| Census Summary-Birth County/Country | |||||||
| County | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | |
| Lancashire | 2,357 | 2,923 | 2,886 | 3,520 | 3,446 | 3,901 | |
| Yorkshire | 89 | 102 | 119 | 200 | 228 | 269 | |
| Cheshire | 107 | 103 | 125 | 134 | 161 | 146 | |
| Kent | 23 | 17 | 37 | 21 | 43 | 34 | |
| Warwickshire | 19 | 17 | 28 | 23 | 31 | 41 | |
| Middlesex | 23 | 22 | 24 | 31 | 41 | 5 | |
| Ireland | 22 | 27 | 25 | 37 | 18 | 16 | |
| Derbyshire | 8 | 11 | 19 | 38 | 23 | 24 | |
| Cumberland | 14 | 13 | 9 | 27 | 18 | 33 | |
| Staffordshire | 6 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 26 | 33 | |
| Surrey | 6 | 5 | 13 | 26 | 17 | 16 | |
| Durham | 4 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 19 | |
| Suffolk | 14 | 11 | 6 | 20 | 4 | 15 | |
| London | 53 | ||||||
| Sussex | 1 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 19 | |
| Westmorland | 4 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 10 | |
| Scotland | 2 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 | |
| Essex | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 13 | |
| Lincolnshire | 3 | 10 | 4 | 11 | 4 | ||
| Shropshire | 3 | 4 | 7 | 16 | |||
| Wales | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 3 | |
| Northumberland | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Norfolk | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Russia | 2 | 4 | 9 | 7 | |||
| Somerset | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | ||
| Devon | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Nottinghamshire | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |
| Hampshire | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | |||
| United States | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | ||
| Isle of Man | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Northamptonshire | 9 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||
| England | 1 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| Leicestershire | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
| Buckinghamshire | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| Cornwall | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Herefordshire | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wiltshire | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Oxfordshire | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Worcestershire | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Germany | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Gloucestershire | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Berkshire | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Belgium | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Leeds | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Bedfordshire | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| France | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Jamaica | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Brazil | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Cambridgeshire | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Canada | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Huntingdonshire | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| India | 1 | 3 | |||||
| West Indies | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| At Sea | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Caernarvonshire | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Dorset | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Flintshire | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Monmouthshire | 3 | ||||||
| Oswaldtwisle | 3 | ||||||
| Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Denbighshire | 2 | ||||||
| East India | 2 | ||||||
| East Indies | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Glamorgan | 2 | ||||||
| Hertfordshire | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Isle of Guernsey | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Isle of Wight | 2 | ||||||
| Pembrokeshire | 2 | ||||||
| Wolverhampton | 1 | 1 | |||||
| British Subject | 1 | ||||||
| Rutland | 1 | ||||||
| Abercarne | 1 | ||||||
| American Samoa | 1 | ||||||
| Australia | 1 | ||||||
| Breconshire | 1 | ||||||
| Bristol | 1 | ||||||
| Channel Islands | 1 | ||||||
| Collage Cloughfold | 1 | ||||||
| Cork | 1 | ||||||
| Down | 1 | ||||||
| Flinchor | 1 | ||||||
| Kiribati | 1 | ||||||
| Llanllwchaiarn | 1 | ||||||
| North Wales | 1 | ||||||
| Orkney | 1 | ||||||
| Petersborough | 1 | ||||||
| Plymouth | 1 | ||||||
| Salisbury | 1 | ||||||
| Samoa | 1 | ||||||
| Saxony | 1 | ||||||
| Scilly | 1 | ||||||
| South Wales | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 2,743 | 3,349 | 3,400 | 4,240 | 4,196 | 4,804 | |