The Chatfield UK Census Statistics 1881

Top UK Counties by Total Occurrences
County	Total	Frequency %	Index
Sussex	631	0.1281	26.5695
Kent	160	0.0161	3.3291
Staffordshire	152	0.0154	3.1967
Surrey	125	0.0088	1.8212
London	105	0.0036	0.7454
Hampshire	59	0.0099	2.0435
Warwickshire	40	0.0054	1.1260
Lancashire	35	0.0010	0.2094
Cheshire	22	0.0034	0.7075
Devon	16	0.0026	0.5457

Notes

County and town names are as used on the 1841-1911 census, and may not necessarily correlate with modern names and borders.

The Total Occurrences tables show which counties and towns contained the highest number of people with the surname CHATFIELD. This is obviously biased towards counties and towns that have more people in them overall, but it does show where the majority of people called CHATFIELD lived at the time of the 1881 and 1911 census.

The Frequency tables show which counties and towns had the highest proportion of people with the surname CHATFIELD. These are the places where you would be most likely to find someone called CHATFIELD, if you picked people at random from the population.

• The Total column shows the total number of people in that county or town with this surname. For example, there were 631 people called CHATFIELD in Sussex at the time of the 1881 census.

• The Frequency column shows the percentage of people in this county or town with this surname. For example, a frequency of 0.1281 in Sussex means that 0.1281% of the people in Sussex on census day were called CHATFIELD.

• The Index column shows the relative probability of finding someone called CHATFIELD in this county or town, compared with the probability of finding them anywhere in Britain as a whole. An index of 1 means that if you pick someone at random from this county or town, you have exactly the same probability of picking someone called CHATFIELD a if you picked at random from the whole of the UK. If the index is higher than 1, then you are more likely to find someone called CHATFIELD here than if you picked from the UK as a whole, and if it's lower then you are less likely. The actual figure shows the level of probability - for example, a figure of 2 would indicate that you are twice as likely to find someone called CHATFIELD here than in the UK as a whole, and 10 would make it ten times as likely. The value of 26.5695 in Sussex means that you are 26.5695 times as likely to find someone with the surname of CHATFIELD in Sussex than you would be in the whole of the UK.