Population growth

Jersey's population has risen and fallen again many times over the centuries, culminating in the steady growth during the 20th and 21st centuries, interrupted only by the two World Wars. Estimates of population in past centuries are fairly rudimentary, consisting of counting the numbers of properties shown on maps and multiplying by a factor of the estimated number of people per property.

Even the early censuses were not particularly reliable, those taken in 1781 and 1815 amounting only to a muster of those men liable for Militia service. The first reliable census was taken in 1821, and this appears to have just been a count of inhabited properties and the people living in them, with no names recorded.

• A summary of influences on Jersey's population levels
• Jersey's population - a history by Mark Boleat

1331 onwards

• Early estimates of population

17th and 18th centuries

• Population of Jersey in the 17th and 18th centuries, a 1991 article from the Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise
• Immigration control in the 18th century Added 2016

19th century censuses

• Table of 1806 population
• Table of 1821 population

19th Century population explosion

• Surges in population
• The island changes
• French workers and the Jersey population
• A French view of emigration to Jersey

20th Century

• Table of census figures
• Parish totals 1991-2011
• States 1906 report on immigration, a full translation of the report
• A review of the 1906 report on immigration, a 2010 Annual Bulletin of La Société Jersiaise article on the 1906 report