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

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Year	Population 30 years earlier	Population 20 years earlier	Population 10 years earlier	Current Total Population
1881				17,385
1891				19,303
1921			22,216	20,944
1931		22,216	20,944	22,583
1951	21,712	23,550		28,107
1961				29,774
1971				34,835

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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Age and sex structure data in the categories used in the 2021/22 Census. Wherever possible, we reorganise age structure data from other years to this same set of categories, including in our redistricted statistics for modern units.

Inverness Burgh (Burgh) : Total Population

Total Population