Church of St Peter and St Paul · Photo: BrianAnalogue · CC BY-SA 3.0Residents aged 15 to 24: 6.8%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
Unpaid carers make up 6% of residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Ermington counted 681 residents and 267 households at the 2021 Census. Here, 3.4% of households live in a flat or apartment. One-person households are rarer here than in 90% of UK towns.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 27% in Ermington, more than in 80% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Ermington is 47.7, higher than in 73% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. The largest age band is 60–64: 8% of residents, 1.4 times the share 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.
3.7% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 92% 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%.
Where 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, Ermington has 15%. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bigger households than 82% of UK towns: 2.4 people each on average
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.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 1.9%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. 28% of households have dependent children.
5.6% of households have no car or van, below 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 figure for households in detached houses is 51% in Ermington and 21% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, households without a car or van come to 24%. On the census count, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house.
8.4% born outside the UK, more than in 66% 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
Where nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Ermington has 98%. Across the comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (2.1%).
39% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 61% 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: 92% of Ermington · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.2%), Mixed or multiple (2.1%) and Arab (0.9%). Higher than in 56% of UK towns: 51% of residents describe themselves as Christian. The usual figure: 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. In Ermington, 92% of residents describe themselves as White British, beside 73% across England’s towns.
Ermington sits below 97% of UK towns for adults who have never married (23%)
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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 10. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. On married adults and civil partners, Ermington sits higher than 95% of UK towns: 58%.
48% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
48% of Ermington’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 11% have none (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 4 are older than Ermington
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ermington | 681 | — | 47.7 | 27% | 28% |
| Modbury | 1,687 | 1.5 mi | 50 | 26% | 23% |
| Ivybridge | 12,485 | 1.8 mi | 44.5 | 21% | 30% |
| Yealmpton | 2,007 | 4.2 mi | 51.4 | 32% | 27% |
| South Brent | 2,643 | 5.6 mi | 53.2 | 31% | 22% |
| Loddiswell | 1,032 | 5.7 mi | 42.8 | 23% | 31% |
| Sherford | 1,311 | 6.1 mi | 31 | 4.4% | 48% |
| Wembury | 1,828 | 7.6 mi | 56.1 | 37% | 20% |
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 Ermington’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 Ermington’s residents
What is the population of Ermington?
The 2021 Census counted 681 people in Ermington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ermington?
The median age was 47.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ermington?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 8.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ermington?
39% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.9% were Muslim and 7% didn’t answer.
Is Ermington good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ermington’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.