In India, a census town is one which does not have a notified municipal entity but still has a significant population which is considered rural. A census town is one which has a minimum population of 5000, has at least 75% of male working population engaged in non-agricultural pursuits and a density of population of at least 400 persons per km2.
In Ireland, a census town is;
| “ | a cluster of fifty or more occupied dwellings, not having a legally defined boundary, in which within a distance of 800 metres there is a nucleus of either thirty occupied houses on both sides of the road or twenty occupied houses on one side of the road. | ” |
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Famous quotes containing the word town:
“All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)