All Under 5 5 to 15 15 to 25 to 35 to 45 to 55 to 65 to 75 to 85 to 95 and
Ages. 25 35 45 55 65 75 85 94 upwds.
Males, 7065 10198 8948 8317 5963 4339 2464 1270 378 33 2
48977
Females 7147 11527 16585 14203 9080 6241 3768 2000 667 97 7
71322
Total, 14212 21722 25533 22520 15043 10580 6232 3270 1045 130 9
120299
From the above table it appears that there are an almost equal number of
the sexes under the age of 5. Between 5 and 15 the excess of females
begins, amounting to 1,329—this representing the “school” age, and the
preponderance of females being explained, with probability, by the large
number of girls’ schools in the parish. In the next three decades (15 to
45) there is a further large increase of females, viz., 7,637, 5,886, and
3,117 = (16,640), a considerable proportion of which doubtless consists
of domestic servants. The increase is maintained throughout the table,
but on a diminished scale, amounting in the three following decades
(45–75) to 3,936, viz., 1,902, 1,304, and 730. Of persons above 75 years
of age, 1,184 were enumerated; the excess of females being 358. The
preponderance of females at middle life and in old age is probably due to
the residence from choice of many independent persons, attracted by the
salubrity and by the social and other advantages of Kensington; and to
the greater longevity of women.
The superficial area of the parish is 2,190 acres, viz., 1,497 in the
Town sub-district, and 639 in Brompton. Some 300 or 400 acres are still
uncovered by buildings. The density of the population is about 74
persons to an acre. The total number of houses, including empties and
those in course of erection, slightly exceeds 20,000. The inhabited
houses at the middle of the year were about 17,667, an increase of 747
over the previous year. There were about 7.8 persons to each house on an
average throughout the parish; but at the census, 1871, it appeared that
the average in the Brompton Sub-district was only seven.
The subjoined table is of interest, showing as it does the remarkable
growth of the parish in wealth and population during the present century:
The Year. Population. Rateable Value. The Year.
1801 8,556 £75,916 1823
1821 14,428 93,397 1833
1841 26,834 142,772 1843
1851 44,053 257,103 1853
1861 70,108 375,333 1860
1871 120,299 590,711 1865
1874 (estmtd.) 138,000 817,326 1870
£1,119,442 (April) 1875