Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 51.4: Wothorpe is older than 91% of UK towns
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 69% of households live in a detached house in Wothorpe. Households without a car or van account for 5%. On residents with no religion, Wothorpe sits lower than 93% of UK towns: 30%. The village counted 314 residents and 124 households at the 2021 Census.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 14%, a higher share than 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 24% in Wothorpe and 18% across England’s towns. No age band is larger than 50–54: just over one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share 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.
More students than 96% of UK towns: 9.7% of adults in Wothorpe
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 55% of Wothorpe’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 6.3%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. On the census count, nearly one in ten 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.
Only 19% of households in Wothorpe are one person living alone
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.
Families with dependent children are 31% of households (England’s towns 29%), and 13% are someone 66 or over living alone (Cambridgeshire’s towns 12%). Each household has 2.5 people on average. The usual figure: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
In Wothorpe, 3.3% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 92% 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
Households in terraced houses: 14% here and 24% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Wothorpe: 13% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Here 96% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (6.4%) or in the Middle East and Asia (3.8%). Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 60%, a higher share than 94% 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: 87% of Wothorpe · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (6.7%), Indian (2.6%) and Pakistani (1.3%). On residents who describe themselves as White British, Wothorpe sits lower than 73% of UK towns: 87%. Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 46% across England’s towns.
Wothorpe ranks above 99% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 66%
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
Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%; Wothorpe has 6.2%. In Wothorpe, nearly a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 50%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 50% of Wothorpe’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification (18%). A levels top the qualifications of 18%, many of them students on the way to a degree.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Wothorpe
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wothorpe | 314 | — | 51.4 | 24% | 31% |
| Stamford | 20,745 | 1 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 25% |
| Easton on the Hill | 1,096 | 1.6 mi | 50.3 | 25% | 22% |
| Ryhall | 1,444 | 2.9 mi | 51.9 | 30% | 23% |
| Wittering | 2,678 | 2.9 mi | 32.5 | 5.6% | 40% |
| Ketton | 1,618 | 3.1 mi | 51.2 | 29% | 25% |
| Barnack | 1,007 | 3.1 mi | 45.7 | 22% | 29% |
| King's Cliffe | 1,581 | 5.5 mi | 42.7 | 20% | 34% |
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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.
- “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 Wothorpe’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 Wothorpe’s residents
What is the population of Wothorpe?
The 2021 Census counted 314 people in Wothorpe’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wothorpe?
The median age was 51.4 at the 2021 Census. 14% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wothorpe?
87% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 13% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wothorpe?
30% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.3% were Muslim and 3.5% didn’t answer.
Is Wothorpe good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wothorpe’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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