Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 98% of UK towns: half of Stoborough is over 57.7
The share of unpaid carers tops 96% of UK towns: 12%. 868 residents in 387 households: that is Stoborough at the 2021 Census. In Stoborough, nearly one in ten households have no car or van. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 97% of UK towns.
In Stoborough, 38% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 98% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: 12% of residents, 2.4 times the share across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 9.5% in Stoborough.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Stoborough, 8.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 60% 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%.
38% of Stoborough’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Against that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Full-time students account for 4.7%.
Only 27% of households in Stoborough 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.
There is little gap on shared households of unrelated adults: 3.4%, about the same as across England’s towns. Households average 2.2 people. As a yardstick, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
0.8% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 99% 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
Detached houses are home to just over half of households, against 21% across England’s towns. Lower than in 78% of UK towns: 14% of households live in a terraced house. Against that, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Stoborough: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 92% 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
Here 5.1% of residents were born outside the UK, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. As a reference point, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.1%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%).
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 87% 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 Stoborough · Dorset’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 57%, against 46% across England’s towns. 37% of residents said they have no religion. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%.
Stoborough ranks above 96% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 59%
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
Adults who have never married make up 24%, against 39% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 29 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week.
36% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 36% of Stoborough’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 13% have no qualification (18%).
The towns around Stoborough are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoborough | 868 | — | 57.7 | 38% | 19% |
| Wareham | 5,876 | 1.6 mi | 52.6 | 32% | 21% |
| Sandford | 2,004 | 2.4 mi | 52 | 29% | 26% |
| Wool | 5,044 | 5.5 mi | 37.6 | 17% | 33% |
| Upton | 8,401 | 5.6 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 28% |
| Lytchett Matravers | 3,455 | 6.1 mi | 48.8 | 28% | 27% |
| Swanage | 9,115 | 7.4 mi | 56.4 | 35% | 18% |
| Bere Regis | 1,320 | 7.5 mi | 50.5 | 28% | 22% |
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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 Stoborough’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 Stoborough’s residents
What is the population of Stoborough?
The 2021 Census counted 868 people in Stoborough’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stoborough?
The median age was 57.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 38% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stoborough?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Dorset’s towns. 5.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stoborough?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Stoborough good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stoborough’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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