Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Hartland is over 55
29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, against 18% in Hartland. Locally, 26% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Compared with other places, one-person households are common here: 33%, more than in three quarters of UK towns. There were 458 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 951 residents.
Fewer young people than 99% of UK towns: 6.6% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Here, just over a third of residents are 65 or over.
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.
Below 99% of UK towns: 2.6% 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%.
In Hartland, 23% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 25% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The census found that 7.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in the village. Across England’s towns, 7.9% of adults are full-time students.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 93% 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 figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 2.8% in Hartland and 4.3% across England’s towns.
Few flats: only 5% of households in Hartland live in one
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
Here 37% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. The share of households in flats across England’s towns is 23%. Households in terraced houses: 30% of the total. At 15%, the share of households without a car or van is lower than in 52% of UK towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 100% in Hartland, more than in 99% 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 Hartland, 5.8%. The usual figure: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in Africa (1.6%).
Above 80% of UK towns: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British
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 Hartland · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
In Hartland, 48% of residents describe themselves as Christian, beside 46% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White British come to 73%. On the census count, 44% of residents said they have no religion.
Hartland sits above 66% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (50%)
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
28 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Measured more widely, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. More unpaid carers than in 56% of UK towns: 9.6%.
27% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Hartland, 27% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 19% have no qualification at all (18%).
Hartland and its 4 nearest towns: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartland | 951 | — | 55 | 34% | 18% |
| Westward Ho! | 3,468 | 11.2 mi | 58 | 38% | 15% |
| Stratton | 1,928 | 11.5 mi | 40.7 | 20% | 34% |
| Bude | 7,347 | 11.7 mi | 50.5 | 30% | 22% |
| Bideford | 19,493 | 11.9 mi | 44.4 | 22% | 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 Hartland’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 Hartland’s residents
What is the population of Hartland?
The 2021 Census counted 951 people in Hartland’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hartland?
The median age was 55 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hartland?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 5.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hartland?
44% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Hartland good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hartland’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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