Guernsey Parishes (original) (raw)

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Updates:

Since 2009, Guernsey has been publishing population bulletins based on administrative registers. It plans not to take any more censuses. According to the registers, Guernsey�s population as of 2012-03-21 was 63,085. The Policy and Research Unit is planning to develop methods for reporting population by parish, but has not yet done so.

On 2006-03-29, the ISO 3166-1 Maintenance Agency issued an update. Guernsey has a new country code assigned to it.

Country overview:

Short name GUERNSEY
ISO code GG
FIPS code GK
Language English (en), French (fr)
Time zone 0 ~
Capital Saint Peter Port

The Channel Islands, consisting of the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey, have been dependencies of the British crown since 1066. They constitute the only part of the Duchy of Normandy that still belongs to the crown. They were occupied by Germany from 1940 to 1945.

Other names of country:

  1. English: Bailiwick of Guernsey (formal)
  2. French: Bailliage m de Guernesey (formal); Guernesey
  3. German: Guernsey; Vogtei f Guernsey (formal)
  4. Italian: Guernsey
  5. Portuguese: Guernesey
  6. Russian: Гернси
  7. Spanish: Guernsey
  8. Turkish: Guernsey

Primary subdivisions:

Guernsey is divided into ten parishes and six dependencies.

Parish HASC Typ Population Area(km.�) Area(mi.�)
Alderney GG.AL d 2,294 8 3
Brecqhou GG.BQ d 1 0
Castel GG.CA p 8,975 10 4
Forest GG.FO p 1,549 4 2
Herm GG.HM d 95 1 1
Jethou GG.JT d 2 0 0
Lihou GG.LH d 0 0
Saint Andrew GG.AN p 2,409 5 2
Saint Martin GG.MA p 6,267 7 3
Saint Peter Port GG.PP p 16,488 7 3
Saint Pierre du Bois GG.PB p 2,188 6 2
Saint Sampson GG.SM p 8,592 6 2
Saint Saviour GG.SV p 2,696 6 2
Sark GG.SK d 600 5 2
Torteval GG.TV p 973 3 1
Vale GG.VA p 9,573 9 3
16 divisions 60,407 78 30
HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision code. Typ: d = dependency, p = parish Population: 2001-04-29 census (Sark is an estimate)

Territorial extent:

Guernsey includes the islands of Guernsey, Sark (Sercq in French), Alderney (Aurigny), Herm, Brecqhou, Jethou, and Lihou. The smaller islands are dependencies of Guernsey.

The UN LOCODE page for Guernsey lists locations in the country, some of them with their latitudes and longitudes, some with their ISO 3166-2 codes for their subdivisions. This information can be put together to approximate the territorial extent of subdivisions.

Change history:

Although there has been no change in the political geography of Guernsey, on 2006-03-29 it was given a new ISO country code. Before that time it had been lumped in with the United Kingdom. Its old HASC code was GB.GU; its ISO code, GSY.

Population history:

Parish 1901 1911 1921 1931 1951 1961 1971 1976 1981 1986 1991 1996-03-31 2001-04-29
Castel 2,802 3,086 2,968 3,210 3,763 4,781 6,317 7,309 7,727 8,260 9,068 8,922 8,975
Forest 843 910 970 1,117 1,133 1,061 1,460 1,383 1,288 1,293 1,386 1,423 1,549
Saint Andrew 1,552 1,751 1,704 1,800 1,850 1,964 2,232 2,295 2,230 2,281 2,357 2,342 2,409
Saint Martin 3,202 3,437 3,280 3,678 4,587 5,223 6,161 6,072 5,842 5,876 6,082 6,082 6,267
Saint Peter Port 18,264 18,018 16,215 16,720 16,849 15,804 16,303 16,279 15,587 16,085 16,648 16,194 16,488
Saint Pierre du Bois 1,577 1,609 1,567 1,653 1,638 1,698 1,829 1,934 2,018 2,057 2,242 2,151 2,188
Saint Sampson 5,614 5,952 5,192 5,333 5,675 5,916 6,534 6,802 6,947 7,475 8,045 8,540 8,592
Saint Saviour 1,062 1,075 1,086 1,230 1,531 1,792 2,116 2,321 2,432 2,404 2,419 2,469 2,696
Torteval 448 499 509 568 634 716 841 914 881 926 976 954 973
Vale 5,082 5,486 4,792 5,279 5,943 6,113 7,558 8,251 8,316 8,764 9,530 9,504 9,573
Alderney 2,054 1,328 1,472 1,686 2,086 2,130 2,297 2,147 2,294
Herm 25 33 32 53 36 90 96 69 37 59 113 97 95
Jethou 3 2 0 2 13 8 11 8 8 2 1 3 2
Total 42,528 41,858 38,315 40,643 43,652 45,166 51,458 53,637 53,313 55,482 58,867 58,681 59,807

Source: 2001 Guernsey and Alderney census reports from States of Guernsey website. Totals shown here include Guernsey, Herm, and Jethou for all years; Alderney where available; and exclude Brecqhou, Lihou, and Sark. 1901 Alderney population is an estimate from an old guidebook.