Photo: Andrew Abbott · CC BY-SA 2.0Buckland Monachorum ranks below 99% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 4.9%
Terraced houses are home to nearly half of households, against 24% across England’s towns. Residents with no religion account for 46%. 34% of households are one person living alone, more than in 80% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 515 people lived in Buckland Monachorum, in 226 households.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.8% in Buckland Monachorum, less than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 9.9% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: 21% of the total. The median age in Buckland Monachorum is 46.6, higher than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. Measured more widely, 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 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Buckland Monachorum, 5.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 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%.
By class, nearly two in five adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 21% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%. The census found that 4.7% of adults are full-time students in Buckland Monachorum.
Above 79% of UK towns: 3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
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.
Households with dependent children are about as common here as across England’s towns: 29%. For shared households of unrelated adults, the comparison across England’s towns is 4.3%. On average, 2.3 people share a household.
A smaller share of households in detached houses than 80% of UK towns: 17%
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 flats is 8.3% in Buckland Monachorum and 23% across England’s towns. Households in detached houses make up 21% across England’s towns.
Below 92% of UK towns: 2.9% of residents were 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
The largest groups were born in Africa (1%) and in EU countries (0.8%). On residents whose main language is English, Buckland Monachorum sits higher than 99% of UK towns: 100%. Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns.
98% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 98% of Buckland Monachorum · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Locally, 49% of residents describe themselves as Christian. To put it in context, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Below 85% of UK towns: 27% of adults have never married or formed 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
9.9% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 49% here, more than in 54% of UK towns. Adults who have never married: 39% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Degree-level qualifications: 39% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Buckland Monachorum’s adults: 39% with a degree-level qualification and 11% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Nearby, 5 of 7 towns have older populations than Buckland Monachorum
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckland Monachorum | 515 | — | 46.6 | 21% | 29% |
| Horrabridge | 1,875 | 1.7 mi | 51.5 | 28% | 24% |
| Yelverton | 1,856 | 1.9 mi | 57.8 | 39% | 18% |
| Bere Alston | 2,259 | 2.7 mi | 52.6 | 31% | 20% |
| Tavistock | 12,676 | 3.5 mi | 51.7 | 30% | 22% |
| Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel | 3,506 | 4.4 mi | 50.5 | 27% | 23% |
| Princetown | 1,442 | 7 mi | 42.7 | 17% | 25% |
| Plymouth | 266,970 | 7.2 mi | 39.6 | 19% | 26% |
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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 Buckland Monachorum’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 Buckland Monachorum’s residents
What is the population of Buckland Monachorum?
The 2021 Census counted 515 people in Buckland Monachorum’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Buckland Monachorum?
The median age was 46.6 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Buckland Monachorum?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Buckland Monachorum?
46% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.5% didn’t answer.
Is Buckland Monachorum good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Buckland Monachorum’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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