NORTHERN IRELAND GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE CENSUS OF POPULATION 1971 COUIVTY REPORT ANTRIM Presented pursuant to Section 4(1) of the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 BFT u • $j : HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE PRICE £1.12 NET NORTHERN IRELAND GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE CENSUS OF POPULATION 1971 COUNTY REPORT ANTRIM Presented pursuant to Section 4(1) of the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 BELFAST : HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE CONTENTS PART 1—EXPLANATORY NOTES AND DEFINITIONS Page Area (hectares) vi Population vi Dwellings vi Private households . vii Rooms vis Tenure vii Household amenities viii Cars and garaging viii Non-private establishments ix Usual address ix Age ix Birthplace ix Religion . x Economic activity x Presentation conventions xi Administrative divisions xi iii PART II—TABLES Table \ Areas for which statistics No. Subject of Table are stated Page 1. Areas, Buildings for habitation and Population, 3971 County 1 2. Population, 1821-1971 County 1 3" Population 1966 and 1971, and Intercensal Administrative Areas 1 Changes 4- Acreage, Population, Buildings for Administrative Areas 2 Habitation and Households District Electoral Divisions and Towns 5. Ages by Single Years, Sex and Marital County 11 Condition 6. Population under 25 years by Individual Administrative Areas 13 Years and 25 years and over by Quinquennial Groups, Sex and Marital Condition 7. Population by Sex, Marital Condition, Area Administrative Areas 29 of Enumeration, Birthplace and whether visitor to Northern Ireland 8. Religions Administrative Areas 35 9. Private dwellings by Type, Households, Administrative Areas 36 Rooms and Population 10. Dwellings by Tenure and Rooms Administrative Areas 41 11. Private Households by Size, Rooms, Administrative Areas 47 Dwelling type and population 12. | Private Households by Size, Dwelling Type Administrative Areas 53 1 and Density of Population (persons per 1 I room) 13. | Households by Dwelling Type, Number of Administrative Areas 59 | Rooms and Household Amenities 14. Households by Number of Cars; Cars by Administrative Areas 76 Garaging Arrangements 15. One and Two-Person Households containing 1 Administrative Areas 80 Persons of Pensionable Age by Sex/ I Condition Combination 16. Persons Enumerated in each type of Non- Administrative Areas 81 private Establishment 17. Economically active persons by sex and Status Administrative Areas 83 iv 1971 CENSUS Programme of Census Reports 1. A Preliminary Report on the 1971 Census was published in October, 1971, and contained a brief statistical commentary and provisional figures of the population, private dwellings and private households for all local authority areas (counties, county boroughs, municipal boroughs, urban and rural districts) and population figures for small towns and villages with 50 or more houses but having no defined boundaries. 2. County Reports There will be reports for each of the Counties of Fermanagh, Tyrone, Londonderry (including London- derry County Borough), Armagh, Down, Antrim and the County Borough of Belfast. The tables give figures for counties, local authority areas, wards, district electoral divisions and towns and villages with 50 or more houses. The subjects covered are population and area (hectares); sex, age and marital condition; birthplace; religion; private dwellings, households, tenure and amenities; private motor cars and garaging; economically active persons and their sex and occupational status. 3. Summary Tables Summary Tables will give summaries of the information contained in the County Reports for Northern Ireland. Additionally, this report will give statistics covering the same subjects included in the County Reports for the new local authority areas which become functional on 1st October, 1973. 4. Housing and Household Composition Tables The Housing Tables will contain tabulations, not covered by the County Reports, on dwellings, households, tenure, household amenities, cars and garaging. Most tables will refer to Northern Ireland but some tables will include figures for local authority areas. The Household Composition Tables will provide information on the composition and social and economic characteristics of households. 5. Economic Activity Tables The Economic Activity Tables will give statistics of the occupied population based on their personal occupation and the employed population classified according to the branches of industry in which they are employed with reference to age, marital condition, employment status, socio-economic group, etc. Most tables will refer to Northern Ireland but some tables will cover local authority areas. 6. Workplace and Transport to Work Tables These tables will contain details of the resident population and the population employed in each area, the main workplace movements from one area to another and the main means of transport to work used for such movements. 7. Migration Tables These tables will give statistics of the numbers and characteristics of people who changed their usual residence in the year or in the five years before Census day with details of their age, sex, marital condition, area of previous residence; and of the number and characteristics of migrant households. 8. Religion Tables The Religion Tables will give, by the main religious denominations, details of the people by sex, age, marital condition, occupation, industry and socio-economic group; and the numbers and characteristics of households. 9. Education Tables These tables will give details of the age, sex, occupation and industry of those people who had obtained any academic or vocational qualification and details of the type level and subject of the qualification held. 10. Fertility Tables The Fertility Tables will give statistics derived from information supplied for married women under 60 years of age at Census about the date of marriage and the number and spacing of children born alive to them in marriage. v PART I Explanatory Notes and Definitions of Terms used in the Report Area (hectares) The figures, which have been supplied by the Ordnance Survey, relate to the various administrative and other divisions as constituted at the date of 1971 Census. Foreshore is excluded. The extent of areas covered by the large rivers, lakes and tideways are also excluded from the body of Table 4, but the total is given in a footnote thereto. A hectare is equivalent to 2.471 acres. Population The 1971 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 enumrated 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 anchorages in Northern Ireland waters or on board ships on coastwise voyages to Northern Ireland ports were counted as part of the population of the district containing the mooring, anchorage or arrival port. (The enumerated population excludes persons who, although usually resident in the area, spent census night elsewhere. People on night work were regarded as present in their homes for census purposes). Population figures for the 1961 and 1966 Censuses are adjusted to relate to areas as constituted at the date of the 1971 Census. Figures for earlier censuses relate, generally, to areas as constituted at the respective census dates. Dwellings Dwellings are classified on the basis of instructions issued to the Census enumerators and which are summarised as follows: Dwellings were normally private dwelling houses, bungalows, including prefabricated bungalows pro­ vided by a local authority, or flats with independent access to the street or to a common staircase or hall Where houses or other buildings had been adapted to provide residential accommodation in smaller units, these smaller units were regarded as dwellings if they were structurally separate, i.e., if such a unit had a separate front door to the street, or if access to the main door was gained by means of a common staircase or landing. In order for such a unit to count as a dwelling it also had to be self-contained, allowing movement between its rooms internally without making use of the common staircase or landing, and the household arrangements, viz., kitchen, bathroom and water closet were not shared with the occupants of another unit of accommodation in the building. Bed-sitting rooms (sometimes called flatlets) were not counted as separate dwellings. An occupied dwelling is one in which at least one household was enumerated on census night. An occupier absent dwelling is one in which at least one household usually, or occasionally, lives but was absent on census night. A vacant dwelling was one which was fit or ready for habitation but was awaiting occupancy—this type of dwelling would invariably be unfurnished. Derelict or uninhabitable dwellings were ignored by the census enumerators. Separate dwellings within non-private establishments In these premises if a group of people were regarded as forming a private household their accommodation was regarded as constituting a dwelling even if it was not structurally separate and had access to the street only through the hotel, hospital, etc. Houses attached to hotels, hospitals, etc., were only regarded as dwellings if they were occupied by private households; if occupied by hotel guests or hospital patients