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Population information for Wemyss and places above it in the hierarchy

Wemyss

Year	Population
1755	3041
1801	3264
1851	5647
1901	15031	* boundary changed
1951	28463

There is a page with census statistics from 1755 to 1961 here.

See also A Vision of Britain and Histpop for population statistics.

Fife

Year	Population
1755	81570
1801	93743
1851	153546
1901	218837
1951	306778
2001	349429

There is a page with census statistics for all Fife parishes from 1755 to 1961 here.

A Vision of Britain provides population statistics from the 1801 census onwards.

Histpop, the online historical population reports website, provides statistics in the published population (census) reports (1801 - 1937).

Parish Populations

The population of the parishes of Fife, from 1755 to 1961.

	1755	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	* 1901	1911	1921	1931	1951	1961

Fife	81570	93743	101272	114556	128839	140140	153546	154770	160735	171931	187346	218837	267733	292925	276368	306778	320714

Abbotshall	1348	2501	2879	3267	4206	4811	5030	5193	5785	6435	6934	7733
Abdie	822	723	768	834	870	1508	1486	1381	1164	983	900	664	647	758	670	629	596
Aberdour	1198	1260	1302	1489	1751	1916	1945	1874	1697	1736	1977	1997	2147	3063	2055	1943	1855
Abernethy (part)		133	122	150	164	153	164	147	155	128	107
Anstruther Easter	1100	969	1008	1090	1007	997	1161	1155	1169	1248	1033	1024	991	873	682	509	397
Anstruther Wester	385	296	393	429	430	449	443	438	562	695	620	574	629	662	593	533	551
Arngask (part)		176	201	222	205	258	282	307	221	219	202
Auchterderran	1143	1045	1138	1488	1590	1913	3210	3457	4017	4332	6185	8626	17547	19088	16665	17602	16293
Auchtermuchty	1308	2060	2403	2754	3225	3356	3704	3285	2958	2322	2002	1884	1893	1763	1747	1831	1772
Auchtertool	389	396	501	536	527	530	517	609	529	706	721	742	781	884	683	558	506
Ballingry	464	277	269	287	392	436	568	736	982	1065	2275	4156	9214	10349	10353	13830	13384
Balmerino	565	786	921	965	1055	993	945	815	717	664	688	576	568	699	599	533	483
Beath	1099	613	668	729	921	973	1252	2390	3534	5442	8298	15812	24351	24912	21523	22641	20741
Burntisland	1390	1530	1934	2136	2366	2210	3158	3670	3872	4821	6174	5599	5305	6567	5809	5883	6188
Cameron	1295	1095	1005	1068	1207	1167	1207	1362	1158	1003	886	738	785	621	625	630	649
Carnbee	1293	1083	1098	1048	1079	1043	1129	1157	1088	1057	952	910	843	740	736	641	602
Carnock	583	860	884	1136	1202	1270	3191	2925	1764	1055	987	1349	1315	1611	1443	4334	4515
Ceres	2540	2352	2407	2840	2762	2944	2833	2723	2381	2063	1677	1545	1467	1445	1425	1376	1298
Collessie	989	930	954	1030	1162	1346	1520	1530	1703	1989	2073	2161	2215	2014	1955	2042	1879
Crail	2173	1652	1600	1854	1824	1737	1903	1931	1847	1740	1704	1605	1592	2017	1597	1592	1375
Creich	375	405	403	394	419	430	386	377	387	386	325	297	309	299	272	238	213
Culross	1695	1502	1611	1434	1488	1444	1487	1423	1354	1130	1096	1120	1499	3261	4088	4228	5305
Cults	449	699	766	853	903	889	915	800	767	704	700	628	617	589	589	536	523
Cupar	2192	4463	4758	5892	6473	6758	7427	6750	7102	7404	6990	6768	6736	6576	7109	8085	8215
Dairsie	469	550	553	589	605	669	708	638	687	693	606	464	503	540	537	492	503
Dalgety	761	890	816	912	1300	1265	1513	1569	1310	1321	1341	1133	1206	1653	1481	1578	1267
Dunbog	255	232	185	176	197	219	220	207	220	219	168	286	301	278	215	216	170
