GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND Census of Population 1961 COUNTY OF TYRONE Printed and presented pursuant to 9 Eliz. 2, Chap. 8 BELFAST: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE PRICE 15s. Od. NET GOVERNMENT OF NORTHERN IRELAND GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE Censu$ of Population 1961 COUNTY OF TYRONE 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 niomber 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 subst^htially modified. New questions asked for information concerning persons with certain scientific and technological qualifica­ tions, the number 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, 196.1, a Preliminary Report was published giving population figures for each county, county borough and administrative area, together with information on the ages and religious denbminations 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 completes the series of seven county volumes to be published on the 1961 Census. It is generally consistent in design and scope with the Reports already published for Belfast County Borough and the Counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh and Londonderry. The statistics therein supersede those in the Preliminary Report and may be accepted as final. Althoiogh details of population and habitable buildings in respect of townlands in rural districts are not given in the coun^ty 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. Apri I, igd/f. 111 CONTENTS PART I - EXPLANATORY NOTES Page Area- vii Population vii Administrative divisions vii Buildings for habitation vii Types of private dwellings viii Tenure of private dwelling accommodation ix Households ix Household arrangements .ix Rooms X Valuation X Usual address X Birthplace X Nationality / xi Religion ' • xi Terminal education age xi Occupations and industries xi Social class and socio-economic groups xii Convention as to dots (•) and dashes (-) xiv Completion and revision of Census information xiv PART II - STATISTICAL NOTES AREA XV POPULATION XV Natural increase XV Administrative areas XV i Parliamentary constituencies XV i PRIVATE DWELLINGS AND HOUSEHOLDS xvii Total dwellings XV ii Inhabited dwellings xvii Type and tenure of inhabited dwellings xix Private households XX Rooms and density of occupation XX i Household arrangements xxii Household socio-economic groups xxiii USUAL ADDRESS XX iv SEX, AGE AND MARITAL CONDITION XX iv Sex distribution XXV Ages XXV Marital condition XXV i BIRTHPLACE AND NATIONALITY XXV i RELIGION XXV ii TERMINAL EDUCATION AGE xxviii OCCUPATIONS AND INDUSTRIES XXX Occupations XXX •Social class and socio-economic groups xxxii Industries XXX ii PART III - TABLES Abbreviations:- Co» ' County; A.A. = Administrative Area, i.e. urban district or rural district; C.E^D. « County Electoral Division; D.E»B. « District Electoral Division of a rural district; Town *= 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 ^ which No. SUBJECT OF TABLE 1 statistics Page are given 1 Area, Buildings for Habitation and Population, 1961 : Go. 1 1 2 Population, 1821-1961 Co. ' 1 3 Population, 1951 and 1961, and Intercensal Changes Co.., A.A.•s j 1 4 Area, Population, Buildings for Habitation, Co.., A.A. "S, D.E.D. 's. Private Households and Valuation Towns 2 5 Area, Population, Buildings for Habitation, Co., C.E.D.•s 11 Private Households and Valuation 6 Private Dwellings: Inhabited Dwellings by Building Type, Co.., A.A. "s 13 Tenure and Rooms 7 Private Households: Slae, Rooms Occupied, and Co., A.A.»S 19 Density of Room Occupation 8 Private Households: Availability of Household Arrangements Co., A.A.»S 23 by Tenure and T^e of Accomodation 9 Private Households: Households and Persons therein by Co. 26 Tenure of Accommodation, Rooms Occupied and Socio-economic Group of Head of Household 10 Inhabited Buildings, etc., other than Private Dwellings: Co., A.A.»S 27 Class, Number, Total Population and (for Institutions) Number of Inmates 11 Population, Parliamentary Electors and Members of Parliament Parliamentary Constituencies 28 12 Adjustaraent of Eniiraerated Population to obtain Co., A.A.•s 28 Resident Population 13 Ages by Single Years, Sex and Marital Condition Co. 29 14 Ages hy Quinquennial Groups, Sex and Marital Condition Co., A.A.»s 31 15 Birthplaces Co. 34 16 Birthplaces: Persons bom outside Northern Ireland by Co. 35 Religion and Place of Birth 17 Nationality: Persons bom outside the British isl^s by Co. 35 Nationality and Usual Address a yea;* ago 18 Religions Co., A.A.'s 36 19 Religions: Population under 22 years by Individual Years Co. 37 and 20 years and* over by Qulnauehnlal Groups 20 Education: Terminal Education Ages of Persbns 15 Years Co. 38 and over by Sex and Age Groups' 21 Education: Terminal Education Ages of Persons 15 Years Co. 39 and over by Sex, Age Group ^nd Occupation Order 22 Occupations: Population aged 15 and over by Occupation and Co. 41 industrial Status , 23 Occupations: Occupied Population aged 15 and over by Co. 49 Occupation, Marital Condition and Age Group 24 Occupations: Population aged 15 and over by Socio-economic ' Co. 61 Group, Social Class and Age Group j 25 Industries: Working Population aged 15 and over by Co. j 62 Industry (excluding persons out of work) VI 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 sp^ent Census night in the area of entimeration. 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. Except where otherwise stated, figures quoted in respect of previous Censuses relate to areas as constituted at the respective Census dates. It should be noted that there were no changes, affecting Census statistics, in the constitution or boundaries of administrative areas in the County during the last intercensal period. ADMINISTBATIVE DIVISIONS The County is divided into ten administrative areas - four urban districts and "six rural districts. Three of the urban districts are divided into wards which form the territorial units for local council elections; in the remaining urban area, the entire district is the unit for municipal elections. In rural districts, the units are the district electoral divisions of which there are 134. The County is also divided into twenty seven county electoral divisions which are the units for county council election purposes. There are five parliamentary constituencies for elections to the Northern Ireland Parliament. For elections to the United Kingdom Parliament, part of the County is combined with County Fermanagh to form one constituency and the remainder is combined with Magherafelt Rural District (in County Londonderry) to form another constituency. BUILDINGS FOR HABITATION For enumeration record purposes, a building was broadly defined as a structure comprising one or more rooms or oth^r spaces enclosed within external or party walls. 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.