For the census of 1881, the papers were somewhat differently arranged, and we are enabled to get a nearer approximation, as well as a better notion of the increase that has taken place in the number of inhabitants in our neighbourhood.

Place             1871          1881
Acock’s Green      1,492         2,796
Aston Manor       33,948        53,844
Aston Parish     139,998       201,287
Aston Union      146,808       209,869
Balsall Heath     13,615        22,734
Birchfield         2,544         3,792
Castle Bromwich      689           723
Erdington          4,883         7,153
Handsworth        16,042        22,903
Harborne           5,105         6,433
King’s Heath       1,982         2,984
King’s Norton     21,845        34,178
King’s Norton
Union           ------        96,143
Knowle             1,371         1,514
Moseley            2,374         4,224
Northfield         4,609         7,190
Olton              -----           906
Perry Barr         1,683         2,314
Quinton            2,010         2,145
Saltley            -----         6,419
Selly Oak          2,854         5,089
Smethwick         17,158        25,076
Solihull           3,739         5,301
Ward End           -----           866
Water Orton        -----           396
Witton               182           265
Yardley            5,360         9,741

The most remarkable increase of population in any of these districts is in the case of Aston Manor, where in fifty years the inhabitants have increased from less than one thousand to considerably more than fifty thousand.  In 1831, there were 946:  in 1841, the number was 2,847; in 1851 it was 6,429; in 1861 it reached 16,337; in 1871 it had doubled to 33,948; in 1881 there were 53,844.  Included among the inhabitants of the borough in 1881 there were

Males.       Females.     Totals. 
Foreigners   1,288          859        2,147
Irish        3,488        3,584        7,072
Scotch         912          755        1,667
Welsh        1,575        1,742        3,317
Colonial       428          477          905
Born at sea     29           21           50

Of the English-born subjects of Her Majesty here 271,845 were Warwickshire lads and lasses, 26,625 came out of Staffordshire, 21,504 from Worcestershire, 10,158 from Gloucestershire, 7,941 from London, 5,622 from Shropshire, and 4,256 from Lancashire, all the other counties being more or less represented.  The following analysis of the occupations of the inhabitants of the borough is copied from the Daily Post, and is arranged under the groups adopted by the Registrar-General:—­

  Occupations of Persons.

                              Males.  Females.  Total. 
  Persons engaged in general
    or local government 1,145 79 1,224
  Army and navy 307 —­ 307
  Clerical profession and
    their subordinates 287 98 335
  Legal ditto 445