Photo: Martyn Davies · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer households in terraced houses than 99% of UK towns: 1.1%
4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, against 7.5% in Fifield. At the 2021 Census, 256 people lived here, in 93 households. Here, 6.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24. The village has fewer adults who have never married than 92% of UK towns, at 25%.
Fifield sits above 85% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (28%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: 8.6% of residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Half of Fifield’s residents are over 48.6, older than in 77% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of full-time students than 96% of UK towns, at 3.3%
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%.
Where just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, Fifield has 9.4%. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 23% of households are one person living alone in Fifield
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Berkshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Families with dependent children are nearly a quarter of households (England’s towns 29%), and 14% are someone 66 or over living alone (Berkshire’s towns 11%). The average household has 2.6 people. The wider picture: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Few flats: only 1.1% of households in Fifield live in one
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
The share of households without a car or van trails just over three quarters of UK towns: 11%. On the census count, 36% of households live in a detached house. By way of comparison, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
In Fifield, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 93% of UK towns
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (5.5%) and in Africa (2%). Against that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. At 9.7%, the share of residents born outside the UK is higher than in 73% of UK towns.
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 96% of UK towns: 27%
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: 79% of Fifield · Berkshire’s towns 62% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 46% across England’s towns, 47% of residents describe themselves as Christian here. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 79% of the total. Typically, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
A smaller share of unpaid carers than 94% of UK towns: 7.3%
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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 2 people. Against that, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Few places have so few married adults and civil partners: 47% here, fewer than in 57% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of Fifield’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 22% have no qualification (18%).
Every neighbour of Fifield has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifield | 256 | — | 48.6 | 28% | 24% |
| Eton Wick | 2,121 | 2.5 mi | 45.1 | 19% | 28% |
| Windsor | 31,569 | 2.6 mi | 41.5 | 17% | 30% |
| Maidenhead | 67,391 | 3.1 mi | 40.8 | 17% | 33% |
| Eton | 2,461 | 3.7 mi | 18.6 | 6.7% | 18% |
| Winkfield Row | 1,756 | 3.9 mi | 45.7 | 14% | 35% |
| Newell Green | 1,871 | 4.3 mi | 36.4 | 13% | 34% |
| Slough | 166,868 | 4.4 mi | 35.3 | 10% | 43% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Berkshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Berkshire (or England), summed the same way as Fifield’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 Fifield’s residents
What is the population of Fifield?
The 2021 Census counted 256 people in Fifield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fifield?
The median age was 48.6 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fifield?
79% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 62% across Berkshire’s towns. 9.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fifield?
27% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 12% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Fifield good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fifield’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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