Photo: David Howard · CC BY 2.0Households with dependent children make up 38% in Dagnall, more than in 97% of UK towns
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 377 residents in Dagnall, living in 143 households. The share of households without a car or van stands at 5.6%. One-person households: 20% here and 30% across England’s towns.
Half of Dagnall is under 42.9, younger than 62% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 10–14: 8.5% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Locally, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year: 6.2%, a lower share than 95% 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 38% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 15% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). On average, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. In Dagnall, 7.2% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Dagnall households average 2.7 people, larger than in 97% 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.
Across England’s towns, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; in Dagnall, 2.8%.
Dagnall sits below 98% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (4.9%)
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
Compared with 21% across England’s towns, 46% of households live in a detached house here. Against that, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Below 54% of UK towns: 98% of residents have English as their main language
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 Middle East and Asia (2.1%) and in EU countries (1.9%). The usual figure: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. 6.4% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns.
Dagnall sits below 65% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (90%)
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: 90% of Dagnall · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Pakistani (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (2.1%) and Other White (1.9%). Fewer residents who describe themselves as Christian than in nearly two thirds of UK towns: 47%. As a yardstick, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Residents with no religion make up 42%, against 37% across England’s towns.
Dagnall sits above 80% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (53%)
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
13 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 29%, fewer than in nearly three quarters of UK towns. Unpaid carers make up 8.1%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 33%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Dagnall counts 33% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 18% have no qualification (18%). Many of the 15% whose highest qualification is A levels are students working towards a degree.
4 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Dagnall
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dagnall | 377 | — | 42.9 | 22% | 38% |
| Eaton Bray and Edlesborough | 4,201 | 2.6 mi | 49.4 | 27% | 25% |
| Kensworth | 1,517 | 2.7 mi | 46 | 21% | 29% |
| Totternhoe | 1,017 | 3.2 mi | 53.6 | 31% | 19% |
| Pitstone | 4,109 | 3.4 mi | 42.9 | 18% | 37% |
| Dunstable | 34,498 | 3.6 mi | 39 | 17% | 31% |
| Markyate | 3,174 | 4.2 mi | 41.6 | 16% | 32% |
| Cheddington | 1,770 | 4.5 mi | 44.6 | 20% | 32% |
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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 Dagnall’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 Dagnall’s residents
What is the population of Dagnall?
The 2021 Census counted 377 people in Dagnall’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dagnall?
The median age was 42.9 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dagnall?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dagnall?
42% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 2.7% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Dagnall good for families?
38% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dagnall’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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