Housing and Population
During the 10 years since 1861, there had been an increase in housing in Newton of 16 households and a 10% increase in population overall if the temporary workers in 1861 at the Railway Huts at West Houses are discounted.
The new housing was in Newton Green, and believed to be for the incomers to the work at the shallow mines, Tommy Newnies or Dimminsdale.
Employment
Our next chart shows the increase in employment in the coal mines between 1861 and 1871, as well as the changes of other employment over 30 years.
The change in numbers employed in Framework Knitting show it moving from a major to a minor employment within the parish, demonstrating in some cases a move from Farming to Framework Knitting, as well as the general decline of the cottage industry overall. The move from Farming to FWK in 1851 may only have been that the householder was employed in both activities, but chose to state his major earner of the two at the time.
Born in Derbyshire?
Of the population of 542, 279 were born in the parish, 142 elsewhere in Derbyshire, 79 in Nottinghamshire, 2 in Lincolnshire, 10 in Yorkshire, 8 in Leicestershire, 7 in Lancashire, 6 in Durham,and 1 each in Northumberland, Middlesex, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Northamptonshire, London and Berkshire with the birthplace of 2 unknown. The percentage born within the parish has fallen from 50% in 1851 to 45% in 1861, and of those within Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire from 96% to 85%.