Photo: Arpingstone · Public domainCam sits below 90% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (8.3%)
73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, against 96% in Cam. Census day 2021: 7,730 residents and 3,506 households locally. The census found that 16% of households live in a terraced house locally. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 82% of UK towns.
Cam grew +16% from 2011 to 2024, ahead of 78% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Cam’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 6,800 people in 2011; 7,900 in 2024.
The largest rise in a single year came from mid-2022 to mid-2023: 300 people. The 30 to 44 age group moved most (+31%); the 16 to 29 group moved least (−1%).
Half of Cam is over 49.2, older than 81% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Cam comes in at 25%. No age band is larger than 55–59: 8% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Cam, 49.2. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Cam sits below 95% of UK towns for full-time students (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%.
In Cam, 35% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 26% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. On the census count, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 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.
1.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across England’s towns the figure is 4.3%. Census figures put one-person households at 30% in Cam.
Only 13% of households have no car or van in Cam
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
Flats are home to 9.1% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. One household in every 8 has no car or van. At 34%, the share of households in detached houses is higher than in 62% of UK towns.
Below 73% of UK towns: 4.4% of residents were born outside the UK
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.3%) and in Africa (0.8%). More residents whose main language is English than in 78% of UK towns: 99%. For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%. Born abroad and arrived since 2017: 8% of that group, against 21% across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 52%, a higher share than 64% 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: 96% of Cam · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (2.5%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and African (0.2%). On average, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Residents with no religion: 41% here and 37% across England’s towns.
29% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 74% 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
Married people and civil partners make up 50% of adults, against 44% across England’s towns. Add to that, at 9.9%, the share of unpaid carers is higher than in 64% of UK towns. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
31% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 31% of adults in Cam, 34% across England’s towns; 17% have no qualification, against 18%.
113th highest median age among 538 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Red Lodge (30.9) and the oldest Barton on Sea (65.3). Nearest to Cam in age: Haslington (49.2), Bungay (49.2), Edwinstowe (49.3) and Highworth (49.3).
No nearby town is as old as Cam
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cam | 7,730 | — | 49.2 | 25% | 24% |
| Dursley | 7,935 | 1.3 mi | 42.5 | 19% | 29% |
| Eastington | 1,218 | 3.8 mi | 44.7 | 21% | 27% |
| Berkeley | 2,250 | 3.8 mi | 46 | 24% | 24% |
| Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley | 3,584 | 4.4 mi | 46.6 | 25% | 26% |
| Sharpness | 1,237 | 4.4 mi | 39.9 | 17% | 30% |
| Wotton-under-Edge | 4,966 | 4.5 mi | 47.6 | 26% | 25% |
| Stonehouse | 8,302 | 5 mi | 43.8 | 21% | 25% |
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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 Cam’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Cam’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 7,043 people in 2021, against 7,730 in the built-up area.
- 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 Cam’s residents
What is the population of Cam?
The 2021 Census counted 7,730 people in Cam’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 7,900 people in mid-2024, 16% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Cam?
The median age was 49.2 at the 2021 Census, older than 81% of UK towns. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cam?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 4.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cam?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Cam good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cam’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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