Editing Chideock (section)

==Demography==
[[Dorset County Council]]'s 2013 estimate of the parish population is 550.<ref name=dcc/>

The population of the parish in the censuses between 1921 and 2001 is shown in the table below:

{| class="wikitable" style="width:800px;"
! colspan= "15" style="background:; color:" | <span style="margin-left: 80px; color: ">Census Population of Chideock Parish 1921—2001 <small>(except 1941)</small></span>
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:; color: height:15px;"| Census
! style="background:;"| 1921
! style="background:;"| 1931
! style="background:;"| 1951
! style="background:;"| 1961
! style="background:;"| 1971
! style="background:;"| 1981
! style="background:;"| 1991
! style="background:;"| 2001
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:; color: height:15px;"|Population
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 548
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 542
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 610
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 559
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 560
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 650
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 690
| style="background:#F2F2F2;"| 600
|- style="text-align:center;"
| colspan="15" style="background:#F2F2F2; color: text-align:center;"| <small>Source:Dorset County Council<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/345038|title=Parishes (A-L), 1921-2001- Census Years|publisher=[[Dorset County Council]]|access-date=14 March 2014|date=17 March 2010}}</ref></small>
|}

Results of the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] have been published for the combined populations of Chideock parish and the small neighbouring parish of [[Stanton St Gabriel]]; the combined population was 686.<ref name=ONS>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121901&c=Chideock&d=16&e=62&g=6418406&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1390387532223&enc=1|publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]]|access-date=22 January 2014|title=Area: Chideock (Parish). Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics|archive-date=3 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203101249/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121901&c=Chideock&d=16&e=62&g=6418406&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1390387532223&enc=1|url-status=dead}}</ref>