Church of St James · Photo: No Swan So Fine · CC BY-SA 4.0Residents aged 15 to 24: 7%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
Households without a car or van: 8.5%, below 89% of UK towns. Locally, 59% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. 1.8% of households live in a flat or apartment, a lower share than in 97% of UK towns. Bierton is home to 1,251 residents in 507 households, by the 2021 Census.
Older than 77% of UK towns: half of Bierton is over 48.6
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 9.6% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Across Bierton, 25% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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 smaller share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 2.4%
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%.
Set against 11% across England’s towns, 7.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Bierton. Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Bierton has 43% and 13%.
Bierton ranks below 95% of UK towns on one-person households: 22%
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.
3.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across England’s towns the figure is 4.3%. Across the comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Households here average 2.4 people each. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 25% here, fewer than in 73% of UK towns.
Bierton sits below 86% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (11%)
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 in detached houses is 38%, against 21% across England’s towns. For households in terraced houses, the comparison across England’s towns is 24%.
Above 67% of UK towns: 8.6% of residents were born outside the UK
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%; Bierton has 97%. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (4.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.7%).
Fewer residents with no religion than 82% of UK towns: 35%
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: 88% of Bierton · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 73% across England’s towns, 88% of residents describe themselves as White British here. Locally, 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian. On average, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Fewer adults who have never married than 92% of UK towns: 25%
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
8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 10% in Bierton. Across England’s towns, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 26 people.
Among adults, 37% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 37% of Bierton’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 13% have no qualification (18%).
Around Bierton, 2 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bierton | 1,251 | — | 48.6 | 25% | 25% |
| Broughton | 2,168 | 0.5 mi | 29.9 | 2.8% | 58% |
| Aylesbury | 87,966 | 1.6 mi | 36.4 | 12% | 35% |
| Stoke Mandeville | 2,855 | 2.9 mi | 46.8 | 24% | 31% |
| Weston Turville | 1,835 | 3 mi | 52.3 | 29% | 25% |
| Wingrave | 1,498 | 3.1 mi | 49 | 25% | 29% |
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 3.4 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 32% |
| Stone | 2,081 | 4 mi | 47.1 | 22% | 31% |
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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 Bierton’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 Bierton’s residents
What is the population of Bierton?
The 2021 Census counted 1,251 people in Bierton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bierton?
The median age was 48.6 at the 2021 Census. 7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bierton?
88% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 8.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bierton?
35% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.5% were Muslim and 8.6% didn’t answer.
Is Bierton good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bierton’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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