Church House · Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 59.1: Poughill is older than 99% of UK towns
Households without a car or van: 5.6% here and 24% across England’s towns. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 98% of UK towns. Poughill is home to 369 residents in 141 households, by the 2021 Census. Census figures put households in detached houses at 70% here.
43% of residents are 65 or over, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Against a figure of 12% across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Poughill comes in at 7.3%. Typically, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
Full-time students: 3.4%, a lower share than 96% 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%.
Here 13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Fewer families than 93% of UK towns: 21% of households have children
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cornwall’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Compared with 30% across England’s towns, 24% of households are one person living alone here. At 4.3%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is higher than in 94% of UK towns. The usual figure: 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Households average 2.2 people.
In Poughill, 4.1% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 98% 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 share of households in flats is 3.5%, against 23% across England’s towns. The benchmark for households in terraced houses across England’s towns: 24%.
4.6% of residents were born outside the UK, below 69% 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
98% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Middle East and Asia (3.3%) and in Africa (0.8%). On average, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Poughill sits above 90% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (96%)
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: 96% of Poughill · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, Poughill has 38%. Locally, 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian. Measured more widely, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners make up 56% in Poughill, more than in 92% 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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 10 residents. 8.9% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 62% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 28% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
28% of Poughill’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have none (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Poughill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poughill | 369 | — | 59.1 | 43% | 21% |
| Bude | 7,347 | 1.2 mi | 50.5 | 30% | 22% |
| Stratton | 1,928 | 1.2 mi | 40.7 | 20% | 34% |
| Holsworthy | 3,472 | 7.9 mi | 43.6 | 25% | 25% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Cornwall’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cornwall (or England), summed the same way as Poughill’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 Poughill’s residents
What is the population of Poughill?
The 2021 Census counted 369 people in Poughill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Poughill?
The median age was 59.1 at the 2021 Census. 7.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 43% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Poughill?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Poughill?
38% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.3% didn’t answer.
Is Poughill good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Poughill’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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