Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Stokenham is over 63.1
Nearly a fifth of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; across England’s towns the figure is 39%. Meanwhile, at 97%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is higher than in 97% of UK towns. Stokenham is home to 368 residents in 166 households, by the 2021 Census. Households in detached houses account for 78%.
Residents aged 65 and over: 47%, a higher share than 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: 13% of residents, 2.8 times the share across England’s towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Across Stokenham, 7.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
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: 3.4%, a lower share than 96% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Stokenham, 41% and 15%. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. For Stokenham, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 7.3%.
In Stokenham, 16% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 99% 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.
One-person households: 25%, below 87% of UK towns. 3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a higher share than in 76% of UK towns. As a reference point, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Households here average 2.2 people each.
2.4% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 96% 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
Nearly one in ten households have no car or van (England’s towns: 24%). Locally, just over one in ten households live in a terraced house. On average, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK: 1.9%, a lower share than 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
Where 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Stokenham has 100%. Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%) and in EU countries (0.3%).
Stokenham ranks above 85% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 56%
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: 97% of Stokenham · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents with no religion is 36% in Stokenham and 37% across England’s towns. Typically, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners: 66%, a higher share than 99% 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
10 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. The benchmark for married adults and civil partners across England’s towns: 44%. Few places have as many unpaid carers: 13% here, more than in 99% of UK towns.
41% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
41% of Stokenham’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 11% have none (18%).
No nearby town is as old as Stokenham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stokenham | 368 | — | 63.1 | 47% | 16% |
| Chillington | 1,074 | 0.7 mi | 56.5 | 35% | 20% |
| Kingsbridge | 5,682 | 4.4 mi | 51.2 | 29% | 22% |
| Salcombe | 1,583 | 5.1 mi | 58.7 | 38% | 13% |
| Loddiswell | 1,032 | 6.4 mi | 42.8 | 23% | 31% |
| Dartmouth | 5,260 | 6.5 mi | 54.3 | 32% | 17% |
| Stoke Gabriel | 1,340 | 9.4 mi | 53.7 | 32% | 23% |
| Modbury | 1,687 | 10.6 mi | 50 | 26% | 23% |
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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 Stokenham’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 Stokenham’s residents
What is the population of Stokenham?
The 2021 Census counted 368 people in Stokenham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stokenham?
The median age was 63.1 at the 2021 Census. 7.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 47% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stokenham?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 1.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stokenham?
36% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Stokenham good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stokenham’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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