Photo: Kim Fyson · CC BY-SA 2.0Above 91% of UK towns: 34% of households have dependent children
The share of households without a car or van is 8.4%, against 24% across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British are rarer here than in 83% of UK towns. Bottisham’s 782 households held 1,990 residents at the 2021 Census. 39% of households live in a detached house.
More residents aged 65 and over than 65% of UK towns: 24%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (England’s towns: 12%). With a median age of 45, Bottisham is older than 54% of UK towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Bottisham: 6.8% of adults are full-time students, above 90% 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 account for just over two fifths of Bottisham’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 18%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Locally, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
In Bottisham, 24% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 91% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cambridgeshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
At 2.5 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 3.7%. The wider picture: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Few flats: only 7.6% of households in Bottisham live in one
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
In Bottisham, 16% of households live in a terraced house, beside 24% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Bottisham: 14% of residents born outside the UK
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
Since 2017: 7.4% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns. At 94%, the share of residents whose main language is English is lower than in 82% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (5.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (4.7%).
Residents with no religion: 43%, a higher share than 61% 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 Bottisham · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (7.8%), Mixed or multiple (2.5%) and Indian (2.5%). The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 37% across England’s towns. Fewer residents who describe themselves as Christian than in two thirds of UK towns: 47%.
Above 84% of UK towns: 54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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
34 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. At 30%, the share of adults who have never married is lower than in 69% of UK towns. On average, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 8.9%, from 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
Bottisham’s adults: 44% with a degree-level qualification and 13% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns. Students still working towards a degree help explain why A levels are the highest qualification of 14%.
Of the 7 towns nearest Bottisham, 1 are older
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
- 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.
- “Cambridgeshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cambridgeshire (or England), summed the same way as Bottisham’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 Bottisham’s residents
What is the population of Bottisham?
The 2021 Census counted 1,990 people in Bottisham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bottisham?
The median age was 45 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bottisham?
82% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 14% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bottisham?
43% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.3% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Bottisham good for families?
34% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bottisham’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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