Greenock Burgh (Burgh) through time | Historical Statistics on Population

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Year	Male	Female
1881	34,249	32,455
1891	31,761	31,662
1921	41,732	39,391
1931	39,191	39,758
1951	36,928	39,364
1961	36,118	38,442
1971	33,750	35,755

Date	Source
1881	1891 Census of Scotland, Ages, Table [1] , 'Ages of the Males and Females for every Quinquennial Period of Life, for the Divisions, Counties, and Civil Parishes of Scotland'
1891	[ERROR: authority is ''SRC'' but auth_note value of does not appear in SRC_TAB]
1921	1921 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Population of Burghs, County Public Health Districts, and Civil Parishes of XXXXX in 1921 and in 1911'
1931	1931 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Population of Burghs, Districts of Counties, and Civil Parishes'
1951	1951 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 1 , 'Comparison of population, density per 100 acres, and houses with 1931', for 'Burghs, Districts of Counties and CPs'
1961	1961 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 6 , 'Age and Martial Condition', for 'County, LB, SB, Districts of County, NT'
1971	1971 Census of Scotland, County Report, Table 8 , 'Population by sex, age and marital condition', for 'County, local authority areas'

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Date	Acknowledgments
1971	National Records of Scotland. Role: owner. Restrictions on use: all census data 1966-2011 is Crown copyright but is now available free of charge under the Open Government Licence. You are free to copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; adapt the Information; exploit the Information commercially and non-commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application; but you must acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to the Open Government Licence.

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1971

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Greenock Burgh (Burgh) : Males & Females

Males & Females