Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0A higher share of households in detached houses than 95% of UK towns, at 58%
By its share of residents who describe themselves as White British (96%), Lytchett Matravers is above 89% of UK towns. The census found that 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership locally. 28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 84% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 3,455 people lived here, in 1,456 households.
Older than 79% of UK towns: half of Lytchett Matravers is over 48.8
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
70–74 is the most common age band: 7.6% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 9% in Lytchett Matravers.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Lytchett Matravers, 48.8. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 69% of UK towns, at 7.8%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in just over two in five adults here, routine and semi-routine work 19% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). On average, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. In Lytchett Matravers, 4.5% of adults are full-time students.
Below 87% of UK towns: 25% of households are one person living alone
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.
2.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Each household has 2.4 people on average.
In Lytchett Matravers, 10% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 89% 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
Here 9.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, where the figure across England’s towns is 23%. Compared with other places, households without a car or van are scarce here: 8.6%, fewer than in 89% of UK towns. As a reference point, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 90% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The largest groups were born in EU countries (2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%). At 4.8%, the share of residents born outside the UK is lower than in 67% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, just over a fifth of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later; here, 13%.
51% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 61% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Lytchett Matravers · Dorset’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (2.4%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Pakistani (0.2%). Across the comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Just over two in five residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns.
Lytchett Matravers sits above 93% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (57%)
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
73 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. The wider picture: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of adults in Lytchett Matravers (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 15% (England’s towns: 18%).
250th highest median age among 749 UK towns of 2,500 to 5,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 18.9 in Bailrigg to 64.6 in Milford on Sea. Nearest to Lytchett Matravers in age: Claydon (48.8), Great Totham (48.8), Eccleston (48.9) and Farnsfield (48.9).
Older than Lytchett Matravers: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lytchett Matravers | 3,455 | — | 48.8 | 28% | 27% |
| Upton | 8,401 | 2.7 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 28% |
| Corfe Mullen | 10,036 | 2.7 mi | 47.8 | 24% | 28% |
| Sturminster Marshall | 1,504 | 2.7 mi | 48.4 | 24% | 30% |
| Sandford | 2,004 | 3.7 mi | 52 | 29% | 26% |
| Wareham | 5,876 | 4.8 mi | 52.6 | 32% | 21% |
| Merley | 5,489 | 5.2 mi | 48.7 | 30% | 25% |
| Poole | 141,009 | 5.4 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 26% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Lytchett 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 Lytchett Matravers’s residents
What is the population of Lytchett Matravers?
The 2021 Census counted 3,455 people in Lytchett Matravers’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lytchett Matravers?
The median age was 48.8 at the 2021 Census, older than 79% of UK towns. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lytchett Matravers?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Dorset’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lytchett Matravers?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Lytchett Matravers good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lytchett 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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