Essex, Ontario

Essex was an Census Division in Ontario as recorded in the 1851–1921 Canadian census series. It comprised the constituent Census Subdivisions listed below for each year it appears in the published volumes. This CD is grounded to Wikidata Q953088.

Population trajectory across census years

Aggregate population summed from constituent Census Subdivisions in this Census Division each year. Where the published 1851–1921 census volumes report a CD-level total, the figures should match within rounding; for cities split into wards, the per-CSD sum may diverge from the published CD aggregate.

Constituent Census Subdivisions by year

1851 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 1,880)
• Anderdon (pop 1,199)
• Colchester wd (pop 1,870)
• Gosfield (pop 1,802)
• Maidstone wd (pop 1,167)
• Malden wd (pop 1,315)
• Mersea wd (pop 1,193)
• Rochester wd (pop 788)
• Sandwich, T-V (pop 4,928)
• Tilbury W-O (pop 675)

1861 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 2,360)
• Anderdon (pop 1,505)
• Colchester wd (pop 2,656)
• Golded (pop 2,355)
• Maidstone wd (pop 1,652)
• Malden wd (pop 1,563)
• Mersea wd (pop 2,143)
• Rochester wd (pop 1,349)
• Sandwich E (pop 3,133)
• Sandwich W-O (pop 1,816)
• Sandwich, T-V (pop 988)
• Tilbury W-O (pop 1,190)
• Winder, Town of (pop 2,501)

1871 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 1,936)
• Anderdon (pop 1,895)
• Colchester wd (pop 2,920)
• Gosfield (pop 2,994)
• Maidstone wd (pop 2,055)
• Malden wd (pop 1,566)
• Mersea wd (pop 3,248)
• Pelée wd (pop 150)
• Rochester wd (pop 2,152)
• Sandwich E (pop 3,748)
• Sandwich W-O (pop 2,228)
• Sandwich, T-V (pop 1,160)
• Tilbury W-O (pop 2,392)
• Windsor, C wd (pop 4,253)

1881 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 2,672)
• Anderdon (pop 2,406)
• Belle River, VL wd (pop 556)
• Colchester N (pop 2,090)
• Colchester S wd (pop 2,727)
• Gosfield (pop 3,494)
• Kingsville, T-V wd (pop 863)
• Leamington, T-V wd (pop 1,411)
• Maidstone wd (pop 3,260)
• Malden wd (pop 1,727)
• Mersea wd (pop 3,552)
• Pelee Island wd (pop 361)
• Rochester wd (pop 2,483)
• Sandwich E (pop 4,386)
• Sandwich W-O (pop 2,860)
• Sandwich, T-V (pop 1,143)
• Tilbury W-O (pop 4,410)
• Windsor, C wd (pop 6,561)

1921 census

• Amherstburg, T-V wd (pop 2,769)
• Anderdon (pop 1,967)
• Belle River, VL wd (pop 608)
• Colchester N (pop 1,729)
• Colchester S wd (pop 2,769)
• Essex, T-V wd (pop 1,588)
• Ford City, T-V wd (pop 5,870)
• Gosfield N (pop 2,131)
• Gosfield S (pop 2,427)
• Kingsville, T-V wd (pop 1,783)
• Leamington, T-V wd (pop 3,675)
• Maidstone wd (pop 2,432)
• Malden wd (pop 1,370)
• Mersea wd (pop 4,448)
• Ojibway, T-V (pop 101)
• Pelee Island wd (pop 793)
• Riverside, T-V wd (pop 1,155)
• Rochester wd (pop 2,082)
• Sandwich E (pop 1,713)
• Sandwich S (pop 1,548)
• Sandwich W-O (pop 4,598)
• Sandwich, T-V (pop 4,415)
• Tecumseh, T-V wd (pop 978)
• Tilbury (pt), T-V wd (pop 550)
• Tilbury N (pop 1,858)
• Tilbury W-O (pop 1,568)
• Walkerville, T-V wd (pop 7,059)
• Windsor, C wd (pop 38,591)

Lineage

Boundary changes connecting this Census Division to others in the 1851–1921 series, derived from spatial polygon overlap across census-year boundary files.

• Split into Essex North, Essex South in 1891.
• Re-formed from Essex North, Essex South in 1921.

Identifiers

• HGIS Canada CD ID: CD_ON_Essex
• Wikidata: Q953088
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_County,_Ontario
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_d%27Essex_(Ontario)

Sources

Census Division boundaries derived from the Canadian Peoples / TCP 1851–1921 Census Subdivision boundary files (NAME_CD_<year> attributes, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan). Constituent-CSD memberships use the P10_falls_within CIDOC-CRM relationships emitted by the spatial CIDOC builder. Wikidata grounding for Census Divisions performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.