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Year: 1881  |  Province: Ontario  |  Wikidata: Q52998

Richmond Hill, Village, Ontario (1881 census)

Richmond Hill, Village was a village in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 867. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q52998. The administrative centroid was at approximately 43.877°N, 79.450°W.

Population

In 1881, Richmond Hill, Village had a population of 867: 434 male and 433 female residents. Population density was 864.3 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1881867
1891743
1901629
1911652
19211,055

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.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Richmond Hill, Village shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 61 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
FAM NO179
Number of families179
Number of females433
Number of males434
Number of married females135
Number of married males130
Number of married persons265
Number of widowed females33
Number of widowed males15
Number of widowed persons48
POP TOT867
Total population867
Age structure (3 variables)
VariableValue
Number of single females under 18265
Number of single males under 18289
Number of single persons under 18554
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
VariableValue
Number of houses under construction11
Number of inhabited houses176
Number of occupied houses176
Number of uninhabited houses11
Agriculture (24 variables)
VariableValue
Acres of hay crops233
Acres of potatoes33
Acres of wheat143
BAR BU2,660
Bushels of barley produced in the past year2,660
Bushels of corn produced in the past year20
Bushels of oats produced in the past year5,040
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year1,907
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year704
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year4,109
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year823
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year919
Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year646
CRN BU20
HAY AC233
HAY TONS358
OAT BU5,040
PEA AND BEN BU704
POT AC33
POT BU4,109
Tons of hay produced in the past year358
WHT AC143
WHT SP BU823
WHT WTR BU646
Other recorded variables (18 variables)
VariableValue
C UNMD F265
C UNMD M289
C UNMD TOT554
D OCC176
FEMALE433
H CON11
H INHAB176
H UNINH11
MALE434
MD F135
MD M130
MD TOT265
NUMBER CD136
OTHR ROOT BU1,907
TUR BU919
WID F33
WID M15
WID TOT48

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). "Richmond Hill, Village, Ontario (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/richmond-hill-village-on136001-1881/.