Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0Stour Row is older than 98% of UK towns: a median age of 57.4
Households in terraced houses: 3%, below 99% of UK towns. There were 135 households in Stour Row at the 2021 Census, home to 308 residents. Census figures put married adults and civil partners at 67% locally. Lower than in 97% of UK towns: 19% of households have dependent children.
In Stour Row, 5.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 15% of residents, 2.2 times the share across England’s towns. Here, 32% of residents are 65 or over.
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.
Only 2.6% of adults are full-time students in Stour Row
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%.
In Stour Row, 42% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 13% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns. For Stour Row, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 9.5%.
Only 21% of households are one person living alone in Stour Row
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.
The figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 3% in Stour Row and 4.3% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of one-person households is 30%. Households average 2.3 people.
88% of households live in a detached house, more 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
By its share of households without a car or van (5.2%), Stour Row is below 98% of UK towns. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns, at 100%
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 5.9% of residents were born outside the UK, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. Measured more widely, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%).
Stour Row sits above 91% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (58%)
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 Stour Row · Dorset’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 73% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British in Stour Row comes in at 96%. For Stour Row, the census puts residents with no religion at 35%. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%.
16% 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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 9 people. 12% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 95% of UK towns. The usual figure: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
50% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
7.8% of Stour Row’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 50% have one at degree level (34%).
Stour Row is younger than 2 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stour Row | 308 | — | 57.4 | 32% | 19% |
| Marnhull | 1,466 | 2.8 mi | 59.5 | 40% | 16% |
| Shaftesbury | 9,163 | 3.3 mi | 44.2 | 24% | 26% |
| Motcombe | 1,366 | 3.4 mi | 52.7 | 28% | 22% |
| Gillingham | 11,009 | 3.7 mi | 48.5 | 27% | 24% |
| Sturminster Newton | 3,565 | 4.4 mi | 48.2 | 28% | 24% |
| Child Okeford | 1,159 | 5.2 mi | 60.3 | 42% | 17% |
| Stalbridge | 2,367 | 5.6 mi | 55.6 | 35% | 20% |
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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 Stour Row’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 Stour Row’s residents
What is the population of Stour Row?
The 2021 Census counted 308 people in Stour Row’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stour Row?
The median age was 57.4 at the 2021 Census. 5.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stour Row?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Dorset’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stour Row?
35% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Stour Row good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stour Row’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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