Photo: Cnyborg · CC BY-SA 3.0Bow Brickhill sits below 99% of UK towns for households in flats (1.2%)
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 7.2%, against 12% across England’s towns. On households in terraced houses, Bow Brickhill sits lower than 94% of UK towns: 7.6%. At the 2021 Census Bow Brickhill was home to 634 people in 265 households. Census figures put adults who have never married at 25% here.
Residents aged 65 and over: 27%, a higher share than 80% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with 8.5% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. With a median age of 47.9, Bow Brickhill is older than 74% of UK towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Bow Brickhill, 2.8% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 99% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 46% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 16% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Residents who moved in within the year account for 9.4%. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bow Brickhill sits below 92% of UK towns for one-person households (23%)
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.
Households average 2.4 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%. In Bow Brickhill, 29% of households have dependent children.
Only 5.3% of households have no car or van in Bow Brickhill
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 figure for households in detached houses is 60% in Bow Brickhill and 21% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 24% of households have no car or van.
More residents born abroad than 63% of UK towns: 7.9% in Bow Brickhill
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.8%) and in EU countries (2.4%). Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 61% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
53% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 70% 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: 91% of Bow Brickhill · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (4.6%), Indian (1.3%) and Mixed or multiple (1.1%). Typically, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British; in Bow Brickhill, 91%.
Bow Brickhill sits above 83% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (54%)
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
20 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. To put it in context, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns: 9.4%.
Degree-level qualifications: 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 38% of its adults qualified to degree level, Bow Brickhill compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 15% hold no qualification (18%).
4 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Bow Brickhill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bow Brickhill | 634 | — | 47.9 | 27% | 29% |
| Woburn Sands | 4,315 | 1.7 mi | 43.8 | 22% | 29% |
| Aspley Guise | 2,114 | 2.1 mi | 52.4 | 28% | 23% |
| Bletchley | 45,018 | 2.5 mi | 37.2 | 16% | 34% |
| Stoke Hammond | 1,155 | 3.5 mi | 48.9 | 23% | 27% |
| Milton Keynes | 197,328 | 4 mi | 36.7 | 12% | 36% |
| Newton Longville | 1,877 | 4.1 mi | 52 | 29% | 25% |
| Heath and Reach | 1,451 | 4.1 mi | 50.9 | 27% | 26% |
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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 Bow Brickhill’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 Bow Brickhill’s residents
What is the population of Bow Brickhill?
The 2021 Census counted 634 people in Bow Brickhill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bow Brickhill?
The median age was 47.9 at the 2021 Census. 7.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bow Brickhill?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 7.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bow Brickhill?
41% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.1% didn’t answer.
Is Bow Brickhill good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bow Brickhill’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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