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The parish of Chelsea: Population

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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12, Chelsea. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2004.

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Population

In 1548 75 communicants (16 years and over) were certfied in the parish. (fn. 1) By the 1720s there were said to be 461 families in the parish and about 20 in the Royal Hospital. (fn. 2) In 1801 there were 2,746 families and a total population of 11,604. (fn. 3) The Table below gives decennial population totals, taken from the censuses, for the area equivalent to the main parish of Chelsea, and excludes the figures for Kensal New Town, transferred to Paddington and Kensington MBs in 1900. (fn. 4)

Table of Population 1801-1991
Year Total Population
1801 11,604
1811 18,262
1821 26,860
1831 32,371
1841 39,796
1851 53,725
1861 59,881
1871 67,717
1881 73,079
1891 74,466
1901 73,842
1911 66,385
1921 63,697
1931 59,031
1951 50,957
1961 47,256
1971 n/a
1981 29,215
1991 32,850

Footnotes

  • 1. Chantry Cert. p. 73.
  • 2. Guildhall MS 9550, s.v. Chelsea.
  • 3. CL, SR 61, 'Population Bk of St Luke's Par., Chelsea, 1801'.
  • 4. Census, 1801-1841; LCC, Statistical Abstract for London, IV (1901); XIV (1911-12); XXI (1917-26); XXIX (1927-37); XXX (1937-46); XXXI (1939-48); LCC, Stats. of MBs, 1956-7, 1962-3.