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Statistics information for Caithness and places above it in the hierarchy
- County Population
(sources : The Third Statistical Account of Scotland, The County of Caithness, John Smith (Ed)
and The Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799, Sir John Sinclair (Ed), Vol XVIII)- 1755 - 22,215
- 1790s- 24,802
- 1801 - 22,609 or 23,474
- 1811 - 23,419
- 1821 - 29,181
- 1831 - 31,459
- 1841 - 36,343
- 1851 - 38,709
- 1861 - 41,111
- 1871 - 39,992
- 1881 - 38,868
- 1891 - 37,177
- 1901 - 33,870
- 1911 - 32,010
- 1921 - 28,285
- 1931 - 25,056
- 1951 - 22,710
- 1961 - 27,370
- For a social and economic record of the parishes of Scotland, together with masses of statistical material, see Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland which was compiled in the 1790s and reprinted in more recent years by EP Publishing Limited of Wakefield, England.
- Follow-up works to this were the New Statistical Account (also known as the Second Statistical Account) which was prepared in the 1830s and 1840s; and more recently the Third Statistical Account which has been prepared since the Second World War.
- The online version of The Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-1799 and 1845.
- The Old Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-1799) is also available free on Electric Scotland as a series of downloads.
- Statistics from Scotland's Census are available at the National Records of Scotland. These are used by central and local government, health authorities and other organisations to allocate resources and plan services.
- For population figures see the Population section above.
- A Vision of Britain Through Time from the University of Portsmouth provides a vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends (from 1801 to 2001 census data) and historic descriptions.
