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POPULATION.
The population of Barnet taken at the Census of 1921, was
11,772.
In estimating the population of any District, the estimate is
always made to Midsummer.
The method of estimating the population adopted by the Registrar
General is based on the supposition that the rate of increase during
the decennial period 1921 to 1931 will be at the seme rate as in the
previous decennial period. Such an estimate would be approximately
correct in a District where the growth is more or less on a natural
basis viz:- excess of births over deaths; but in Barnet, occupying
as it does, the position of a suburb of London, this method is
obviously inapplicable, the migration being an ever increasing
quantity. The more correct method in this case would be to take the
number of inhabited houses and multiply by the average number of
persons per house existing at the Census.

DENSITY OF POPULATION.
The District has an area of 3,112 acres. The average number
of persons to the acre at the Census of 1921 was 3.8. The number
of persons to each acre is now estimated at 4.