will be observed, however, that they both concur in proving the greater proportional increase of the mining population; and it cannot be doubted that the ratio of the increase exhibited by the militia, returns, comes much nearer the truth than that derived from the parliamentary returns.
TABLE I.─Population of the Hundred of Penwith during the present Century, showing the rate of Increase in each Parish, and in the Mining and Agricultural Districts respectively.
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| PARISHES | Population in | |||
| 1801 | 1811 | 1821 | 1831 | |
| I.─Mining Parishes. | ||||
| Camborne | 4811 | 4714 | 6219 | 7699 |
| Crowan | 2587 | 3021 | 3973 | 4332 |
| Gwinear | 1654 | 1952 | 2383 | 2728 |
| Illogan | 2895 | 4078 | 5170 | 6072 |
| Redruth | 4924 | 5903 | 6607 | 8191 |
| St. Just | 2799 | 3057 | 3666 | 4667 |
| Perran | 506 | 626 | 786 | 1033 |
| St. Hillary | 990 | 1248 | 1558 | 1728 |
| Towednack | 465 | 532 | 582 | 737 |
| Total | 21611 | 25131 | 30944 | 37187 |
| II.─Agricultural Parishes. | ||||
| Ludgvan | 1324 | 1431 | 1839 | 2322 |
| Tow of Marazion | 1009 | 1022 | 1253 | 1393 |
| St. Michael's Mount | ── | 125 | 223 | 161 |
| St. Ives | 2714 | 3281 | 3526 | 4746 |
| Buryan | 1161 | 1188 | 1495 | 1707 |
| Gulval | 1076 | 1224 | 1353 | 1467 |
| St. Levan | 400 | 434 | 490 | 515 |
| Gwithian | 329 | 372 | 412 | 539 |
| St. Erth | 1122 | 1317 | 1604 | 1922 |
| Madron | 1564 | 1817 | 2011 | 2058 |
| Town of Penzance | 3382 | 4022 | 5224 | 6563 |
| St. Paul, including fishing villages | 2937 | 3371 | 3790 | 4191 |
| Sancred | 782 | 790 | 1001 | 1069 |
| Sennen | 431 | 495 | 637 | 689 |
| Zennor | 544 | 671 | 715 | 811 |
| Lelant | 1083 | 1180 | 1271 | 1602 |
| Morvah | 282 | 273 | 325 | 377 |
| Phillack | 1475 | 2119 | 2529 | 3053 |
| Total Agricultural Parishes | 21615 | 25132 | 29698 | 35215 |
| Total Mining Parishes | 21611 | 25131 | 30944 | 37187 |
| Grand Total | 43226 | 50263 | 60642 | 72402 |
