Photo: David Gearing · CC BY-SA 2.0Newton St Cyres sits below 97% of UK towns for households in flats (1.7%)
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 92% of UK towns: 8%. Newton St Cyres is home to 672 residents in 291 households, by the 2021 Census. Here, 54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are common here: 48%, more than in 89% of UK towns.
Above 84% of UK towns: 28% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 47.6, Newton St Cyres is older than 72% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Budleigh Salterton, the oldest of Devon’s towns by this measure, it is 46%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
Newton St Cyres sits above 86% of UK towns for full-time students (6.2%)
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for just over two fifths of Newton St Cyres’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 20%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Here, 8.6% of 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.
One-person households make up 28% in Newton St Cyres, less than in 65% 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.
Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 2.4% in Newton St Cyres. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 52% of UK towns.
A smaller share of households without a car or van than 76% of UK towns: 11%
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 36% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. One household in every 9 has no car or van. On households in terraced houses, Newton St Cyres sits higher than 58% of UK towns: 22%.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 94% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.9%) or in Africa (1.3%). Across the comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Higher than in just over half of UK towns: 6.4% of residents were born outside the UK.
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 79% of UK towns don’t reach
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 St Cyres · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (3.1%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Chinese (0.2%). 45% of residents describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 79% of UK towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%.
Newton St Cyres ranks below 83% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 27%
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 16 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. On average, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Fewer unpaid carers than in 87% of UK towns: 7.9%.
Degree-level qualifications reach 45% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 45% of its adults qualified to degree level, Newton St Cyres compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 15% hold no qualification (18%). The highest qualification of 16% is A levels, often students still at university.
Of the 7 towns nearest Newton St Cyres, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton St Cyres | 672 | — | 47.6 | 28% | 27% |
| Crediton | 7,971 | 3.2 mi | 45.2 | 24% | 25% |
| Exeter | 126,181 | 4.8 mi | 35.1 | 16% | 24% |
| Silverton | 1,501 | 5.7 mi | 51.2 | 30% | 22% |
| West Clyst | 2,683 | 5.8 mi | 32 | 8.4% | 45% |
| Clyst Honiton | 1,030 | 6.5 mi | 31.2 | 7.6% | 37% |
| Broadclyst | 1,549 | 6.5 mi | 46.4 | 22% | 29% |
| Copplestone | 1,475 | 7.4 mi | 40 | 18% | 31% |
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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 Newton St Cyres’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 St Cyres’s residents
What is the population of Newton St Cyres?
The 2021 Census counted 672 people in Newton St Cyres’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Newton St Cyres?
The median age was 47.6 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Newton St Cyres?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Newton St Cyres?
48% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Newton St Cyres good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Newton St Cyres’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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