Editing Edinburgh (section)

===Historical===
{{Historical populations
|title=Historical population
|type=Edinburgh
|1801|82,560
|1811|102,987
|1821|138,235
|1831|161,909
|1841|166,450
|1851|193,929
|1901|303,638
|1911|320,318
|1921|420,264
|1931|439,010
|1951|466,761
|source      =<br /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Edinburgh ScoP through timePopulation Table View |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10105250/cube/TOT_POP |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311192720/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10105250/cube/TOT_POP |archive-date=11 March 2016 |access-date=11 March 2016 |website=www.visionofbritain.org.uk}}</ref>
}}
A census by the Edinburgh presbytery in 1592 recorded a population of 8,003 adults spread equally north and south of the High Street which runs along the spine of the ridge sloping down from the Castle.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lynch |first=Michael |title=The Oxford Companion to Scottish History |publisher=OUP Oxford |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-19-969305-4 |page=219}}</ref> In the 18th and 19th centuries, the population expanded rapidly, rising from 49,000 in 1751 to 136,000 in 1831, primarily due to migration from rural areas.<ref name="Edwards2005" />{{rp|9}} As the population grew, problems of overcrowding in the Old Town, particularly in the cramped [[tenement]]s that lined the present-day Royal Mile and the [[Cowgate]], were exacerbated.<ref name="Edwards2005" />{{rp|9}} Poor sanitary arrangements resulted in a high incidence of disease,<ref name="Edwards2005" />{{rp|9}} with outbreaks of [[cholera]] occurring in 1832, 1848, and 1866.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century |publisher=J & R Allan Ltd. |year=1967 |editor-last=Gilbert |editor-first=W M |location=Edinburgh |pages=95, 120, 140 |orig-year=1901}}</ref>

The construction of the New Town from 1767 onwards witnessed the migration of the professional and business classes from the difficult living conditions in the Old Town to the lower-density, higher quality surroundings taking shape on land to the north.
<ref name="etmoac46">{{Cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=Brian |title=Edinburgh: The Making of a Capital City |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7486-1868-2 |page=46}}</ref> Expansion southwards from the Old Town saw more tenements being built in the 19th century, giving rise to [[Victorian era|Victorian]] suburbs such as [[Dalry, Edinburgh|Dalry]], Newington, Marchmont and Bruntsfield.<ref name="etmoac46" />

Early 20th-century population growth coincided with lower-density suburban development. As the city expanded to the south and west, detached and semi-detached villas with large gardens replaced tenements as the predominant building style. Nonetheless, the 2001 census revealed that over 55% of Edinburgh's population were still living in tenements or blocks of flats, a figure in line with other Scottish cities, but much higher than other British cities, and even central London.<ref name="dwellings">{{Cite web |title=Edinburgh Comparisons – Dwellings |url=http://download.edinburgh.gov.uk/Census_2001_City_Comparisons/CCTable4Dwellings.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318032701/http://download.edinburgh.gov.uk/Census_2001_City_Comparisons/CCTable4Dwellings.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2009 |access-date=8 February 2009 |publisher=City of Edinburgh Council}}</ref>

From the early to mid 20th century, the growth in population, together with slum clearance in the Old Town and other areas, such as [[Dumbiedykes]], [[Leith]], and [[Fountainbridge]], led to the creation of new estates such as [[Stenhouse, Edinburgh|Stenhouse]] and [[Saughton]], [[Craigmillar]] and [[Niddrie, Edinburgh|Niddrie]], [[Pilton, Edinburgh|Pilton]] and [[Muirhouse]], [[Piershill]], and [[Sighthill, Edinburgh|Sighthill]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A BRIEF HISTORY OF EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND |url=http://www.localhistories.org/edinburgh.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117002911/http://localhistories.org/edinburgh.html |archive-date=17 January 2013 |access-date=9 February 2013 |publisher=localhistories.org}}</ref>