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Question:Every ten years in the UK it's done in the first year of the decade, starting with 1801 - 2001.
1801 10th March Little use for Genealogy
1811 27th May Little use for Genealogy
1821 28th May Little use for Genealogy
1831 30th May Little use for Genealogy
1939 29th Sept For issue of ID cards - except service personnel.
1841 6th June Available
1851 30th March Available
1861 7th April Available
1871 2nd April Available
1881 3rd April Available
1891 5th April Available
1901 31st March Available
1911 2nd April Not yet released
1921 19th June Not yet released
1931 26th April Destroyed by fire in WWII
1941 -- No census due to WWII
1951 8th April Not yet released
1961 23rd April Not yet released
1971 25th April Not yet released
1981 5th April Not yet released
1991 21st April Not yet released
2001 29th April Not yet released
hope this helps.



Hope this helps.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Every ten years in the UK it's done in the first year of the decade, starting with 1801 - 2001.
1801 10th March Little use for Genealogy
1811 27th May Little use for Genealogy
1821 28th May Little use for Genealogy
1831 30th May Little use for Genealogy
1939 29th Sept For issue of ID cards - except service personnel.
1841 6th June Available
1851 30th March Available
1861 7th April Available
1871 2nd April Available
1881 3rd April Available
1891 5th April Available
1901 31st March Available
1911 2nd April Not yet released
1921 19th June Not yet released
1931 26th April Destroyed by fire in WWII
1941 -- No census due to WWII
1951 8th April Not yet released
1961 23rd April Not yet released
1971 25th April Not yet released
1981 5th April Not yet released
1991 21st April Not yet released
2001 29th April Not yet released
hope this helps.



Hope this helps.

Every 10 years.

In the USA every 10 years.

every decade

depends which type but normally every 4 yrs

every ten years

USA -- every 10 years

If you are talking about a population census, forms are first delivered to every house or flats if in multiple accommodation. Sometimes one is given to every different family. People are given a deadline date for completion after which someone calls, checks that you have correctly completed all the details. Batches are then returned to the census supervise who does sample checks. The forms are then sent off to the government offices who extract the statistics.
If its a less formal census it may be done using a check sheet by someone in the street.
At the last census my wife was able to specify her country of birth as Ireland but I was not able to say that I was English.

In England and Wales every 10 years starting in 1801, but before 1841 they were little more than a head count, in 1841 they were put into house holds but no family relationships were given, with each census since a little bit more information was given, oh yes there is one exception to this that is 1941 no census was taken that year.

Good luck and good hunting

Some good answers benthebu being the best, only one thing to add. You cannot see the results of a census for a hundred years, so at the moment 2001 is the latest you can see.

If you are tracing your family tree, go back to the oldest relative your looking for by means of certificates, try and find out where they lived, and then you have to search church records.

I did it this way and I am now stuck on 1723.

As almost everyone said, every ten years, the next one will be in 2010

Every 10 Years

every 10 years xx