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This table shows the enormous increase which has taken
place in Hackney and Stoke Newington since 1801, when the
population of the former was only 12,730, and of the latter,
1,462, making a total of 14,192 for the whole District, or but
little more than one.tenth of the present numbers. In 1811 the
population numbered 18,920, being an increase of nearly 5,000
in the ten years, Hackney having advanced by more than 4,000,
and Stoke Newington not quite 700. In 1821 the population
was 25,170, of which 22,494 belonged to Hackney, and 2,676
to Stoke Newington, the increase being but a little more than
6,000 in the ten years. In 1831 there were 34,527 residents in
the District, being an excess of more than 9,000 persons.
Between 1831 and 1841 the increase was not so great as in the
previous decade, as the population was only 42,261 against the
34,527. At the Census of 1851 there were 58,429 residents;
so that there were above 16.000 persons more than in 1841, and
nearly the whole of this large number belonged to Hackney, as
in 1841 the population was 37,771, and in 1851 no less than
53,589. The Census of 1861 shows that a greater stride still
had been taken, as there were no less than 83,295 persons in
the District, being an addition of nearly 25,000; and at the