Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 4.6% of households have no car or van
Where nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Brill has 37%. Adults who have never married account for 26%. One-person households are rarer here than in 90% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 590 people lived here, in 241 households.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 8.7% in Brill, less than in 82% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 45–49 than any other five-year age: 8.3% of residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. In Brill, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over. Half of the village’s residents are over 46.3, older than in 64% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Above 65% of UK towns: 9.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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 Brill, 49% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 12% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For Brill, the census puts full-time students at 4.8%. Across the comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
2.4 people per household, more than in 84% 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.
3.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home (England’s towns: 4.3%). The share of households with dependent children stands at 31%.
Households in flats: 2.5%, a lower share than 96% of UK towns
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
Against a figure of 21% across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Brill comes in at 26%. Households in flats make up 23% across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 69% of UK towns, at 98%
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
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 7.7% in Brill. The wider picture: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.7%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.2%).
43% said they have no religion, more than in 68% 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: 94% of Brill · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (3.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Indian (0.3%). The wider picture: 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as White British: 94% here, more than in 63% of UK towns. By contrast, in Brill, 49% of residents describe themselves as Christian, beside 46% across England’s towns.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 94% of UK towns, at 57%
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
9 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. The benchmark for married adults and civil partners across England’s towns: 44%. Lower than in 83% of UK towns: 8% of residents give unpaid care.
49% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Brill’s adults: 49% with a degree-level qualification and 11% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
2 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Brill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brill | 590 | — | 46.3 | 22% | 31% |
| Oakley | 1,129 | 1.5 mi | 46.2 | 23% | 30% |
| Upper Arncott | 1,659 | 3.2 mi | 36.4 | 11% | 33% |
| Long Crendon | 2,495 | 4 mi | 46.9 | 24% | 30% |
| Ambrosden | 2,736 | 4.6 mi | 33.6 | 7.2% | 45% |
| Waddesdon | 1,859 | 5.9 mi | 43.1 | 17% | 34% |
| Thame | 12,952 | 6.1 mi | 44 | 21% | 29% |
| Launton | 1,374 | 6.1 mi | 48.7 | 25% | 28% |
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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 Brill’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 Brill’s residents
What is the population of Brill?
The 2021 Census counted 590 people in Brill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brill?
The median age was 46.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brill?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 7.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brill?
43% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Brill good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Brill’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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