GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND Census of Population 1961 COUNTY OF ANTRIM Printed and presented pursuant to 9 Eliz. 2, Chap. 8 BELFAST: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE PRICE 1 5s. Od. NET GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE Census of Population 1961 COUNTY OF ANTRIM Printed and presented pursuant to 9 Eliz. 2, Chap. 8 BELFAST: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1964 INTRODUCTION In accordance with the Census Act (Northern Ireland), 1960, a Census of the population was taken on the '23rd April, 1961, which was also the date of Censuses in the other parts of the United Kingdom. It was the fourth since the establishment of the Government of Northern Ireland, previous Censuses having been taken in 1926, 1937 and 1951. The 1961 Census was much fuller, as regards the nioinber and scope of the .questions, than any of its predecessors. Compared with the 1951 enumeration, the basic questions were much the same but enquiries about nationality, education, occupation and employment were substantially modified. New questions asked for information concerning persons with certain scientific and technological qualifica­ tions, the niomber of children of women who were or had been married, the type of accommodation occupied by private households, whether such accommodation was owned or rented and the extent to which piped water, cooking and toilet facilities were available. In November, 1961, a Preliminary Report was published giving population figures for each county, county borough and administrative area, together with information on the ages and religious denominations of the people by counties and county boroughs, and the numbers of private dwellings and households in each administrative area. A new Topographical Index, replacing the edition issued in the series of Reports on the 1926 Census, was published in January, 1963. This Report is the second of seven county voliames to be published on the 1961 Census. The statistics therein supersede those in the Preliminary Report and may be accepted as final. It is generally consistent in design and scope with the Report already published for Belfast County Borough, and the remaining county volumes will be in similar form. Although details of'population and habitable buildings in respect of townlands in rural districts are not given in the county volumes, the figures, for which a charge may be made depending on the extent of the information required, are available on application to the General Register Office. A General Report will follow the county volumes. It will summarize for the whole country the information in the county volumes and, in some respects, deal with it in greater detail. The General Report will also contain certain additional information, including that on persons with scientific and technological qualifica­ tions, which has not been analysed on a county basis. There will be a separate Report on the Fertility of Marriage. General Register Office, Fermanagh House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, '2. November, 1963- 111 CONTENTS PART I - EXPLANATORY NOTES Area Population Administrative divisions Buildings for habitation Types of private dwellings Tenure of private dwelling accommodation Households Household arrangements Rooms Valuation Usual address Birthplace Nationality Religion Terminal education age Occupations and industries Social class and socio-economic groups Convention as to dots (. ) and dashes (-) Completion and revision of Census information PART II - STATISTICAL NOTES AREA TOPULATION Natural increase Admini strative areas Parliamentary constituencies PRIVATE DWELLINGS AND HOUSEHOLDS Total dwellings Inhabited dwellings Type and tenure of inhabited dwellings Private households Rooms and density of occupation Household arrangements Household socio-economic groups USUAL ADDRESS SEX, AGE AND MARITAL CONDITION Sex distribution Ages Marital condition BIRTHPLACE AND NATIONALITY RELIGION lERMINAL EDUCATION AGE OCCUPATIONS AND INDUSTRIES Occupations Social class and socio-economic groups Industries Iv PART III TABLES Abbreviations:- Co. = County; A.A. = Administrative Area, I.e. municipal borough, urban district or rural district; C.E.D, = County Electoral Division; D.E.D. = District Electoral Division of a rural district; Tovffi = town, village or housing estate consisting of a separate and Identifiable cluster of fifty or more dwellings but having no legally defined boundary; towns forming continuous housing development from an administrative urban area are excluded. Area for Table SUBJECT OF TABLE which page No, statistics 1 are given 1 Area, Buildings for Habitation and Population, 1961 Co. 1 £ Population, 1821-1961 Co. 1 3 Population, 1951 and 1961, and Intercensal Cftanges Co., A.A»s. 1 4 Area, Popifl'atlon, Buildings for Habitation, Co., A.A's,, Private Households and Valuation D.E.D's., Towns 2 5 Area, Population, Buildings for Habitation, Private Households and Valuation Co., C.E.D's. U 6 Private Dwellings: Inhabited Dwellings by Building Tlype, Tenure and Rooms Co., A.A»S. 13 7 Private Households: Size, Rooms Occupied, and Density of Room Occupation