Bagpath is older than 98% of UK towns: a median age of 57.7
Households without a car or van are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Bagpath’s 125 households held 310 residents at the 2021 Census. 1.6% of households live in a flat or apartment. One-person households make up 12%, against 30% across England’s towns.
Bagpath sits above 99% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (38%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.1%, below 92% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
More full-time students than 69% of UK towns: 5.3%
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%.
At 11%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is in line with the figure across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bigger households than 91% of UK towns: 2.5 people each on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Gloucestershire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, against 3.2% in Bagpath. The share of households with dependent children stands at 25%.
A higher share of households in detached houses than 99% of UK towns, at 77%
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
The figure for households in terraced houses is 6.5% in Bagpath and 24% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 88% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Set against 18% across England’s towns, one in ten residents were born outside the UK in Bagpath. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (3.2%), then in EU countries (1.9%).
Bagpath sits above 74% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (54%)
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: 90% of Bagpath · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (3.9%), Mixed or multiple (3.2%) and Pakistani (0.3%). Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 80% of UK towns. The wider picture: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British; across England’s towns the figure is 73%.
71% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more 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
Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%; Bagpath has 13%. Still, 16% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 59% of adults
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 Bagpath, 59%, and 6.1% have none, against 18%.
Bagpath is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bagpath | 310 | — | 57.7 | 38% | 25% |
| Amberley | 1,300 | 0.8 mi | 55.9 | 35% | 23% |
| Brimscombe and Thrupp | 2,187 | 1.3 mi | 47.4 | 18% | 30% |
| Stroud | 26,073 | 1.4 mi | 45.3 | 21% | 25% |
| Minchinhampton | 3,412 | 1.9 mi | 53.7 | 34% | 22% |
| Nailsworth | 5,657 | 2.1 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 24% |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 2.5 mi | 49.6 | 24% | 27% |
| Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley | 3,584 | 2.7 mi | 46.6 | 25% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “Gloucestershire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Gloucestershire (or England), summed the same way as Bagpath’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 Bagpath’s residents
What is the population of Bagpath?
The 2021 Census counted 310 people in Bagpath’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bagpath?
The median age was 57.7 at the 2021 Census. 8.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 38% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bagpath?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 9.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bagpath?
35% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 7.4% didn’t answer.
Is Bagpath good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bagpath’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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