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:
“A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.”
—Mary Antin (1881–1949)