Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 6

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POPULATION.
shows, for each of the counties and for the whole kingdom, the returns of the whole series,
with the increase or decrease per cent, during each ten years, decrease being indicated by the
sign - :
Counties.
Aberdeen,
Argyll, . .
Ayr, . , .
Banff, . . .
Berwick, . .
Bute, . . .
Caithness,
Clackmannan,
Dumbarton, .
Dumfries,
Edinburgh, .
Elgin or Moray.
Fife, ...
Forfar, . .
Haddington,.
Inverness,
Kincardine, .
Kinross, . .
Kirkcudbright,
Lanark, . .
Linlithgow, .
Nairn, . .
Orkney and
Shetland, .
Peebles, . .
Perth, . . .
Renfrew, . .
Ross & Cromarty,
Roxburgh,
Selkirk, .
Stirling, .
Sutherland,
Wigtown, .
Totals
Persons.
121,065
81,277
84,207
37,2i6
30,206
11,791
22,609
10,858
20,710
54,597
122,597
27,760
93,743
99,°53
29,986
72,672
26,349
6,725
29,211
147,692
17,844
8,322
46,824
8,735
125,583
78,501
56,318
33.721
5,388
50,825
23,117
22,918
5,420
133,871
86,541
103,839
38,433
30,893
12,033
23>4i9
12,010
24,189
62,960
148,607
27,967
101,272
107,187
31,050
77,671
27,439
7,245
33,684
191,291
19,451
8,496
46,153
9,935
134,39°
93,172
60,853
37,230
5,889
58,174
23,629
26,891
r,So5,864
155,049
97,3i6
127,299
43,663
33,385
13,797
29,181
13,263
27,317
70,878
I9'.5i4
31,398
114,556
"3,355
35,127
89,961
29,11s
7,762
38,903
244,387
22,685
9,268
53,124
10,046
138,247
112,175
68,762
40,892
6,637
65,376
23,840
33,24o
1831
177,657
100,973
145,055
48,337
34,048
14,151
34,529
'4,7 Z 9
33,2ii
73,77°
219,345
34,498
128,839
139,606
36,145
94,797
3i,43i
9,072
40,590
316,819
23,291
9,354
58,239
10,578
142,166
133,443
74,820
43,663
6,833
72,621
25,518
36,258
2,364,386
192,387
97,371
164,356
49,670
34,438
15,740
36,343
19,155
44,296
72,830
2=5,454
35,012
140,140
170,453
35,886
97,799
33,075
8,763
41,119
426,972
26,872
9,217
61,065
10,499
137,457
155,072
78,685
46,025
7,99o
82,057
24,782
39,195
2,620,18
1851.
212,032
89,298
189,858
54.I7 1
36,297
16,608
38,709
22,951
45,io3
78,123
259,435
38,959
153,546
191,264
36,386
96, 500
34,598
8,924
43,121
530,169
3o,i35
9,956
62,533
10,738
138,660
161,091
82,707
51,642
9,809
86,237
25,793
43,389
221,569
79,724
198,971
59,215
36,613
16,331
41,111
21,450
52,034
75,878
273,997
43,322
154,770
204,425
37,634
88,261
34,466
7,977
42,495
631,566
38,645
10,065
64,065
11,408
133,500
177,561
81,406
54,H9
10,449
91,926
25,246
42,095
,742 3,062,294
1871.
244,603
75,679
200,809
62,023
36,486
i6,977
39,992
23,747
58,857
74,8o8
328,379
43,128
"60,735
237,567
37,771
88,015
34,630
7,198
41,859
765,339
40,965
10,225
62,882
12,330
127,768
216,947
80,955
47,407
18,572
98,218
24,317
38,830
3,360,018
267,990
76,468
217,519
62,736
35,392
17,657
38,865
25,680
75,333
76,140
389,164
43,788
I7 I ,93 I
266,360
38,502
9o,454
34,464
6,697
42,127
904,412
43,5io
10, 455
6l,749
13,822
129,007
263,374
78,547
53,442
25,564
112,443
2.3,370
38,611
Increase or Decrease per cent.
4-4
—12.0
4.8
9-3
0.8
—1.6
6.2
—7.0
15-3
— 2.g
5-6
9-5
0.7
6.8
3-4
-8.5
—0.3
-11.8
—1.4
19.1
28.2
1.0
2.4
6.4
-3.8
10.2
—1-5
4-7
6.5
6.5
— 2.1
—3.0
6.0
10.40
-5.07
0.92
4-74
—o.35
3.96
—2.72
10.71
13.11
-1.41
19.85
-0.45
3-85
l6.2I
O.36
-0.28
O.48
9-5'
1.0,
3.3
i -i,
-3.0
4.0.
-2.8:
8.1.
27.9,
1.7!
18.5
1-5;
6.91
12.11
i-9j
■0.4
—9.77 — 6.9!
— i.t;o 0.61
21.18 18.1;
6.00 6.2]
i-59
-1.S3
8.08
-4.29
22.18
-0-55
-8.71
77-74
6.84
-3.68
-7.76
12. n
0.9:
21.41
-'■9!
8.i-
37-6:
M-4 :
-3-E:
-0.51
9.72 1
.1;
While in 1871 a decrease of population was noted in fifteen of the counties, including both
Orkney and Shetland, this was the case in eight only in 1881. Orkney, Inverness, Elgin,
Perth, Argyll, Roxburgh, Dumfries, and Kirkcudbright, formerly decreasing, are now increasing.
According to the census returns, which allow the country 19,496,132 statute acres, the
average density of population has been raised from 110.30 persons per square mile in 1871 to
125 persons in 1881 ; or, in other words, while in 1871 each person on the average had 5.80
acres, this space was in 1881 reduced to 5.1 acres. As the area of the country is now ascer-
tained to be 19,777,490 acres, the density for 1871 should be 108.73, an d for 1881, 120.88, and
the person acreage 5.88 and 5.29. On the other hand, if, instead of the gross area, the land
area only were taken without water or foreshore, the densities would be 112-8 and 125.41.
Even then Scotland does not stand high in this respect, Scarcely a fourth of her area is
capable of cultivation, and owing to special social causes her population is less evenly distri-
buted than physical conditions permit. The following table shows the disparity of population
to area in the individual counties : —
1871.
Sutherland, ~|
Inverness,
Ross and Cromarty, !-
Argyll, I
Peebles, >
Kirkcudbright, ")
Nairn,
Perth,
Selkirk,
Caithness, J
Dumfries, \
Shetland and Orkney, |
Bute, }
Wigtown,
Berwick,
Counties with from 12 to 40 inhabitants per square mile,
Counties with from 40 to 60 inhabitants per square mile.
Counties with from 60 to So inhabitants per square mile.
1881.
( Sutherland.
Inverness.
-I Argyll.
I Ross and Cromarty.
I Peebles.
( Kirkcudbright.
I Perth,
-j Shetland.
I Caithness.
I Nairn.
Dumfries.
Berwick.
Wigtown .