Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.07.3% of households have no car or van, below 94% of UK towns
By its share of households in detached houses (42%), Whitchurch is above 80% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 961, in 415 households. On the census count, a quarter of households are one person living alone. With a median age of 48.7, Whitchurch is older than 78% of UK towns.
9% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 75% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With residents aged 65 and over at 24%, Whitchurch is ahead of 66% of UK towns on that count. The largest age band is 50–54: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Whitchurch sits below 99% of UK towns for full-time students (3%)
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%.
By class, 48% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 13% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). 8.6% of residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Below 93% of UK towns: 1.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
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.
A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Whitchurch has fewer households with dependent children than 71% of UK towns, at 25%. As a reference point, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
Only 5.5% of households live in a flat or apartment in Whitchurch
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
Nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, against 14% in Whitchurch. By way of comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Whitchurch ranks above 97% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 99%
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
5.8% of residents were born outside the UK, against 20% across Buckinghamshire’s towns and 18% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents whose main language is English across England’s towns: 90%. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.7%).
Whitchurch ranks above 91% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 58%
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 Whitchurch · Buckinghamshire’s towns 68% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 93%, against 73% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. On the census count, 36% of residents said they have no religion.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 90% of UK towns, at 56%
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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 24. Elsewhere, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 28%, fewer than in 79% of UK towns. At 8.5%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across England’s towns.
44% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Whitchurch, 44% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 12% have no qualification at all (18%).
Around Whitchurch, 2 of 7 towns have a higher median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Whitchurch’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 Whitchurch’s residents
What is the population of Whitchurch?
The 2021 Census counted 961 people in Whitchurch’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Whitchurch?
The median age was 48.7 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Whitchurch?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 68% across Buckinghamshire’s towns. 5.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Whitchurch?
36% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4% didn’t answer.
Is Whitchurch good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Whitchurch’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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