The 2009 census recorded only 2,383 people in an area of approximately 25,000 km.
The earthquake was one of the most powerful ever recorded and killed 139 people.
By 1747, the linen industry was well established, and Cox's personal census recorded 557 people.
By 2011 the authorities recorded 528 people in 216 homes.
Even that had ended by around 1940, when the census recorded just ten people in Florence.
The latest figures recorded 900,198 people, half the population of 50 years ago.
In 2004 the population of the civil parish was estimated to be 2,140, although the 2001 census recorded 1,831 people.
A census in 1723 recorded 1,110 people, including 610 slaves.
An 1814 census recorded 3,507 people on the island.
The 2001 census recorded 642 people living in the town.
