Editing Amble (section)

== Demography ==
[[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis]] reported a township population of 247 in 1831.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |first=Samuel |last=Lewis |edition=4th |publisher=S. Lewis & Co. |year=1811 |page=47}}</ref> By the seventh edition of his ''Topographical Dictionary of England'', which was published in 1848, this figure had risen to 724.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Alvanley – Amble |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |year=1848 |pages=49–53 |edition=7th |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50754&strquery=amble |publisher=British History Online |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref> The population was reported as being 1,040 in 1851.<ref>{{cite book |title=History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland |url=https://archive.org/details/historytopograp00cogoog |author1=Whellan |author2=William |display-authors=etal |publisher=Whittaker and Company |year=1855 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historytopograp00cogoog/page/n707 712]}}</ref> The 1871 census recorded a population of 1,233, spread among 233 houses.<ref>{{cite book |title=Digest of the English Census of 1871 |orig-year=1873 |publisher=Elibron |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-4021-4660-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CCAmTUjgIfwC |page=143}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Population of Amble Urban District, 1901 – 1961{{efn|Amble Urban District comprised {{convert|1258|acre|ha}} during the period 1911–1951, and was {{convert|1|acre|ha}} less in 1961.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=University of Portsmouth and others |year=2009 |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_AREA_ACRES&u_id=10108925&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=Area (acres) |work=A Vision of Britain Through Time: Amble |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>}}
|-
|
! scope="col"| 1901
! scope="col"| 1911
! scope="col"| 1921
! scope="col"| 1931
! scope="col"| 1939
! scope="col"| 1951
! scope="col"| 1961
|-
! scope="row"|Male<ref name="gender">{{cite web |publisher=University of Portsmouth and others |year=2009 |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_GENDER&u_id=10108925&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=Gender |work=A Vision of Britain Through Time: Amble |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>
|
| 2,475
| 2,427
| 2,006
| 2,197
| 2,292
| 2,427
|-
! scope="row"|Female<ref name="gender"/>
|
| 2,406
| 2,424
| 2,199
| 2,483
| 2,390
| 2,473
|-
! scope="row"|Total<ref>{{cite web |publisher=University of Portsmouth and others |year=2009 |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_theme_page.jsp?u_id=10108925&c_id=10001043&data_theme=T_POP |title=Population |work=A Vision of Britain Through Time: Amble |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>
| 4,428
| 4,881
| 4,851
| 4,205
| 4,680
| 4,682
| 4,900
|}

D. J. Rowe notes that, in common with many Northumbrian towns, historically there was "endemic" overcrowding of the population in Amble. The number of houses that averaged over two people per room was 32.6 per cent in 1911. This figure, while not atypical for the region, was above average for the county and well above that for other regions of the country, such as London.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950: Regions and Communities |volume=1 |series=The Cambridge Social History of Britain 1750–1950 |editor-first=Francis Michael Longstreth |editor-last=Thompson |chapter=The North-East |first=D. J. |last=Rowe |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-521-43816-2 |pages=449–450}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Housing in Amble Urban District, 1911 – 1961
|-
|
! scope="col"| 1911
! scope="col"| 1921
! scope="col"| 1931
! scope="col"| 1951
! scope="col"| 1961
|-
! scope="row"|Households<ref>{{cite web |publisher=University of Portsmouth and others |year=2009 |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_HOUS&data_cube=N_HOUSEHOLDS&u_id=10108925&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=Total Households |work=A Vision of Britain Through Time: Amble |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>
| 1,084
| 1,098
| 1,123
| 1,420
| 1,601
|-
! scope="row"|Houses<ref>{{cite web |publisher=University of Portsmouth and others |year=2009 |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_HOUS&data_cube=N_HOUSES&u_id=10108925&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=Total Houses|work=A Vision of Britain Through Time: Amble |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>
|
| 1,054
| 1,051
| 1,412
| 1,600
|-
! scope="row"|Rooms<ref>{{cite web |publisher=University of Portsmouth and others |year=2009 |url= http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_HOUS&data_cube=N_ROOMS&u_id=10108925&c_id=10001043&add=Y |title=Total Rooms|work=A Vision of Britain Through Time: Amble |access-date=24 January 2013}}</ref>
|
| 3,558
| 3,758
| 5,170
| 6,485
|}