By 1771 the community had recorded a population of 1012.
The village last recorded a population of about 600 people.
At that time the film records the population of the town and local farms as being 69.
The 2001 census recorded a population of 16,849 living in the town.
The census in the year 2000 recorded a population of 77,855.
As a community the 2001 census recorded a population of 3919.
The first census in 1903 recorded a total population of 17,525.
The town recorded a population of 3,553 in the 2006 national census.
However, the 1910 Census recorded a population of just 86 people.
In the 2002 census it recorded a population of 211.