How many people did Robert Owen think should live in a village of unity and cooperation?

Robert Owen proposed that his villages of "unity and cooperation" should consist of approximately 1,200 people living on 1,000 to 1,500 acres of land.1

He envisioned these communities as self-contained, largely agricultural units where work and the results of that labor would be shared collectively. While the initial model for these villages was based on the size of New Lanark, Owen later expanded his vision, suggesting that society could be reorganized into similar communities ranging from 500 to 3,000 people. He believed these groups could eventually be federatively united in larger circles to embrace a common global interest.1