Census Dates

1801 Tuesday 10 March

1811 Monday 27 May

1821 Monday 28 May

1831 Sunday 29 May

1841 Sunday 6 June

1851 Sunday 30 March

1861 Sunday 7 April

1871 Sunday 2 April

1881 Sunday 3 April

1891 Sunday 5 April

1901 Sunday 31 March

1911 Sunday 2 April

1921 Sunday 19 June

1931 Sunday 26 April

1951 Sunday 8 April

1961 Sunday 23 April

1971 Sunday 25 April

1981 Sunday 5 April

1991 Sunday 21 April

2001 Sunday 29 April

The census should record people present at each dwelling at midnight at the end of the stated day. In later years this also included people, ie night time workers, who returned to the dwelling the following morning, and who had not been counted elsewhere.

The 1941 census didn't take place due to the war although a census was taken on Friday 29 September 1939 in order to issue National Identity Cards.