Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Chappel sits below 99% of UK towns for shared households of unrelated adults (1%)
Terraced houses are home to 27% of households, against 24% across England’s towns. The share of households without a car or van stands at 13%. More residents with no religion than in just over two thirds of UK towns: 44%. Chappel had 218 residents in 101 households at the 2021 Census.
Chappel ranks below 71% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 19%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
40–44 is the most common age band: 8.7% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 10%. With a median age of 43.9, Chappel is younger than 55% of UK 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.
2.9% of adults are full-time students, below 99% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in just over two in five adults here, routine and semi-routine work 20% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). The share of full-time students across England’s towns is 7.9%. For Chappel, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 3.7%.
Fewer one-person households than 69% of UK towns: 28%
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.
There are 2.3 people in the average household. Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children; in Chappel, 28%.
More households in detached houses than 56% of UK towns: 32%
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
12% of households live in a flat or apartment; across England’s towns the figure is 23%. On average, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 73% 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
Born outside the UK: 5.5% of residents, against 18% across England’s towns. For comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 94%, a higher share than 62% 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: 94% of Chappel · Essex’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Muslims make up 1.8% of residents. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are scarce here: 48%, fewer than in 60% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
More married adults and civil partners than 67% of UK towns: 51%
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
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 7.8%, from the figure across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 7 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 32%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 32% of adults in Chappel (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 13% (England’s towns: 18%).
Every neighbour of Chappel has an older population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chappel | 218 | — | 43.9 | 19% | 28% |
| Eight Ash Green | 1,769 | 2.6 mi | 45.9 | 24% | 27% |
| Earls Colne | 3,360 | 2.9 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 30% |
| Marks Tey | 1,817 | 3 mi | 48.3 | 24% | 28% |
| Copford | 1,794 | 3.3 mi | 44.8 | 22% | 27% |
| Bures | 1,183 | 3.6 mi | 48.4 | 27% | 25% |
| West Bergholt | 3,175 | 3.9 mi | 48.6 | 25% | 28% |
| Coggeshall | 3,767 | 4.6 mi | 50.1 | 28% | 24% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Chappel’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 Chappel’s residents
What is the population of Chappel?
The 2021 Census counted 218 people in Chappel’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Chappel?
The median age was 43.9 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Chappel?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across Essex’s towns. 5.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Chappel?
44% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.8% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Chappel good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Chappel’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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