, and Sark, the Scilly Islands, and the 
Isle of Man, were not comprised in the enu- 
meration ; the total population of these 
islands has been usually estimated at about 
80,000. The number of houses in Ireland 
has been nearly ascertained by the collec- 
tion of a hearth-money tax, from whence it 
has been computed that the popidation of 
that jiart of the united kingdom somewhat 
exceeds four millions of persons. There- 
fore, with a very moderate allowance for 
those places from which no returns were 
received, and for omissionsin others, the to- 
tal population of the united kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ir, eland amounted to 
15,100,000 persons. 
At the beginning of the preceding cen- 
tury, Dr. Davenant published an account 
of the total number of houses in England 
and Wales, according;^ to the hearth books 
of Lady Day 1690 ; this account was pro- 
bably as correct as the above, and a com- 
parison of them shows an increase from 
1690 to 1801 of 261,708 bouses which at .5| 
persons to a house makes an increase of 
1,465,563 persons. This appears to be the 
least increase that can have taken place, 
but it has certainly been greater on account 
of the number pf soldiers and seamen far ex- 
ceeding those employed in 1690. 
A circumstance \vhich caused consi- 
derable dis-agreement in the estimates, 
which previously to the enumeration, had 
been formed on this subject, was the want 
of sutficient accounts to determine the pro- 
portion of persons to a house. Dr. Dave- 
nant and Dr. Brakenridge reckoned six 
persons to a house ; while Mr. G. King al- 
lowed rather more than 4i in London, 
in the cities and market towns, and four in 
the villages. Dr. Price asserted that six/ 
persons to a house for London, and five to 
a house for all England was too large an al- 
lowance; but the fact now appears to be, 
that in England and Wales the proportion is 
51 persons to a house, and in Scotland 5-t. 
The proportion of inhabitants to a house 
differs very considerably in some of the 
counties of England ; the chief cause of 
this difference is the large towns, and parti- 
cularly the sea-ports vvliich some of them 
contain, as in such places the inhabitants 
live more crowded together than in mo- 
derate sized inland towns. The difference 
in this respect between large towns and 
those of less extent will be sliowm with to- 
lerable accuracy by the following state- 
ments. 
Inhabitants. Towns. Persons to a House. 
864,845 ... London 7i 
84,020 ... Mancliester 
77,653 ... Liverpool 6| 
63,645 ... Bristol 6 
43,194 ... Plymouth ;.. 9| 
32,200 ... Bath 7| 
32,166 ... Portsmouth ,, 6 
29,516 ... Hnll 61 
28,366 ... Newcastle 9 
The oilier towns in England containing 
upwards of twenty thousand inhabitants. 
are the following : 
Inhabitants. Towns. Persons to a House. 
73)670 .. Birmingham 5 
53,162 ... Leeds 41 
36,832 ... Norwich 4i 
31,314 ... Sheffield 4| ' 
28,861 ... Nottingham 5| 
Tlie latter are all manufacturing towns, 
the trade of which had for several years pre- 
viously to the enumeration, been in a very 
distressed situation, and had reduced the 
population much below its usual standard ; 
a few years of peace will restore the inha- 
bitants which these towms had lost, and re- 
duce in some degree the population of the 
principal out-ports. 
Proportion of persons to a house in towns 
of a moderate size. 
Inhabitants. 
Towns. Persons to a Housc^ 
7,909 . 
.. Devizes 
.. 5 
7,668 . 
.. Salisbury 
• 
7,655 . 
...Bury...... 
■ Si 
7,579 . 
.. Gloucester 
■ Si 
7,531 . 
.. Wellington 
• Si 
7,398 . 
.. Lincoln 
. 5 
7,020 . 
.. Northampton.. 
5-1 
• ^4. 
6,828 . 
.. Hereford 
. 5 
6,730 . 
.. Newark 
.. 5 
6, .505 . 
.. Tiverton 
■ Si ' 
5,794 . 
..' Taunton 
. 5 
The enumeration has not only ascertained 
with precision the proportion of inhabitants 
to the houses, but likewise the proportion 
of males and females. It has been long 
known that more niale children come into 
the world ttian females, of which additional 
evidence is furnished by the registers of 
baptisms collected on this occasion, the to- 
tal of the twenty-nine years for wlsich re- 
turns were required, being 3,285,188 males, 
and 3,150,922 females, or 104 males born 
to 100 females. This approaches much 
nearer to equality, than the proportion 
which previous accounts had appeared to 
estvlbJish, and will probably be found nearer 
