Photo: Nigel Cox · CC BY-SA 2.0Residents aged 65 and over: 31%, a higher share than 93% of UK towns
Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership; in Halton, 64%. At the 2021 Census, 276 people lived here, in 129 households. Locally, 8% of households have no car or van. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 22% here, fewer than in 87% of UK towns.
Halton is older than 79% of UK towns: a median age of 48.9
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 45–49: 11% of residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Locally, 9.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
6.4% of adults are full-time students, a share 88% of UK towns don’t reach
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%.
Nearly half of Halton’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Across Halton, 12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
One-person households make up 36% in Halton, more than in 90% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. A household here holds 2.3 people on average.
Halton sits above 83% of UK towns for households in flats (20%)
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
43% of households live in a detached house (England’s towns: 21%). Across England’s towns, households in flats come to 23%. For Halton, the census puts households in terraced houses at 14%.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Halton, more than in 94% of UK towns
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 (3.6%) and in EU countries (2.5%). Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language. Nearly one in ten residents were born outside the UK, more than in 68% of UK towns.
58% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 90% 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: 93% of Halton · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, Halton has 93%. Residents with no religion account for 35%. Set beside that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 99% of UK towns: 21%
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
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 7.9%, from the figure across England’s towns. For adults who have never married, the comparison across England’s towns is 39%. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 3 people.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 46% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Halton, 46% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 7% have no qualification at all (18%). The highest qualification of 14% is A levels, often students still at university.
Nearby, 1 of 7 towns have older populations than Halton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halton | 276 | — | 48.9 | 31% | 22% |
| Wendover | 8,729 | 1 mi | 40.7 | 19% | 32% |
| Weston Turville | 1,835 | 1.1 mi | 52.3 | 29% | 25% |
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 1.4 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 32% |
| Stoke Mandeville | 2,855 | 2.3 mi | 46.8 | 24% | 31% |
| Tring | 11,961 | 3.3 mi | 44 | 20% | 30% |
| Broughton | 2,168 | 3.4 mi | 29.9 | 2.8% | 58% |
| Bierton | 1,251 | 3.9 mi | 48.6 | 25% | 25% |
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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 Halton’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 Halton’s residents
What is the population of Halton?
The 2021 Census counted 276 people in Halton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Halton?
The median age was 48.9 at the 2021 Census. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Halton?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 8.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Halton?
35% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 2.5% didn’t answer.
Is Halton good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Halton’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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