Dunfermline	8552	9980	11649	13681	17068	20217	21687	21187	23313	26568	28948	31697	35731	46977	41022	50831	53642
Dunino	598	326	294	343	383	471	289	370	325	297	277	272	292	219	197	183	190
Dysart	2367	5385	5506	6529	7104	7591	8739	8842	9682	11601	13626	16042
Elie	642	730	886	966	1029	907	843	826	775	670	764	1142	1147	2448	1251	1325	1289
Falkland	1795	2211	2317	2459	2658	2886	3102	2937	3069	2698	2470	2231	2356	2332	2181	2379	2316
Ferryport on Craig	621	920	1164	1461	1529	1741	2238	2013	2674	2818	3008	3445	3400	3424	3270	3326	3238
Flisk	318	300	318	301	286	270	213	313	280	259	248	232	232	215	156	201	157
Forgan	751	916	898	937	1090	1219	1125	1326	2243	3308	3763	4720	4771	3852	3810	3727	3581
Inverkeithing	1694	2228	2400	2512	3189	2530	2499	3124	3074	2565	2671	3465	6268	5464	4968	5139	5445
Kemback	420	626	625	634	651	778	956	896	1056	853	794	412	532	531	519	464	437
Kennoway	1240	1466	1517	1649	1721	2044	2257	2012	1703	1560	1458	1505	1721	1783	1709	3629	5424
Kettle	1621	1889	1968	2046	2071	2312	2601	2474	2323	2054	1939	1759	1715	1595	1518	1603	1509
Kilconquhar	2131	2005	2103	2317	2540	2605	2489	2431	2018	2053	2050	1517	1491	1319	1211	1197	1079
Kilmany	781	787	781	751	707	659	662	656	651	634	588	502	476	514	521	422	374
Kilrenny	1348	1043	1233	1494	1705	2039	2194	2534	3015	3198	2998	2950	2979	2431	2357	2271	2185
Kinghorn	2389	2308	2204	2443	2579	2935	3030	2981	3323	3650	3815	3400	2295	3212	2708	2899	2487
Kinglassie	998	908	983	1027	958	1155	1186	1266	1082	1292	1372	1478	1944	2271	2427	2521	4882
Kingsbarns	871	832	860	998	1023	968	893	937	922	795	753	652	638	640	535	511	425
Kirkcaldy	2296	3248	3747	4452	5034	5275	5719	6100	7003	8528	9994	14175
Kirkcaldy and Dysart													45410	45915	46019	50519	53750
Largo	1396	1867	1973	2301	2567	2751	2800	2626	2318	2234	2324	2046	2274	3215	2299	2500	2444
Leslie	1130	1609	1882	2200	2749	3625	3800	4332	4294	4345	3886	3960	3869	3660	3983	3765	3928
Leuchars	1691	1687	1672	1731	1869	1901	1991	1903	1727	2185	2370	2499	2605	2765	3221	3620	3631
Logie	413	339	369	440	430	419	467	410	402	390	360	285	341	370	325	299	235
Markinch	2188	3130	3981	4661	4967	5965	5843	5375	5413	5863	6377	6803	8058	8685	8477	8846	16861
Monimail	884	1066	1160	1227	1230	1162	1102	1054	918	834	769	720	694	681	687	622	485
Moonzie	249	201	183	209	188	174	198	179	154	148	128	138	146	133	120	111	79
Newburgh	1347	1936	1951	2190	2642	2897	2986	2693	2529	2191	1812	1780	1898	1992	2019	2270	2188
Newburn	438	412	428	398	418	419	375	374	362	344	322	296	283	273	238	191	166
Pittenweem	939	1072	1096	1200	1317	1339	1473	1710	1803	2119	1991	1911	1922	1774	1644	1649	1594
Saline	1285	945	1072	1123	1139	1057	1792	1610	1259	954	879	1012	1171	1379	1510	1413	1291
Scoonie	1528	1681	1726	2042	2566	2836	3115	3257	3178	3730	4693	6342	7474	7973	7953	9518	9538
St Andrews	4590	4203	4311	4899	5621	6017	6740	7092	7851	7835	7987
St Leonards	323	363	381	513	482	554	587	513	741	769	768
St Andrews and St Leonards												9410	9701	11044	9987	10977	11333
St Monans	780	852	849	912	1110	1157	1241	1498	1761	2054	1998	2007	2020	1916	1819	1619	1507
Strathmiglo	1695	1629	1697	1842	1940	2187	2509	2261	2267	2061	1753	1618	1726	1609	1561	1558	1418
Torryburn	1635	1403	1461	1443	1436	1435	1341	1229	1051	737	913	1130	1497	2224	1910	1611	1479
Tulliallan	1321	2800	3194	3558	3550	3196	3043	2410	2184	2207	2177	1862	2091	2298	2166	2119	2900
Wemyss	3041	3264	3691	4057	5001	5403	5647	6003	6400	7307	9955	15031	23104	24530	26619	28463	27947

