Table of population of Middlesex

The Environs of London: Volume 3, County of Middlesex. Originally published by T Cadell and W Davies, London, 1795.

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'Table of population of Middlesex', in The Environs of London: Volume 3, County of Middlesex, (London, 1795) pp. 642-644. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-environs/vol3/pp642-644 [accessed 12 April 2024]

PRESENT STATE of POPULATION in the PARISHES treated of in the Second and Third Volumes.

The inhabitants have been numbered in the parishes of Hayes, Heston, Isleworth, Teddington, Twickenham, and Twyford. A person was employed to number those of Hackney, but met with such difficulties that he gave up the talk when it was too late to procure any other to undertake it. The result of his inquiry, as far as it was carried in to execution, shewed that in 475 houses, being the whole of Church-street and part of Marestreet, there were 2521 inhabitants. The whole number of houses (including the 475 at Hackney) is 2339, the inhabitants 12995. The proportion is not so high as appeared by the survey made of some parishes in Surrey, being little more than 5½ to a house; allowing for empty houses, I think 5½ will be a fair calculation. In the following table they are estimated in that proportion, excepting in those parishes in which the actual number is given:

Number of Houses. Number of Inhabitants.
Acton 240 1320
Barnet Friarn 78 275
Bethnal Green 3500 19,250
Brentford 270 1485
Bromley St. Leonards 200; 1100
Chelsea 1350 7425
Chiswick 426 2343
Ealing 700 3850
Edgware 76 418
Edmonton 810 4455
Enfield 920 5060
Finchley 250 1375
Fulham (and Hammersmith) 1492 8206
St. George in the East 3700 20,350
Greenford Magna 69 380
Greenford Parva 5 33
Hackney 1600 8800
Hadley 94 517
Hampstead 686 3773
Hanwell 107 588
Harrow on the Hill 400 2200
Hayes 141 707
Hendon 240 1320
Heston 281 1632
Hornsey 420 2310
Isleworth 712 4190
Islington 1200 6600
Kensington 1240 6820
Kingsbury 52 286
Limehouse 910 5005
Marybone 6200 34100
Newington 200 1100
Northall 60 330
Norwood 129 710
Paddington 340 1870
Pancras 4000 22,000
Shadwell 1300 7150
Stanmore Magna 140 770
Stanmore Parva 94 517
Stepney 3100 17,050
Stratford-Bow 330 1815
Teddington 118 580
Tottenham 468 2574
Twickenham 610 3355
Twyford 1 10
Wilsdon 130 715
39,389 216,829