Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Broadwell is over 52.3, older than 93% of UK towns
Where 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, Broadwell has 25%. At 8%, the share of households without a car or van is lower than in 92% of UK towns. The village counted 342 residents and 160 households at the 2021 Census. The census found that 43% of households live in a detached house locally.
In Broadwell, 6.5% 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 figure for residents aged 65 and over is 28% in Broadwell and 18% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
56% women, 44% men
About 78 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.
A smaller share of full-time students than 69% of UK towns: 4.4%
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 account for 36% of Broadwell’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 20%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. In Broadwell, 9.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Across England’s towns, full-time students come to 7.9%.
20% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 95% 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.
The average household has 2.1 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. For comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 2.5%.
Few flats: only 2.5% of households in Broadwell live in one
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
17% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Broadwell: 100% of residents have English as their main language, above 99% 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.3%). Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language. 6.1% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 54%, a higher share than 77% 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: 90% of Broadwell · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Nothing unusual on residents with no religion: 37%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as Christian come to 46%. For Broadwell, the census puts residents who describe themselves as White British at 90%.
Broadwell sits above 87% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (55%)
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
12 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Set beside that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns: 9.6%.
40% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Broadwell, 40% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 15% have no qualification at all (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 2 are older than Broadwell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadwell | 342 | — | 52.3 | 28% | 20% |
| Stow-on-the-Wold | 1,907 | 1.3 mi | 58.2 | 39% | 14% |
| Moreton-in-Marsh | 5,015 | 3.1 mi | 46.1 | 25% | 23% |
| Bourton-on-the-Water | 4,177 | 4.7 mi | 47.7 | 28% | 26% |
| Upper Rissington | 1,999 | 5 mi | 38.5 | 9.1% | 41% |
| Blockley | 1,069 | 5.3 mi | 53.4 | 29% | 22% |
| Chipping Norton | 6,991 | 6.8 mi | 45.5 | 24% | 25% |
| Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood | 2,956 | 7.1 mi | 50.8 | 29% | 25% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Broadwell’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 Broadwell’s residents
What is the population of Broadwell?
The 2021 Census counted 342 people in Broadwell’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Broadwell?
The median age was 52.3 at the 2021 Census. 6.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Broadwell?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Broadwell?
37% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 8.1% didn’t answer.
Is Broadwell good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Broadwell’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.