TABLE SHOWING THE RELATIVE CRIMINALITY AND IGNORANCE OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE OCCUPATION OF THEIR INHABITANTS.

No. of Criminals in every 10,000 of Pop.No. of Persons who signed with Marks in every 100 married.
Agricultural Counties.
Lincoln1239
Rutland1349
Huntingdon1449
Cambridge1445
Essex1950
Sussex1534
Hereford2341
Agricultural and Sub-Manufacturing Counties.
Westmorland827
Norfolk1746
Suffolk1548
Hertford1754
Bedford1556
Buckingham2049
Northampton1443
Oxford1739
Berks1242
Hants1734
Wilts1848
Dorset1436
Somerset1941
Sub-Agricul. and Sub-Manufact. County.
Gloucester2635
Manufacturing Counties.
Lancaster1852
Yorkshire1144
Chester2246
Nottingham1142
Leicester1741
Warwick2138
Worcester2552
Mining Counties.
Durham736
Cornwall845
Manufacturing and Sub-Mining Counties.
Derby1039
Stafford1752
Agricultural and Sub-Mining Counties.
Salop1448
North Wales755
South Wales857
Sub-Agricultural and Sub-Mining Counties.
Northumberland828
Cumberland725
Monmouth1859
Metropolitan County.
Middlesex2418
Sub-Metropolitan Counties.
Surrey1621
Kent1632

For definition of Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Mining Counties, see Table of Density of Population, No. 37.

TABLE SHOWING THE RELATIVE DEGREES OF CRIMINALITY AND IGNORANCE IN THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

The Average taken for Ten Years.

The thin line represents Ignorance. The thick line represents Crime.