Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Bledington is older than 94% of UK towns: a median age of 53
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1%, below 99% of UK towns. On households with dependent children, Bledington sits lower than 90% of UK towns: 22%. The village is home to 458 residents in 210 households, by the 2021 Census. 21% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 31% in Bledington, more than in 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
9.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (England’s towns: 12%). Against that, 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.
Below 96% of UK towns: 3.4% of adults are full-time students
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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Bledington has 38% and 16%. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. For Bledington, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 7%.
2.2 people per household, fewer than in 73% of UK towns
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.
One-person households account for 30%.
Bledington ranks below 96% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 6.7%
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 in flats (5.7%), Bledington is below four fifths of UK towns. Across the comparison, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns. 12% of households live in a terraced house. Compared with other places, households in detached houses are common here: 51%, more than in 91% of UK towns.
7.6% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 61% 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
The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (3.2%) and in EU countries (3%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%. Residents whose main language is English: 98% here and 90% across England’s towns.
Only 30% of residents said they have no religion in Bledington
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: 93% of Bledington · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 59% in Bledington and 46% across England’s towns. The largest groups after White British are Other White (3.3%), Mixed or multiple (2.2%) and Indian (1.3%). The wider picture: 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Bledington sits above 99% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (62%)
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
For 13 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, 9.4% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
44% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
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 Bledington, 44%, and 13% have none, against 18%.
Bledington and its 7 nearest towns: 2 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bledington | 458 | — | 53 | 31% | 22% |
| Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood | 2,956 | 3.1 mi | 50.8 | 29% | 25% |
| Upper Rissington | 1,999 | 3.2 mi | 38.5 | 9.1% | 41% |
| Stow-on-the-Wold | 1,907 | 3.8 mi | 58.2 | 39% | 14% |
| Bourton-on-the-Water | 4,177 | 4.8 mi | 47.7 | 28% | 26% |
| Chipping Norton | 6,991 | 5 mi | 45.5 | 24% | 25% |
| Moreton-in-Marsh | 5,015 | 6.5 mi | 46.1 | 25% | 23% |
| Burford | 1,522 | 6.6 mi | 56.3 | 37% | 16% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Bledington’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 Bledington’s residents
What is the population of Bledington?
The 2021 Census counted 458 people in Bledington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bledington?
The median age was 53 at the 2021 Census. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bledington?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 7.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bledington?
30% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 9.1% didn’t answer.
Is Bledington good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bledington’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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