page_title: Foxton, Leicestershire
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Foxton, Leicestershire / Population
caption_attribution_description: English: Total Population of Foxton Civil Parish, Leicestershire, as reported by the Census of Population from 1801 to 2011
context_page_description: Foxton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district, in the county of Leicestershire, England, to the north-west of Market Harborough. The village is on the Grand Union Canal and is a short walk to the site of the Foxton Locks and Foxton Inclined Plane. Swingbridge Street still has a working swing bridge that allows people and vehicles to pass over the canal, which can be opened to allow canal boats to pass. Foxton’s population is a mix of professionals and locals. There are two public houses in the village, a village hall, and a primary school. Foxton is serviced by Market Harborough train station which is approximately 3 miles away. London and Birmingham can each be reached by train in approximately 50 minutes.
context_section_description: Foxton’s population has been increasing continuously since around 1930. This is illustrated in the line graph to the left, showing the changing population in Foxton, from 1800 until 2011; when the population reached a high of 478.
  Population declined at the end of the 19th Century, this is thought to be because people migrated away from "village and agricultural life as new employment opportunities stemming from the industrial revolution lured people away from rural life".
  There were 90 dwellings in Foxton in 1890, although only 67 were occupied, as shown in the ‘Ratio of People per Dwelling 1880 – 2012’ table. "During the first two decades of the 20th century, the statistics suggest that despite an increasing population the house numbers continued to fall", as the number of dwellings, from 1890 to 1920, declined by 15 even though the population rose by 64. Some reasons for this contradiction are that "families were larger as infant mortality began to reduce". Also, small traditional and "insubstantial agricultural workers dwellings were replaced with larger cottages". Another reason is that "financial insecurity caused by World War I caused overcrowding in some existing dwellings".
caption: Total Population of Foxton Civil Parish, Leicestershire, as reported by the Census of Population from 1801 to 2011
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