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 AREA AND POPULATION

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their percentage of increase during the decennium, and percentage of popu- lation living in the different classes of towns : —

No. of Districts

Aggregate population

Percentage

of

increase

Percentage of Popula- tion in 1911

1901

1911

250,000 and upwards 100,000—250,000.

50,000—100,000.

20,000— 5<t,000.

10,000— 20,000 . 3,000— 10,000 . Under 3,000.

12 32 53 148 231 453 208

8,859,683 3,981,499 3,(45,692 3,932,829 2,767,843 2,373,186 370,386

9,147,488 4,546,594 3,556,927 4,622,484 3.256,011 2,643,738 389,694

3-3 25 14-2 13 16-8 \ 10 17-6 i 13 16-8 I 9 11-4 \ \ 8

5-2 ) ^

Total Urban Rural

1.137 657

25,351,118 7,176,725

28,162.936 7,907,556

11-1 10-2

78 22

Total Population

— ' 32,527,843

36,070,492

10-9

100

The municipal and parliamentary City of London, coinciding with the registration City oF London, has an area of 675 acres, and in 1901 had a night population of 26,923, and in 1911, 19,657. A day census of the City of London, taken on April 25, 1911, gave a population of 364,061. The previous day census, taken in 1891, gave a total of 301,384. The registration County of London (the London for purposes of the Census, the registration of^ births, deaths, and marriages, and for poor law puiposes), coinciding with the administrative county, has an area of 74,816 acres, and nearly coincides with the collective area of the London parliamentary boroughs. The population of registration London, of the 'Outer Ring,' and of ' Greater London,' (the area covered by the City and Metropolitan police), according to the census returns of 1891, 1901 and 1911, was :—

—

1891

1901

4.536,267 2,045,135

1911

Registration London ' Outer Ring '.

4,227,954 1,405,852

5,633,806

4,521,685 2,729,673

' Greater London '1.

6,581,402

7,251,358

1 Area about 693 square miles. Occupation statistics of the population aged 10 years and upwards in

-

Males

Females Total

1

Professional class

Domestic ,,

Commercial ,,

Agricultural and fishing class.

Industrial class

Unoccupied class

651,543 304,195 1,779,685 1,094,765 6,326,788 1,977,283

321,142

1,690,722

78,769

57,730

2,023,388

9,017,834

13,189,585

972,685 1,994,917 1,858,454 1,152,495 8,350,176 10,995,117

Total.

12,134,259

25,323,844