Photo: Richard Schmidt · CC BY-SA 2.0Brogborough sits above 95% of UK towns for households with dependent children (36%)
Where 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, Brogborough has 0.7%. Locally, 4.9% of households have no car or van. 6.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 99% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 349 people lived in the village, in 144 households.
Half of Brogborough is under 38.2, younger than 88% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here 16% of residents are 65 or over, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. In Caddington, the oldest of Bedfordshire’s towns by this measure, it is 28%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Brogborough, 3.4% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 96% of UK towns
What adults did at the 2021 Census (the ONS’s NS-SEC classes), and where residents lived a year earlier.
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
Address a year before the Census
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
In Brogborough, 30% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 6.7% of the total. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
A smaller share of one-person households than 86% of UK towns: 25%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Bedfordshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
In Brogborough the average household is 2.4 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison.
A larger share of households in terraced houses than 97% of UK towns: 46%
Accommodation type and cars or vans per household, Census 2021. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 7.6% of households live in a detached house in Brogborough. For Brogborough, the census puts households in flats at 2.8%. The usual figure: nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
More residents born abroad than 66% of UK towns: 8.4% in Brogborough
Country of birth, year of arrival and main language, Census 2021.
Born outside the UK, by region · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Residents whose main language is English: 97% here and 90% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in the Middle East and Asia (2.9%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2%).
Brogborough ranks above 98% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 55%
How residents described themselves at the 2021 Census. Lines join the lowest and highest of the three figures.
Ethnic groups other than White British · all residents
White British, not charted: 84% of Brogborough · Bedfordshire’s towns 61% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 38%, against 46% across England’s towns. Against that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Across Brogborough, 84% of residents describe themselves as White British.
34% of adults have never married, more than in 61% of UK towns
Legal partnership status (residents 16 and over) and unpaid care (residents 5 and over), Census 2021.
Partnership status · residents 16 and over
Unpaid care given · share of residents 5 and over
Against a figure of 44% across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners in Brogborough comes in at 47%. The benchmark for adults who have never married across England’s towns: 39%. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 6 residents.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 23% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 23% of adults in Brogborough, 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification, against 18%.
4 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Brogborough
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brogborough | 349 | — | 38.2 | 16% | 36% |
| Lidlington | 1,300 | 1.6 mi | 42.1 | 16% | 37% |
| Aspley Guise | 2,114 | 2.4 mi | 52.4 | 28% | 23% |
| Cranfield | 7,053 | 2.6 mi | 33.1 | 13% | 34% |
| Woburn Sands | 4,315 | 2.7 mi | 43.8 | 22% | 29% |
| Marston Moretaine | 6,350 | 2.9 mi | 35.5 | 12% | 41% |
| Ampthill | 8,825 | 4.3 mi | 43 | 18% | 33% |
| Stewartby | 2,546 | 4.6 mi | 31.2 | 8.6% | 44% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Bedfordshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Bedfordshire (or England), summed the same way as Brogborough’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- Small counts are blurred. The ONS adds small random changes to Census counts to protect privacy, so the same total differs a little between tables, and the shares of a small town can move by a point or two.
Questions about Brogborough’s residents
What is the population of Brogborough?
The 2021 Census counted 349 people in Brogborough’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brogborough?
The median age was 38.2 at the 2021 Census. 6.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 16% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brogborough?
84% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 61% across Bedfordshire’s towns. 8.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brogborough?
55% said they had no religion and 38% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.9% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Brogborough good for families?
36% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Brogborough’s schools page.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area (TS002, TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS008, TS015, TS017, TS019, TS021, TS029, TS030, TS039, TS044, TS045, TS062, TS067). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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