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Census returns
In c.1735, Browne Willis estimated the population at 1,100, which is remarkably close to the first official figure. In 1766 Rev. John Rawbone stated that there were 104 houses, presumably using a different definition from the 1801 Census.
| 1801 | Total population: 1,101 (520 m, 581 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 219 (by 225 families) | ||
| 1811 | Total population: 1,222 (624 m, 598 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 223 (by 227 families) | ||
| 1821 | Total population: 1,222 (592 m, 630 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 260 (by 291 families) | ||
| Families chiefly employed in agriculture: 144 | ||
| Families chiefly employed in trade, manufacture or handicraft: 124 | ||
| 1831 | Total population: 1,290 (605 m, 685 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 262 (by 295 families) | ||
| Families chiefly employed in agriculture: 127 | ||
| Families chiefly employed in trade, manufacture or handicraft: 108 | ||
| 1841 (see transcription) | Total population: Winslow 1,333 (631 m, 702 f), Shipton 101 (46 m, 55 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: Winslow 275, Shipton 19 | ||
| Aged under 20: 323 m, 328 f | ||
| Aged 20 and over: 354 m, 429 f | ||
| 1851 | Total population: 1,889 (926 m, 963 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 358 | ||
| 1861 | Total population: 1,890 (932 m, 958 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 376 | ||
| 1871 | Total population: 1,826 (858 m, 968 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 352 | ||
| 1881 | Total population: 1,663 (777m, 886 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 358 | ||
| 1891 | Total population: 1,704 (791 m, 913 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 362 | ||
| 1901 | Total population: 1,703 (759 m, 944 f) | |
| Inhabited houses: 379 | ||
| 1911 | Total population: 1,698 (813 m, 885 f) | |
| Families or separate occupiers: 407 | ||
| 1921 | Total population: 1,532 (719 m, 813 f) | |
| Separate dwellings occupied: 396 | ||
| 1931 | Total population: 1,539 (712 m, 827 f) | |
| Separate dwellings occupied: 418 | ||
| 1951 | Total population: 1,520 (719 m, 801 f) |
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| Separate dwellings occupied: 471 | ||
| 1961 | Total population: 2,072 (981 m, 1,091 f) |
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| Separate dwellings occupied: 624 | ||
| 1971 | Total population: 2,477 (1,145 m, 1,,332 f) |
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| Households: 790 | ||
| 1981 | Total population: 3,173 (1,547 m, 1,626 f) |
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| Households: 1,139 | ||
| 1991 | Total population: 4,005 (1,924 m, 2,081 f) |
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| Households: 1,556 | ||
| 2001 | Total population: 4,519 (2,125 m, 2,394 f) |
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| Households: 1,855 | ||
| 2011 | Total population: 4,407 (2,132 m, 2,275 f) |
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| Households: 1,940 | ||
Before the first census, Frederic Morton Eden (The State of the Poor, 1797, III, cccliii), estimated the population of Winslow at 1,100, and gave the number of houses as 101 paying window tax and about 110 exempt.
There are no figures for Winslow in the national population returns of 1603 (Diocesan Population Return) and 1676 ("Compton Census"). In the Diocesan Population Return of 1563, Winslow was erroneously included in the Diocese of Lincoln, instead of London where it belonged. The return lists 40 households for Winslow and 14 for Shipton. This seems to be an underestimate as there are 32 for Granborough, 28 for Little Horwood, 45 for East Claydon and 71 for Great Horwood with Singleborough. Source: Alan M. Dyer & D.M. Palliser (eds), The Diocesan Popluation Returns for 1563 and 1603 (British Academy, 2005).