Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 87% of UK towns: 9% of households have no car or van
30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, against 25% in Halberton. More residents with no religion than in 88% of UK towns: 48%. The village had 893 residents in 369 households at the 2021 Census. Married adults and civil partners account for 51%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 12%, a higher share than 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 45.6, Halberton is older than 58% of UK towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 21%. More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 9% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Halberton, 6.9% of adults are full-time students, more than in 91% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Halberton, 35% and 23%. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%. Locally, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bigger households than 76% 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.
Households with dependent children make up 29%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are scarce here: 2.2%, fewer than in 60% of UK towns.
Above 72% of UK towns: 38% of households live in a detached house
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
With households in flats at 7.9%, Halberton is behind two thirds of UK towns on that count. Households in terraced houses are rarer here than in 53% of UK towns. The benchmark for households in detached houses across England’s towns: 21%.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 78% of UK towns, at 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (3.3%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.9%). Set beside that, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. 5.1% of residents were born outside the UK, a lower share than in 63% of UK towns.
Halberton ranks below 84% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 43%
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: 95% of Halberton · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. The largest groups after White British are Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (2%) and Indian (0.2%).
Only 31% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Halberton
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
The share of unpaid carers tops nearly two thirds of UK towns: 10%. For adults who have never married, the comparison across England’s towns is 39%. Some 23 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
Among adults, 35% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of adults in Halberton (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 13% (England’s towns: 18%). Students still working towards a degree help explain why A levels are the highest qualification of 19%.
Halberton and its 7 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halberton | 893 | — | 45.6 | 21% | 29% |
| Sampford Peverell | 1,375 | 2 mi | 49.7 | 28% | 27% |
| Willand | 3,477 | 2.3 mi | 46.1 | 23% | 26% |
| Tiverton | 19,710 | 2.7 mi | 42.5 | 22% | 26% |
| Cullompton | 8,895 | 3.6 mi | 41.4 | 19% | 28% |
| Uffculme | 2,041 | 3.8 mi | 46.2 | 25% | 28% |
| Bradninch | 1,827 | 5.5 mi | 45.2 | 22% | 32% |
| Bampton | 1,294 | 6.7 mi | 58.1 | 39% | 18% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Halberton’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 Halberton’s residents
What is the population of Halberton?
The 2021 Census counted 893 people in Halberton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Halberton?
The median age was 45.6 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Halberton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 5.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Halberton?
48% said they had no religion and 43% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is Halberton good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Halberton’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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