Photo: A J Paxton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 89% of UK towns: half of Newton Poppleford is over 51
2.4% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Few places have so few one-person households: 25% here, fewer than in 84% of UK towns. Newton Poppleford had 1,918 residents in 829 households at the 2021 Census. Across Newton Poppleford, 52% of households live in a detached house.
What the Census says about Newton Poppleford’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Newton Poppleford’s residents are under 51 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Newton Poppleford: 29% of residents are 65 or over, above 88% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: 8% of residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 8.8%.
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. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Full-time students make up 4.5% in Newton Poppleford, less than in 63% 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%.
Compared with 11% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier here. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Newton Poppleford sits below 86% of UK towns for households with dependent children (23%)
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.
At 2.3 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Add to that, 2.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a higher share than in 69% of UK towns. The benchmark for households with dependent children across England’s towns: 29%.
A lower share of households without a car or van than 88% of UK towns, at 8.9%
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
Nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, against 15% in Newton Poppleford. Every 11th household or so has no car or van.
Newton Poppleford: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 94% 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
Residents born outside the UK make up 3.9%, against 18% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%.
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 80% 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 Newton Poppleford · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.8%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Indian (0.3%). Measured more widely, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. In Newton Poppleford, just over half of residents describe themselves as Christian, beside 46% across England’s towns.
Newton Poppleford ranks below 82% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 28%
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
Where 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Newton Poppleford has 10%. For adults who have never married, the comparison across England’s towns is 39%. The share of married adults and civil partners stands at 52%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 31%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 31% of Newton Poppleford’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification (18%).
Median age: 3 of the 7 towns around Newton Poppleford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Poppleford | 1,918 | — | 51 | 29% | 23% |
| West Hill | 2,109 | 2.7 mi | 53.5 | 34% | 27% |
| Sidmouth | 13,258 | 2.7 mi | 60.4 | 43% | 16% |
| Ottery St Mary | 6,043 | 3.8 mi | 46.3 | 25% | 29% |
| Budleigh Salterton | 5,237 | 4.5 mi | 62 | 46% | 16% |
| Woodbury | 1,749 | 4.6 mi | 49.4 | 27% | 26% |
| Whimple | 1,120 | 5.3 mi | 50.7 | 28% | 24% |
| Cranbrook | 4,936 | 5.9 mi | 30.5 | 4.7% | 44% |
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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 Newton Poppleford’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 Newton Poppleford’s residents
What is the population of Newton Poppleford?
The 2021 Census counted 1,918 people in Newton Poppleford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Newton Poppleford?
The median age was 51 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Newton Poppleford?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Newton Poppleford?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Newton Poppleford good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Newton Poppleford’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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