Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 1.9% of households live in a flat or apartment in Shepreth
In Shepreth, 7.1% of households have no car or van, beside 24% across England’s towns. Here, 44% of residents said they have no religion. 53% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a higher share than in 81% of UK towns. The village counted 623 residents and 268 households at the 2021 Census.
Below 82% of UK towns: 8.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 45–49: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. On the census count, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over. With a median age of 46.3, Shepreth is older than 64% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 3.1%, a lower share than 98% 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%.
One in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier; across England’s towns the figure is 11%. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Shepreth ranks below 75% of UK towns on one-person households: 27%
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 3.7%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is in line with the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 30% of households are one person living alone. On average, 2.3 people share a household.
11% of households live in a terraced house, below 87% of UK towns
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
The figure for households in detached houses is 44% in Shepreth and 21% across England’s towns. To put it in context, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Shepreth: 8.5% of residents were born outside the UK, above 67% 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
99% of residents have English as their main language; across England’s towns the figure is 90%. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.7%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.6%).
A smaller share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 63% of UK towns: 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 Shepreth · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (5.2%), Mixed or multiple (2.3%) and Indian (0.8%). Typically, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. On residents who describe themselves as Christian, Shepreth sits lower than three fifths of UK towns: 48%.
In Shepreth, 29% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 73% of UK towns
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
14 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Adults who have never married: 39% across England’s towns, for comparison. At 9.2%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 50% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 50% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 14% hold no qualification (18%).
5 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Shepreth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shepreth | 623 | — | 46.3 | 22% | 27% |
| Barrington | 1,184 | 1.1 mi | 48.7 | 23% | 27% |
| Foxton | 1,275 | 1.2 mi | 47.1 | 24% | 29% |
| Meldreth | 1,823 | 1.6 mi | 43.7 | 21% | 32% |
| Melbourn | 4,907 | 2.1 mi | 45.2 | 24% | 27% |
| Fowlmere | 1,295 | 2.3 mi | 48.9 | 25% | 31% |
| Orwell | 1,147 | 2.4 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 26% |
| Haslingfield | 1,535 | 2.9 mi | 47 | 23% | 30% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Shepreth’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 Shepreth’s residents
What is the population of Shepreth?
The 2021 Census counted 623 people in Shepreth’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Shepreth?
The median age was 46.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Shepreth?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 8.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Shepreth?
44% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Shepreth good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Shepreth’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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