Practice question · Estimate
The 1851 census was the first in which more than half the population of England and Wales lived in towns. Estimate the urban percentage it recorded.
Estimate on a scale from 10 per cent urban (10) to 90 per cent urban (90).
Hints
- The census is remembered precisely for crossing a threshold.
- Just over half.
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50 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
About 50 per cent: just over, which is why the census is remembered as the moment a society became more urban than rural for the first time anywhere. The threshold matters less than the speed: the same country had been overwhelmingly rural within living memory of the people counted.
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