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Year: 1881  |  Province: Ontario

Brampton, Town—Ville, Ontario (1881 census)

Brampton, Town—Ville was a town in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,920. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.686°N, 79.765°W.

Population

In 1881, Brampton, Town—Ville had a population of 2,920: 1,444 male and 1,476 female residents. Population density was 654.4 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18611,627
18712,090
18812,920
18913,252
19012,748
19113,412
19214,527

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Brampton, Town—Ville shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 63 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO593
Number of families593
Number of females1,476
Number of males1,444
Number of married females491
Number of married males483
Number of married persons974
Number of widowed females111
Number of widowed males31
Number of widowed persons142
POP TOT2,920
Total population2,920
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18874
Number of single males under 18930
Number of single persons under 181,804
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction4
Number of inhabited houses591
Number of occupied houses591
Number of uninhabited houses35
Agriculture (26 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops340
Acres of potatoes39
Acres of wheat308
BAR BU2,855
Bushels of barley produced in the past year2,855
Bushels of corn produced in the past year33
Bushels of oats produced in the past year6,500
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year7,626
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year794
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year4,700
Bushels of rye produced in the past year16
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year715
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year1,201
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year4,047
CRN BU33
HAY AC340
HAY TONS424
OAT BU6,500
PEA AND BEN BU794
POT AC39
POT BU4,700
RYE BU16
Tons of hay produced in the past year424
WHT AC308
WHT SP BU715
WHT WTR BU4,047
Other recorded variables (18 variables)
VariableValue
C UNMD F874
C UNMD M930
C UNMD TOT1,804
D OCC591
FEMALE1,476
H CON4
H INHAB591
H UNINH35
MALE1,444
MD F491
MD M483
MD TOT974
NUMBER CD140
OTHR ROOT BU7,626
TUR BU1,201
WID F111
WID M31
WID TOT142

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Brampton, Town—Ville, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/brampton-town-ville-on140003-1881/.