Census Town

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. ”

—- Central Statistics Office

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    —Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)