Vision of Ireland | 1851 Census: Ages

1851 Census of Great Britain, Ages (Sample Report Title: Population Tables II. Ages, Civil Conditions, Occupations and Birthplace of the People: with the Numbers and Ages of the Blind, the Deaf-and-Dumb, and the inmates of workhouses, prisons, Lunatic Asylums, and Hospitals. Part I.), Table 4 : " Islands in the British Seas:- Ages of Males and Females enumerated March 31st, 1851".

List for top level	Orkney and Shetland	List for Scotland Dep

click on unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics		[Gender]	Both Sexes. [1]	ALL AGES. [2]	Under 5 Years. [3]	5-- [4]	10-- [5]	15-- [6]	20-- [7]	25-- [8]	30-- [9]	35-- [10]	40-- [11]	45-- [12]	50-- [13]	55-- [14]	60-- [15]	65-- [16]	70-- [17]	75-- [18]	80-- [19]	85-- [20]	90-- [21]	95-- [22]	100 and upd [23]
Orkney and Shetland ScoCnty Total		M.	62,533	27,495	3,480	3,571	3,754	3,141	1,912	1,393	1,318	1,314	1,294	1,219	1,319	1,066	803	633	557	380	210	100	27	3	1
		F.	-	35,038	3,373	3,521	3,251	3,542	3,185	2,629	2,240	2,073	1,806	1,778	1,855	1,366	1,360	983	911	575	380	155	43	9	3

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The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.