Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Brixton is older than 89% of UK towns: a median age of 50.9
Just over one in ten residents give unpaid care; across England’s towns the figure is 8.7%. For Brixton, the census puts residents who describe themselves as White British at 97%. Fewer households in terraced houses than in 76% of UK towns: 14%. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 857, in 369 households.
Brixton: 29% of residents are 65 or over, above 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 here. As a yardstick, 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 89 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.
Brixton: 9.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, above 68% 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%.
In Brixton, a third of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 22% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, full-time students are common here: 4.9%, more than in just over half of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%.
In Brixton, 26% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 63% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Devon’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
At 2.3 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. For comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Here, 2.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Compared with other places, one-person households are common here: 30%, more than in 55% of UK towns.
Households without a car or van make up 8.6% in Brixton, less than in 89% 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
Across England’s towns, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment; in Brixton, 15%. Compared with other places, households in detached houses are common here: 34%, more than in 63% of UK towns. Typically, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Brixton ranks above 98% 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
4.4% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. Set beside that, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.8%) or in the rest of Europe (0.6%).
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 86% of UK towns: 56%
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: 97% of Brixton · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents with no religion (35%), Brixton is below 80% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Adults who have never married make up 23% in Brixton, less than in 98% 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
53% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 44% across England’s towns. To put it in context, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 32% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Brixton counts 32% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 18% have no qualification (18%).
2 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Brixton
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
- “Devon’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Devon (or England), summed the same way as Brixton’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 Brixton’s residents
What is the population of Brixton?
The 2021 Census counted 857 people in Brixton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brixton?
The median age was 50.9 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brixton?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 4.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brixton?
35% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.8% didn’t answer.
Is Brixton good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Brixton’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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