TABLE II.—The Proportion of Males to Females; the Number of Inhabited Dwellings; and the Number of Persons per square mile, Inhabited Dwellings per square mile, and Persons per Inhabited Dwelling at each Census, 1821 to 1901.
DATE OF CENSUS. POPULATION. Number of Inhabited Dwellings. Number of Persons per square mile. Number of Inhabited Dwellings per square mile. Number of Persons per Inhabited Dwelling.
Males. Females.
per cent. per cent.
1821—26th October 72.62 27.38 0.10
1828— November 75.44 24.56 0.12
1833—2nd September 73.43 26.57 0.20
1836—2nd September 72.04 27.96 0.25
1841—2nd March 65.76 34.24 14,951 0.37 0.05 7.67
1846—2nd March 60.11 39.89 24,539 0.49 0.08 6.19
1851—1st March 56.81 43.19 28,711 0.58 0.09 6.32
1856—1st March 55.41 44.59 39,807 0.80 0.13 6.26
1861—7th April 56.57 43.43 64,571 1.12 0.21 5.40
1871—2nd April 54.67 45.33 93,690 1.61 0.30 5.35
1881—3rd April 54.71 45.29 135,326 2.41 0.44 5.53
1891—5th April 54.10 45.90 216,202 3.64 0.70 5.21
1901—31st March 52.42 47.58 252,502 4.38 0.81 5.35