Analysis of Births by English County etc.

The number of persons born in each English county, or foreign country etc. is given for each census year in the following table:

County, country, etc.	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	Total
Bedfordshire		8	6	10	18	19	26	25	112
Buckinghamshire		225	229	286	293	312	307	351	2003
Cambridgeshire		4	10	15	7	9	19	23	87
Cheshire		2			1	3	6	11	23
Cumberland		5	3	2	2	5	4	4	25
Derbyshire		3	1	6	4	4	7	8	33
Devon		13	24	30	33	24	47	59	230
Dorset		8	16	18	19	20	34	28	143
Durham		1	4	4	7	2	2	5	25
Cornwall		3	4	2	3	6	6	9	33
Essex		11	25	26	18	39	45	56	220
Gloucestershire		29	38	35	31	42	62	59	296
Hampshire		52	66	94	137	152	147	161	809
Herefordshire		9	7	8	8	4	8	11	55
Hertfordshire		26	21	19	31	31	28	41	197
Huntingdonshire		1	4	1	2	10	8	5	31
Kent		31	44	49	46	73	75	124	442
Lancashire		5	13	10	11	19	21	35	114
Leicestershire		4	2	5	9	6	9	11	46
Lincolnshire		6	8	7	13	16	17	11	78
Middlesex		148	179	203	232	100	84	140	1086
Norfolk		11	13	11	18	30	34	27	144
Northamptonshire		9	15	9	9	21	13	18	94
Northumberland		3	1		4	3		2	13
Nottinghamshire		2	2	5	7	7	12	7	42
Oxfordshire		3180	3040	3102	3016	3206	3428	3654	22626
Rutland				1	2	1		1	5
Shropshire		6	3	6	5	6	8	10	44
Somerset		28	29	38	31	32	63	56	277
Staffordshire		6	6	3	9	12	17	26	79
Suffolk		12	11	19	14	27	27	35	145
Surrey		61	72	81	83	111	93	126	627
Sussex		16	22	28	31	64	50	86	297
Warwickshire		22	6	15	21	19	27	30	140
Westmorland		1				3	5	2	11
Wiltshire		32	54	59	51	78	103	102	479
Worcestershire		5	6	14	12	13	25	19	94
Yorkshire		10	20	22	16	23	34	24	149
Berkshire		527	555	620	620	691	765	891	4669
London		48	55	56	56	251	289	360	1115
Channel Islands		1	3	2	3	3	5	6	23
Scotland	4	8	7	10	14	26	33	36	138
Ireland	23	24	20	15	20	19	18	26	165
Foreign Parts	3	18	34	30	28	44	38	71	266
Not known	76	52	20	34	19	21	37	18	277
Wales		9	13	13	22	18	25	37	137
Same county	3212								3212
Not same county	1241								1241
Isle of Wight		5	1	3	2	4	10	5	30
Isle of Man						1			1
England								2	2

Total	4559	4690	4712	5026	5038	5630	6121	6854	42630

In 1841 over 70% of persons were recorded as having been born in Oxfordshire, but by 1911 this had reduced to just 53.3% with a corresponding increase in the percentage from other counties. These figures are illustrated in the following table and graph for the eight counties with the highest percentages.

County, country, etc.	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911
Oxfordshire	70.4	67.8	64.5	61.7	59.8	56.9	56.0	53.3
Berkshire		11.2	11.7	12.3	12.3	12.2	12.4	12.9
Buckinghamshire		4.7	4.8	5.6	5.8	5.5	5.0	5.1
Middlesex		4.1	4.8	5.1	5.7	6.1	6.0	7.2
Hampshire		1.2	1.4	1.8	2.7	2.6	2.5	2.3
Surrey		1.3	1.5	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.5	1.8
Wiltshire		0.6	1.1	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.6	1.4
Kent		0.6	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.2	1.2	1.8
Other		8.5	9.3	9.9	10.2	12.3	13.8	14.2