Co.", A.A«s. 22 8 private Households: Availability of Household Arrangements by Tenure and Type of Accommodation Co., A.A»s. 28 9 Private Households: Households and Persons therein by Tenure of Accommodation,. Rooms Occupied and Socio-economic Group of Head of Household Co. 33 10 Inhabited Buildings, etc., other than Private Dwellings: Class, Number, Total Population and (for Institutions) Number of Inmates Co., A.A»s. 34 11 Population, Parliamentary Electors and Members of Parliament Parliamentary Constituencies 36 12 Adjustment of Enumerated Population to obtain Resident Population Co., A.A»s. 36 15 Ages by Single Years, Sex and Marital Condition Co. 37 14 Ages by Quinquennial Groups, Sex and Marital Condition Co., A.A»s. 40 15 Birthplaces Co. 44 16 Birthplaces: Persons bom outside Northern Ireland by Religion and Place of Birth Co. 45 17 Nationality:, Persons bom outside the British Isles by Nationality and Usual Address a year ago Co. 45 18 Religions Co., A.A»S. 46 19 Religions: Population under 22 years by Individual Years and 20 years and over by Quinquennial Groups Co. 47 20 Education: Teimlnal Education Ages of Persons 15 years and over by Sex and Age Groups Co. 48 21 Education: Terminal Education Ages of Persons 15 Years and over by Sex, Age Group and Occupation Order Co. 49 22 Occupations: Population aged 15 and over by Occupation and Industrial Status Co. 51 23 Occupations: Occupied Population aged 15 and over by Occupation, Marital Condition and Age Group Co, 58 24 Occupations: Population aged 15 and over by Socio-economic Group, Social Class and Age Group Co, 71 25 Industries: WorKlng Population aged 15 and over by Industry (excluding persons out of work.) Co. 72 PART I EXPLANATORY NOTES AND DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN THE REPORT AREA The acreages given are as measured by the Ordnance Survey and relate to the County and its administrative and other areas as constituted at the date of the 1961 Census, Foreshore is excluded. Acreages of areas covered by the larger rivers, lakes and tideways are also excluded from the body of Tables 4' and 5, but the total is given in a footnote thereto. POPULATION The 1961 Census population comprises all living persons, irrespective of their usual address or nationality, who spent Census night in the area of enumeration. Members of the Armed Forces (including those of Commonwealth and foreign countries except personnel aboard foreign naval vessels) are included. Persons travelling on Census night were enumerated with the population of the .district in which they arrived the next day unless they had already been enumerated elsewhere. Persons on vessels at moorings or anchorage in Northern Ireland waters or aboard ships on coastwise voyage to Northern Ireland ports were counted as part of the population of the district containing the mooring, anchorage or arrival port. Population figures for the 1951 Census are adjusted to relate to areas as con­ stituted at the date of the 1961 Census. Figures for earlier Censuses relate, generally, to areas as constituted at the respective Census dates. ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS The County is divided into sixteen administrative areas - three municipal boroughs, seven urban districts and six rural districts. The municipal boroughs and three of the urban districts are divided into wards which form the territorial units for local council elections; in each of the remaining four urban districts, the entire district is the unit for municipal elections. In rural districts," the units are the district electoral divisions of which there are 116. The County is also divided into twenty-three county electoral divisions which are the units for county council election purposes* There are seven parliamentary constituencies for elections to the Northern Ireland Parliament, and two constituencies for elections to the United Kingdom Parliament. The following changes, affecting Census statistics, took place in the constitution or boundaries of administrative areas during the intercensal period:- (i) A portion of Lisburn Rural District was transferred to Lisburn Urban District (1st April, 1955). (ii) A portion of Larne Rural District was transferred to Larne Municipal Borough (1st April, 1956). (iii) Belfast Rural District was abolished and a portion became the Urban District of Newtownabbey; the remainder was transferred to the Rural Districts of Antrim, Larne and Lisburn (1st April, 1958). BUILDINGS FOR HABITATION For enumeration record purposes, a building was broadly defined as a structure comprising one or more rooms or other spaces enclosed within external or party walls. (96a43A) Vi A structure detached from but subsidiary to a main building was regarded as part of the main building unless it contained residential accommodation normally occupied by a separate household. Non-permanent structures such as huts, shacks and .converted railway carriages and mobile structures such as tents and caravans were treated as buildings only if they were occupied on Census night or were some person's usual residence. Unoccupied structures of wood, asbestos, corrugated iron, etc,, used as casual residences, e.g.