Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Strete is over 63.1
Married adults and civil partners make up 59%, against 44% across England’s towns. Strete counted 486 residents and 233 households at the 2021 Census. Here, 14% of households have dependent children. 8.6% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 92% of UK towns.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 47%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up 5.9% of residents, against 12% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 84 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.
Below 99% of UK towns: 3% of adults are full-time students
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Strete, 38% and 14%. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%. The census found that 9.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier locally.
2 people per household, fewer than in 98% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 1.7%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. In Strete, 34% of households are one person living alone.
67% of households live in a detached house, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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
By its share of households without a car or van (10%), Strete is below 82% of UK towns. Few places have so few households in flats: 3.5% here, fewer than in 91% of UK towns. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Strete sits above 86% of UK towns for 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
By its share of residents born outside the UK (5.9%), Strete is below 55% of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.6%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 95% in Strete, more than in 78% 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 Strete · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.9%), Indian (0.2%) and Chinese (0.2%). 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 75% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 73% across England’s towns. With residents with no religion at 40%, Strete is behind 58% of UK towns on that count.
18% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 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
For 12 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns. Higher than in 77% of UK towns: 10% of residents give unpaid care.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
35% of Strete’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 20% have none (18%).
Strete is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strete | 486 | — | 63.1 | 47% | 14% |
| Dartmouth | 5,260 | 3.2 mi | 54.3 | 32% | 17% |
| Chillington | 1,074 | 3.9 mi | 56.5 | 35% | 20% |
| Stoke Gabriel | 1,340 | 6.4 mi | 53.7 | 32% | 23% |
| Kingsbridge | 5,682 | 6.6 mi | 51.2 | 29% | 22% |
| Brixham | 17,839 | 7.3 mi | 55.6 | 34% | 18% |
| Loddiswell | 1,032 | 7.5 mi | 42.8 | 23% | 31% |
| Salcombe | 1,583 | 8.3 mi | 58.7 | 38% | 13% |
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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 Strete’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 Strete’s residents
What is the population of Strete?
The 2021 Census counted 486 people in Strete’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Strete?
The median age was 63.1 at the 2021 Census. 5.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 47% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Strete?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Strete?
40% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.5% didn’t answer.
Is Strete good for families?
14% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Strete’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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