Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54: Uplyme is older than 95% of UK towns
Where 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns, Uplyme has 62%. There were 450 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 1,053 residents. Here, 65% of households live in a detached house. On households without a car or van, Uplyme sits lower than 89% of UK towns: 8.7%.
What the Census says about Uplyme’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Uplyme’s residents are under 54 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).
More residents aged 65 and over than 89% of UK towns: 29%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across Uplyme, 9.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24. 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
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Only 7.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Uplyme
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%.
5.2% of adults are full-time students (England’s towns: 7.9%). Typically, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Uplyme ranks below 83% of UK towns on one-person households: 26%
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 2.7%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Households with dependent children account for 25%. Typically, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
In Uplyme, 10% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 88% 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
6.2% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%.
Uplyme: 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.9%). For comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Uplyme has more residents born outside the UK than just over half of UK towns, at 6.4%.
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 94% in Uplyme, more than in 66% 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: 94% of Uplyme · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (3.9%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Bangladeshi (0.4%). 48% of residents describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 62% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Asked about religion, 42% answered none, against 37% across England’s towns.
Uplyme sits below 98% of UK towns for adults who have never married (22%)
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
Here 10% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%. Elsewhere, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 21 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 43% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 43% of adults in Uplyme, 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification, against 18%.
Nearby, 5 of 7 towns have older populations than Uplyme
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
- 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 Uplyme’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 Uplyme’s residents
What is the population of Uplyme?
The 2021 Census counted 1,053 people in Uplyme’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Uplyme?
The median age was 54 at the 2021 Census. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Uplyme?
94% 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 Uplyme?
42% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 7.9% didn’t answer.
Is Uplyme good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Uplyme’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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