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 AREA AND POPULATION

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VI 1 1. Soutliern.

30. Roxburgh

31. Dumfries

32. Kirkcudbright

33. Wigtown

Total Scotland

Area in Statute Acres

426,028 686,302 575,832 311,984

17,069,966

Population

1901

48,801 72,571 39,383 32,685

4,472,103

1911

47,192 72,825 38,367 31,998

4,760,004

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Inhabited houses 1901, 926,914 ; uninhabited, 59,420 ; building, 9,062.

.nn^^o'^n.^i"^ /'' *'"'" ^^ ^"^'^ ^'^^^ inhabitants, in villages Avith from 300 to 2,000 inhabitants, and in rural disticts :—

Groups of Districts

Towns Villages Rural districts

Total.

1891

1901

Population

Per cent.

65-37 11-57 23-06

Population

Per cent.

2,631,298 465,836 928,517

3,120,241 466,053 885,009

69-77 10-42 19-81

4,025,647

100-00

4,472,103

100-00

In the towns the population increased in the ten years, 1891-1901 18-58 percent. ; in the villages, O'OS per cent. ; in the rural districts it decreased
 * 4 bO per cent., the increase in the whole country being 11-09 per cent.

Population of the principal burghs :-—

Burghs

Glasgow 1. Edinburgh i Dundee i Aberdeen Go van i Paisley Leith Greenock ^ Partick.

Pop. in 1901.

775,. 594

317,459

162,982

153,503

82,174

79,363

77,439

68,911

54,298

Pop. in 1911

784,496 320,318 165,004 163,891 89,725 84,477 80.489 75,140 66,848

Burghs

Pop. in

Pop. in

1901

1911

Coatbridge

! .86,991

43,287

1 Afotlierwell i.

31,144

40,378

1 Kirkcaldy

34,079

.-^9.600

Hamiltfin

.82,775

38,644

Clydebanki.

20,^98

37,547

Perth 1.

33,995

.35,>-51

j Kilmarnock.

34,165

34,729

' Falkirk.

29,280

33.509

Ayr.

28,697 :

32,9t-5

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