Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballinger Common ranks below 99% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 1.8%
By its share of one-person households (21%), Ballinger Common is below 97% of UK towns. Households in terraced houses account for 6.6%. Half of the village’s residents are over 51.4, older than in just over nine in ten UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 412 people lived here, in 163 households.
Ballinger Common: 23% of residents are 65 or over, above 60% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: just over one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Across Ballinger Common, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. Typically, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
9.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a share 65% of UK towns don’t reach
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%.
53% of Ballinger Common’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 10% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. The census found that 4.8% of adults are full-time students locally.
2.5 people per household, more than in 87% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Buckinghamshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Set against 29% across England’s towns, 28% of households have dependent children in Ballinger Common. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 4.3% in the village.
Fewer flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.6% of households
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
Here 68% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. Elsewhere, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
More residents born outside the UK than 79% of UK towns: 11%
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 25%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Residents whose main language is English make up 99%, against 90% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (4.6%) and in Africa (2.7%).
62% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 96% of UK towns
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: 89% of Ballinger Common · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
89% of residents describe themselves as White British; across England’s towns the figure is 73%. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 33%, fewer than in 88% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (7.1%), Mixed or multiple (2%) and Indian (0.5%).
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 63%
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
Where nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, Ballinger Common has 21%. Few places have so few unpaid carers: 8.4% here, fewer than in three quarters of UK towns. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 4 residents.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 50%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Ballinger Common, 8.1%, while 50% hold one at degree level (34%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Ballinger Common are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinger Common | 412 | — | 51.4 | 23% | 28% |
| South Heath | 1,278 | 0.9 mi | 48.6 | 22% | 33% |
| Hyde Heath | 1,048 | 2.3 mi | 49.6 | 30% | 32% |
| Little Kingshill | 1,471 | 2.3 mi | 47.2 | 20% | 38% |
| Prestwood and Great Missenden | 7,600 | 2.6 mi | 48.1 | 25% | 28% |
| Chesham | 23,691 | 3 mi | 41.1 | 18% | 32% |
| Great Kingshill | 1,669 | 3.8 mi | 52.1 | 28% | 25% |
| Wendover | 8,729 | 4.1 mi | 40.7 | 19% | 32% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Buckinghamshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Buckinghamshire (or England), summed the same way as Ballinger Common’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 Ballinger Common’s residents
What is the population of Ballinger Common?
The 2021 Census counted 412 people in Ballinger Common’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ballinger Common?
The median age was 51.4 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ballinger Common?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ballinger Common?
33% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Ballinger Common good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ballinger Common’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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