Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Halwill Junction is older than 94% of UK towns: a median age of 53.3
Where 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, Halwill Junction has 98%. The village counted 598 residents and 267 households at the 2021 Census. Across Halwill Junction, 21% of households have dependent children. Households without a car or van are rarer here than in 79% of UK towns.
Halwill Junction ranks above 92% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 30%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 60–64: 9.1% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Across Halwill Junction, 8.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
3.1% of adults are full-time students, below 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%.
In Halwill Junction, 23% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 6.9%.
3.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, more than in 90% 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.
The typical household size is 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. One-person households account for 29%.
Only 11% of households live in a terraced house in Halwill Junction
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
Against a figure of 21% across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Halwill Junction comes in at 44%. As a reference point, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns. The census found that 5.9% of households live in a flat or apartment here.
Halwill Junction ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 100%
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 (1.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%). On residents born outside the UK, Halwill Junction sits lower than 86% of UK towns: 3.3%. The usual figure: nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
59% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 93% 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 Halwill Junction · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, Halwill Junction has 34%. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison.
25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 94% 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
Some 30 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 53%, more than in 82% of UK towns. To put it in context, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers: 11% here and 8.7% across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 22% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
21% of Halwill Junction’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 22% have one at degree level (34%).
Halwill Junction is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halwill Junction | 598 | — | 53.3 | 30% | 21% |
| Holsworthy | 3,472 | 6.8 mi | 43.6 | 25% | 25% |
| Okehampton | 9,108 | 9.7 mi | 43.9 | 23% | 27% |
| Launceston | 8,431 | 11.8 mi | 43.9 | 22% | 26% |
| Withnoe | 1,820 | 11.9 mi | 36.6 | 14% | 36% |
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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 Halwill Junction’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 Halwill Junction’s residents
What is the population of Halwill Junction?
The 2021 Census counted 598 people in Halwill Junction’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Halwill Junction?
The median age was 53.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Halwill Junction?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Halwill Junction?
34% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Halwill Junction good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Halwill Junction’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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