* After the 1891 census, Culross and Tulliallan parishes were added to Fife, while the Fife parts of Arngask and Abernethy were transferred to Perthshire. There were also other boundary changes at various times, which are detailed on the parish pages. Pre-1901 figures for Culross and Tulliallan are included for comparison.

More detailed statistics are available online at histpop.

Sources:

Account of the Number of People in Scotland in the Year 1755 by Alexander Webster (in Scottish History Society Publications, Third Series, vol. XLIV, 1952).
1961 Census Scotland. Fife County Report, Table 4B: Population, Historic Table, 1801-1961.

Scotland

A useful work is Scottish Population History from the Seventeenth Century to the 1930s, edited by Michael Flinn and published by Cambridge University Press in 1977.
Another work in this field is James Kyd's Scottish Population Statistics which was published by the Scottish Academic Press in 1952 and reprinted in 1976.
Here are some population figures for Scotland throughout the ages.

Population of Scotland

Here are some statistics showing Scotland's population throughout the ages (sources: old directories, gazetteers, almanacs, census statistics etc):

before 1800 (mostly very approximate)
Year Population
1600 800,000
1707 1,000,000
1755 1,265,380
19th century
Year Population
1801 1,608,420
1811 1,805,864
1821 2,091,521
1831 2,364,386
1841 2,620,184
1851 2,888,742
1861 3,062,294
1871 3,360,018
1881 3,735,573
1891 4,025,647
20th century
Year Population
1901 4,472,103
1911 4,760,904
1921 4,882,497
1931 4,842,554
1939 5,006,700
1951 5,096,000 (*)
1961 5,179,000 (*)
1971 5,229,000 (*)
1981 5,130,735
1991 4,962,152

Year	Population
1600	800,000
1707	1,000,000
1755	1,265,380

Year	Population
1801	1,608,420
1811	1,805,864
1821	2,091,521
1831	2,364,386
1841	2,620,184
1851	2,888,742
1861	3,062,294
1871	3,360,018
1881	3,735,573
1891	4,025,647

Year	Population
1901	4,472,103
1911	4,760,904
1921	4,882,497
1931	4,842,554
1939	5,006,700
1951	5,096,000 (*)
1961	5,179,000 (*)
1971	5,229,000 (*)
1981	5,130,735
1991	4,962,152

Note: (*) indicates that a figure is the population total accurate to the nearest thousand.

UK and Ireland

Statistics on the population of the British Isles (archived copy).
Histpop, the online historical population reports website, in its census section provides access to all the published population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 - 1937. The site has a huge amount of statistical information both at a county level and at a parish or district level. There is no personal information on the site.
Comparative Account of the Population of Great Britain in the years 1801, 1811, 1821, and 1831. House of Commons (19 October 1831) 432pp. (Provides parish-level population counts, for England, Wales and Scotland.)

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