GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND CENSUS OF POPULATION OF NORTHERN IRELAND 1951 County of Antrim Printed dt presented pursuant to 14 & 15 Geo. 6, Ch. 6 BELFAST : HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1954 PRICE Is 6{t NET GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND CENSUS OF POPULATION OF NORTHERN IRELAND 1951 County of Antrim Printed & presented pursuant to 14 & 15 Geo. 6, Ch. 6 BELFAST : HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1954 ii PREFACE Three censuses of population have been taken since the Government of Northern Ireland was established. The first enumeration took place in 1926 and incorporated questions relating to occupation and industry, orphanhood and infirmities. The seco| enumeration made in 1937 was of more limited scope and was intended to bridge the gapl between the census of 1926 and the census which it was proposed to take in 1941, but which had to be abandoned owing to the outbreak of war. The census taken as at mid­ night of 8th-9th April, 1951, forms the basis of this report .and like that in 1926 questions were asked as to the occupations and industries of the population. The length of time required to process the data collected at an enumeration befo| it can be presented in the ultimate reports is necessarily considerable. In order tc meet immediate requirements, however, two Preliminary Reports on the 1951 census were published. The first of these gave the population figures by administrative areas as towns and villages, and by Counties and County Boroughs according to religious profes­ sion. The Second Report, which was restricted to Counties and County Boroughs, gave the population by age groups. The present Volume is the second of seven county volumes (the Belfast County Borough volume having been published a short time ago) and has been prepared (as were also the Preliminary Reports) in accordance with the provisions of the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1951. The statistics now published supersede those shown in the Preliminary Reports and may be accepted as final. This volume is consistent in design and scope with that published for the Belfast County Borough and the remaining County volumes which will be published at intervals I completed will be prepared in like manner. 1 A General Report for the whole of Northern Ireland will follow the county volume! This will bring together, and in some respects show in greater detail, the informatiojj contained in the county volumes. Additional features will also be introduced parties larly in regard to the distribution of the people industrially by age and marital condition. Following the 1926 census a topographical index was published dealing with each type~bf area for which statistics were supplied in the county series. A supplement to this index was published after the 1937 census and a further supplement in respect of the 1951 census will be prepared in due course. Census publications are obtainable either directly from H.M, Stationery Office, Chichester House, Chichester Street, Belfast, or from any book-seller. L. C. MULLIGAN, REGISTRAR-GENERAL General Register Office, Fermanagh House, Belfast. December, 1953. (10S30) iii CONTENTS PART I •-• EXPLANATORY NOTES Page Area v Population v Administrative Divisions v Houses vi Rooms vi Households vi Rateable Valuation vi Usual Residence vii Birthplaces vii Religions vii Occupations and Industries vii Numbering of Tables viii Tables containing dots (•) and dashes (-) viii Correction of Census Data viii PART II - STATISTICAL NOTES AREA ix POPULATION ix Natural Increase ix Municipal Boroughs, Urban and Rural Districts jc Parliamentary Constituencies xi Education Area xii HOUSING Xii Houses - Private and Non-Private xii Inhabited Private Houses xiv Private Households xv Densities xvi INSTITUTIONS, ETC. xvii BSUAL RESIDENCE xviii •EX, AGE AND MARITAL CONDITION xix •DUCATION xxi ilRTHPLACES xxi •ELIGIONS xxiii •CCUPATIONS xxiv PIDUSTRIES xxiv «0330) IV CONTENTS (continued) PART III - TABLES ABBREVIATIONS:- Co. = County; M.B. = Municipal Borough; U.D. = Urban District; R.D. = Rural District; C.E.D. = County Electoral Division; D.E,D. = District Electoral Division; Tovns = Town created under the Towns Improvement (I) Act, 1864, and clusters of 50 or more houses. ' Area for Table SUBJECT OF TABLE vdiich Page Statistics are given 1 Area, Houses, and Population, 1951 Co. 1 Z Population, 1821 - 1951 Co. 1 3 Population, 1937 and 1951, and analysis of Intercensal Changes Co. 1 1 4 Area, Population, Houses, Accommodatloji, and Valuation Co., M.B»s., 2 U,D*s., R.D!s., D.E.D»S., TOwn- lands and Towns. 