Photo: Strider52 · CC0Half of Stoke Gabriel is over 53.7, older than 95% of UK towns
Nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, against 22% in Stoke Gabriel. There were 611 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 1,340 residents. Locally, 2.8% of households live in a flat or apartment. At 23%, the share of households with dependent children is lower than in 84% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Stoke Gabriel’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Stoke Gabriel’s residents are under 53.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 32% 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).
Below 99% of UK towns: 6.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here nearly a third of residents are 65 or over, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. To put it in context, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
Stoke Gabriel sits below 89% of UK towns for full-time students (3.8%)
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%.
Stoke Gabriel sits close to the norm on residents who moved in within the year: 11%, about the same as across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 73% 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.
By its share of one-person households (28%), Stoke Gabriel is below 66% of UK towns. Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.3% of the total.
More detached houses than 96% of UK towns: 59% of households
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
Households without a car or van make up 9.5%, against 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 13%.
Residents whose main language is English make up 100% in Stoke Gabriel, 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.2%). On residents born outside the UK, Stoke Gabriel sits lower than nearly four fifths of UK towns: 3.9%. Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Stoke Gabriel: 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 89% 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: 96% of Stoke Gabriel · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 53% in Stoke Gabriel and 46% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.4%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Chinese (0.3%).
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 95% of UK towns, at 58%
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 32 residents. Few places have as many unpaid carers: 9.9% here, more than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. Elsewhere, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Among adults, 45% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
45% of Stoke Gabriel’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 11% have none (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 4 are older than Stoke Gabriel
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Stoke Gabriel’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 Stoke Gabriel’s residents
What is the population of Stoke Gabriel?
The 2021 Census counted 1,340 people in Stoke Gabriel’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stoke Gabriel?
The median age was 53.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stoke Gabriel?
96% 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 Stoke Gabriel?
41% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Stoke Gabriel good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stoke Gabriel’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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