Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 3% of households have no car or van
One-person households make up 17%, against 30% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census, 338 people lived in Bradwell, in 134 households. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 98% of the total. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 56% here, more than in 90% of UK towns.
Older than 83% of UK towns: half of Bradwell is over 49.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 50–54: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. For Bradwell, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 25%. At 11%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is higher than in 77% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 95% of UK towns: 3.5%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 3.6% here and 11% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bradwell households average 2.5 people, larger than in 92% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Essex’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Against a figure of 4.3% across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Bradwell comes in at 2.2%. Across Bradwell, just over a quarter of households have dependent children.
Households in detached houses make up 66% in Bradwell, more than in 98% 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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, households in detached houses come to 21%. For Bradwell, the census puts households in terraced houses at 7.4%.
Only 3% of residents were born outside the UK in Bradwell
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.2%) and in Africa (0.9%). As a reference point, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 99% of UK towns.
No religion: 46% of residents, a higher share than 79% 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: 98% of Bradwell · Essex’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
48% of residents describe themselves as Christian (England’s towns: 46%). Residents with no religion: 37% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Unpaid carers make up 4.7% in Bradwell, less 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 carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 3. To put it in context, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Lower than in 67% of UK towns: 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
31% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Bradwell, 31%, and 9.7% have none, against 18%.
Bradwell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradwell | 338 | — | 49.7 | 25% | 26% |
| Silver End | 3,913 | 1.8 mi | 39.7 | 18% | 33% |
| Tye Green | 1,415 | 2 mi | 43.1 | 23% | 26% |
| Braintree | 43,179 | 2.6 mi | 40 | 18% | 30% |
| Coggeshall | 3,767 | 2.8 mi | 50.1 | 28% | 24% |
| Black Notley | 1,932 | 2.9 mi | 42.5 | 17% | 35% |
| Great Notley | 7,659 | 4.1 mi | 41.6 | 16% | 38% |
| Gosfield | 1,453 | 4.3 mi | 55.5 | 34% | 21% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Essex’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Essex (or England), summed the same way as Bradwell’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 Bradwell’s residents
What is the population of Bradwell?
The 2021 Census counted 338 people in Bradwell’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bradwell?
The median age was 49.7 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bradwell?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across Essex’s towns. 3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bradwell?
46% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Bradwell good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bradwell’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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