5 Area, Population, Houses, Accommodation, and Valuation Co., C.E.D»s. 47 6 Private Houses, Rooms, Households and Population Co., M. B' s., 49 U.D's., R.D»s. 7 Private Households; Size, Rooms Occupied, and Density of Room Co., M.B's., 53 Occupation U.D»s., R.D's. 8 Inhabited Buildings, etc., other than Private Houses: Class, Co., M.B»s., 59 Number, Total. Population and (for institutions) Number of Inmates U.D'S., liD'S. 9 Population, Parliamentary Electors and Members of Parliament Parliamentary ei Constituencies 10 Adjustment of Enumerated Population to obtain Resident Co., M.B»s., 62 Population U.D's., R.b«s. 11 Ages (Individual years) and Marital Condition Co. 62 12 Ages (Q^lnq^ennlal Groups) and Marital Condition Co., M.B»s., 64 ] ! U.D«s.r R.D»S. 13 Education; Persons attending Educational Establishments, Co. 69 distinguishing Age and whether Full-time or Part-time 14 Birthplaces .00- 69 15 Persons bom outside Northern Ireland by Religion and Duration / Co., H.B*s., .70 of Residence In Northern Ireland / 1 U.D'S., R^D's. / 16 Religions / Co., M.B'S., 76 U.D»S., R.D«S. 17 Religions; Population under 22 years by Individual years ajid CO. • 77 20 years and over by Qjainquennial Groups 18 Occupations of Population aged 14 and over • C30. 78 1 !* ' 19 CO. , 83 Occupations of Population aged 14 years and over by Industrial Status 20 Given for Belfast County Borough only CO. 85 21 Industrial Analysis of Occupied Population aged 14 years and Co. 86, over (10330) PART I EXPLANATORY NOTES AND DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THIS VOLUME AREA The acreages given are as measured by the Ordnance Survey (foreshore being excluded), and relate to the several administrative areas as constituted at the date of the 1951 census. The^ acreage covered by the larger rivers, lakes and tideways is not included in the body of Tables 4 and 5 but is given in footnotes thereto. POPULATION The population c,6mprises all persons on land, in vessels on inland waters or in port or at anchorage on census night, and also persons on coastwise voyages who arrived in port within a brief period not having been enumerated elsewhere. Members of the Forces of the Croym are also included. ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS The County is divided into sixteen county districts (three municipal boroughs, six urban districts and seven rural districts) comprising 146 district electoral divisions, twenty-three of which are coterminous with entire municipal boroughs or urban districts or wards thereof (see table 4). Wards, where they exist in boroughs or urban districts are the units for the purpose of municipal elections. In rural districts the unit is the district electoral division. The County is also divided into twenty-three county electoral divisions, which are the units for the purpose of county council elections (see table 5). Owing to the abolition of the Boards of Guardians, details of the Poor Law Union and Dispensary districts are not given in this volume. These areas, however, form respectively, superintendent registrars' and registrars' districts for the registration of marriages, births and deaths, and consequently the census tabulations have been pre­ pared in a manner suitable for the extraction of data according to these areas should such be required. There are seven parliamentary constituencies for elections to the Northern Ireland P&rliament, and two for elections to the United Kingdom Parliament (see table 9). The Antrim Education Area is coterminous with the County. The changes made in the constitution or boundaries of administrative divisions of the County during the last intercensal period are as follows:- (a) Ballymena Urban District was made a Municipal Borough (23rd May, 1939). (b) Larne Urban District was made a Municipal Borough (23rd May, 1939); and the boundary was extended (1st April, 1948). (c) Carrickfergus Urban District was made a Municipal Borough (1st July, 1949), the boundary having been extended (1st April, 1946). (d) A portion of Larne Rural District was transferred to Carrickfergus Urban District (1st April, 1946); and a portion to Larne Municipal Borough (1st April, 1948). (e) The creation by the Representation of the People Act 1948 of two parliamentary constituencies for the purpose of election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 0530) HOUSES 1. The term "House" means (a) each structurally separate dwelling (except institutions) having distinct access to the street, common stair, or landing. (b) each institution (viz., hospital, sanitorium, nursing home, asylum, religious, welfare or charitable community, residential school, barracks or other premises under Naval, Military, Air Force, or Police discipline, prison or other place of detention), regardless of the number of buildings within its precincts. (c) each boat, caravan, tent or other movable dwelling if occupied on census night but not otherwise. 2. The term 'Private House" means a dwelling other than an. institution, hotel, boarding house, premises occupied by a caretaker, vessel, movable dwelling, barn, stable or outhouse occupied on census night. The term includes premises comprising a shop with dwelling attached, unless occupied by a caretaker. 3. The terms "Boarding House" and ^Tjodging House" cover habitations described as such, and any private house containing three or more-boarders or lodgers.