Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 58: Langton Matravers is older than 98% of UK towns
The share of unpaid carers is 13%, against 8.7% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Langton Matravers was home to 868 people in 380 households. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 96% of the total. On households in detached houses, Langton Matravers sits higher than 90% of UK towns: 51%.
37% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.1% here and 12% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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 make up 4% in Langton Matravers, less than in 85% 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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Langton Matravers has 34% and 21%. By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 8.7%.
Fewer family households than 96% of UK towns: 19% in Langton Matravers
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Dorset’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Nothing unusual on shared households of unrelated adults: 5%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Lower than in 61% of UK towns: 29% of households are one person living alone. The average household has 2.2 people.
Only 5.3% of households live in a flat or apartment in Langton Matravers
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 nearly a fifth of households live in a terraced house, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. Households in flats: 23% across England’s towns, for comparison. 11% of households have no car or van.
In Langton Matravers, 100% of residents have English as their main language, 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 (1.8%) and in Africa (1.3%). Lower than in 69% of UK towns: 4.6% of residents were born outside the UK. The share of residents whose main language is English across England’s towns is 90%.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 67% of UK towns, at 38%
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 Langton Matravers · Dorset’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 50%, against 46% across England’s towns. Against that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. The largest groups after White British are Other White (2.3%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and African (0.2%).
Langton Matravers ranks below 97% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 23%
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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 23. Langton Matravers has more married adults and civil partners than 86% of UK towns, at 54%. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
34% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 34% of its adults qualified to degree level, Langton Matravers compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 16% hold no qualification (18%).
Langton Matravers 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langton Matravers | 868 | — | 58 | 37% | 19% |
| Swanage | 9,115 | 1.5 mi | 56.4 | 35% | 18% |
| Wareham | 5,876 | 7.7 mi | 52.6 | 32% | 21% |
| Sandford | 2,004 | 7.9 mi | 52 | 29% | 26% |
| Poole | 141,009 | 8.8 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 26% |
| Upton | 8,401 | 8.9 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 28% |
| Lytchett Matravers | 3,455 | 10.8 mi | 48.8 | 28% | 27% |
| Bournemouth | 196,453 | 10.9 mi | 39.1 | 18% | 25% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Dorset’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Dorset (or England), summed the same way as Langton Matravers’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 Langton Matravers’s residents
What is the population of Langton Matravers?
The 2021 Census counted 868 people in Langton Matravers’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Langton Matravers?
The median age was 58 at the 2021 Census. 8.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 37% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Langton Matravers?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Dorset’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Langton Matravers?
38% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 9.8% didn’t answer.
Is Langton Matravers good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Langton Matravers’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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