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1925
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POPULATION.
The Registrar-General estimates the population at the end of
June, 1925, to be 63,110, an increase of 180 on the population of
the previous year. At the Census which was taken on June 19th,
1921, the actual number Enumerated in the district was 61,299.
Owing to the abnormally fine weather in the summer of that year,
some holiday movement was already in progress, and the RegistrarGeneral,
from figures at his disposal, made certain adjustments
in the population of certain districts. The adjusted figure for
Acton was 62,000. The estimated increase in the population since
the Census is 1,110.
It is always difficult to estimate a population, and under present
conditions estimation is made increasingly difficult. With a falling
birth-rate, one would naturally expect a smaller average number
of persons living in each house, but in the intercensal period 19111921,
this expectation was not fulfilled. It is true that the average
number of persons per family was 4.05 in 1921, as compared with
4.41 inl911. But the average number of persons per house probably
did not undergo much change in that period because although there
was an increase of only 810, or 7.5 per cent. in the number of total
dwellings in the district, there was in the same period an increase
in the number of private families of 2,012, or 15.6 per cent.
Between April 1st, 1921, and October, 1925, 853 dwellings
have been erected ; that is, more dwellings have been erected since
the Census than were erected in the intercensal period 1911-1921.
The increase in the population during the last intercensal period
was 3,802 inhabitants. There is another method of estimating the
value of the Registrar-General's estimates of the population.

Between the autumn of 1921 and the autumn of 1925, there
has been an increase of 2,426 in the number of Parliamentary
electors.