Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in flats make up 2% in Ide, less than in 97% of UK towns
Where 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Ide has 38%. Census day 2021: 586 residents and 250 households locally. Locally, 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. On residents with no religion, Ide sits higher than 94% of UK towns: 50%.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.5%, a lower share than 86% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). As a yardstick, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 6.7% in Ide, less than in 89% 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%.
By its share of full-time students (5.5%), Ide is above nearly three quarters of UK towns. Across the comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Ide ranks below 85% of UK towns on one-person households: 25%
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Each household has 2.3 people on average. Households with dependent children are more common here than in nearly three quarters of UK towns.
8.3% of households have no car or van, below 90% 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
Here just over a third of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. Every 12th household or so has no car or van.
Ide ranks above 74% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.1%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.7%). Across the comparison, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Fewer residents born outside the UK than in 58% of UK towns: 5.6%.
In Ide, 39% of residents describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 94% 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: 95% of Ide · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2.6%), Bangladeshi (0.9%) and Mixed or multiple (0.3%). Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. At 95%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is higher than in 77% of UK towns.
54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 84% 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
One in ten residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 16 residents.
Qualified to degree level: 49% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 49% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 11% hold no qualification (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Ide, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ide | 586 | — | 46.5 | 22% | 30% |
| Exeter | 126,181 | 2.5 mi | 35.1 | 16% | 24% |
| Exminster | 4,388 | 3.3 mi | 42.2 | 21% | 31% |
| Topsham | 4,193 | 4.2 mi | 55 | 37% | 17% |
| Clyst St Mary | 1,193 | 4.8 mi | 46.2 | 25% | 32% |
| Clyst Honiton | 1,030 | 5.2 mi | 31.2 | 7.6% | 37% |
| West Clyst | 2,683 | 5.2 mi | 32 | 8.4% | 45% |
| Exton | 1,287 | 6.1 mi | 26 | 16% | 21% |
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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 Ide’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 Ide’s residents
What is the population of Ide?
The 2021 Census counted 586 people in Ide’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ide?
The median age was 46.5 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ide?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 5.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ide?
50% said they had no religion and 39% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.2% were Muslim and 7.9% didn’t answer.
Is Ide good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ide’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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