Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Chilsworthy is over 52.8, older than 94% of UK towns
Households in terraced houses: 3.5%, below 99% of UK towns. Chilsworthy is home to 432 residents in 174 households, by the 2021 Census. 71% of households live in a detached house. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 23% here, fewer than in 85% of UK towns.
Residents aged 65 and over: 27%, a higher share than 81% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 11% here and 12% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Below 97% of UK towns: 3.3% of adults are full-time students
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 27% of Chilsworthy’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 28%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. In Chilsworthy, 12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
25% of households are one person living alone, below 87% 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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 2.3% in Chilsworthy.
Below 97% of UK towns: 1.7% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 7.4% of households have no car or van in Chilsworthy. On average, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 95% 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
Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK; in Chilsworthy, 3.7%. As a yardstick, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.9%).
98% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 99% 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: 98% of Chilsworthy · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
On religion, 45% answered “no religion” and 50% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian are rarer here than in 51% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Chilsworthy ranks above 97% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 59%
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
6 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%. Fewer adults who have never married than in 95% of UK towns: 24%. Unpaid carers make up one in ten residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns.
26% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Chilsworthy, 26%, and 13% have none, against 18%.
No nearby town is as old as Chilsworthy
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chilsworthy | 432 | — | 52.8 | 27% | 23% |
| Holsworthy | 3,472 | 1.6 mi | 43.6 | 25% | 25% |
| Stratton | 1,928 | 6.2 mi | 40.7 | 20% | 34% |
| Bude | 7,347 | 7 mi | 50.5 | 30% | 22% |
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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 Chilsworthy’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 Chilsworthy’s residents
What is the population of Chilsworthy?
The 2021 Census counted 432 people in Chilsworthy’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Chilsworthy?
The median age was 52.8 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Chilsworthy?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Chilsworthy?
45% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Chilsworthy good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Chilsworthy’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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