Photo: Philip Cornwall · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Dadford is under 17.8, younger than 99% of UK towns
Set against 29% across England’s towns, just over a third of households have dependent children in Dadford. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are scarce here: 4.8%, fewer than in 98% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 874 residents and 104 households here. Here, 3.8% of households have no car or van.
Only 6.2% of residents are 65 or over in Dadford
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 48% in Dadford and 12% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 81 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Dadford is a campus town: students living in halls or boarding houses count as residents.
Dadford: 54% of adults are full-time students, above 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%.
Leave the students aside and Dadford’s other adults differ from England’s: 53% are in managerial and professional jobs, against 36%. On the census count, just over a quarter of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 24% of households in Dadford are one person living alone
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.
Across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is 4.3%; Dadford has 1.9%. The wider picture: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. There are 2.5 people in the average household.
Dadford ranks above 86% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 47%
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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The benchmark for households in detached houses across England’s towns: 21%.
Dadford sits below 79% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (95%)
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
Born abroad and arrived since 2017: 45% of that group, against 21% across England’s towns. For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. In Dadford, 17% of residents were born outside the UK.
82% of residents describe themselves as White British, fewer than in 82% 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: 82% of Dadford · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (6.3%), Mixed or multiple (3.8%) and Chinese (3.7%). On average, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. 45% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a lower share than in 78% of UK towns. Meanwhile, residents with no religion make up 41%, against 37% across England’s towns.
A higher share of adults who have never married than 99% of UK towns, at 66%
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 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. On average, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Few places have so few unpaid carers: 4.4% here, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Add to that, across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%; Dadford has 26%.
Among adults, 27% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Dadford counts 27% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 12% have no qualification (18%). A levels top the qualifications of 12%, many of them students on the way to a degree.
Every neighbour of Dadford has an older 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dadford | 874 | — | 17.8 | 6.2% | 35% |
| Buckingham | 14,296 | 2.8 mi | 40.7 | 18% | 32% |
| Silverstone | 2,542 | 4 mi | 40.9 | 17% | 34% |
| Brackley | 16,180 | 5.6 mi | 39.8 | 16% | 31% |
| Deanshanger | 4,128 | 5.7 mi | 41.4 | 17% | 35% |
| Potterspury | 1,637 | 6.3 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 28% |
| Steeple Claydon | 2,530 | 6.7 mi | 44.6 | 20% | 30% |
| Old Stratford | 2,427 | 6.8 mi | 41.1 | 17% | 34% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Dadford’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 Dadford’s residents
What is the population of Dadford?
The 2021 Census counted 874 people in Dadford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dadford?
The median age was 17.8 at the 2021 Census. 48% of residents were 15 to 24 and 6.2% were 65 or over.
Is Dadford a student village?
Yes: 54% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 Census (310 people), against 7.9% across England’s towns.
How diverse is Dadford?
82% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 17% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dadford?
41% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 10% didn’t answer.
Is Dadford good for families?
35% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dadford’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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