Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns: 4.9%
Detached houses are home to 58% of households, against 21% across England’s towns. Half of Coates’s residents are over 50.8, older than in 89% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 491, in 204 households. Across Coates, just over a fifth of households are one person living alone.
11% of residents are 15 to 24, more than in 80% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 22%, above 55% of UK towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Coates sits above 93% of UK towns for full-time students (7.5%)
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%.
At 11%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is in line with the figure across England’s towns. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bigger households than 81% of UK towns: 2.4 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.9%, above 75% of UK towns. Locally, 28% of households have dependent children.
In Coates, 1.5% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 98% of UK towns
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
Households in terraced houses: 9.4% here and 24% across England’s towns. Typically, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Coates: 7.7% of residents 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
98% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.9%) and in EU countries (2.7%).
Coates ranks above 98% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 64%
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: 95% of Coates · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (3.9%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and African (0.2%). At 29%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 95% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 66%
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
4 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Across the comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 21%, the share of adults who have never married is lower than in 99% of UK towns. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 9.3%, from the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 49% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Coates, 49% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 7.5% have no qualification at all (18%). Many still at university: 16% list A levels as their highest qualification.
Around Coates, 2 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coates | 491 | — | 50.8 | 22% | 28% |
| Stratton | 2,558 | 3 mi | 49.4 | 27% | 26% |
| Cirencester | 17,715 | 3.1 mi | 45.5 | 23% | 24% |
| South Cerney | 3,998 | 5.1 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 29% |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 5.6 mi | 49.6 | 24% | 27% |
| Ashton Keynes | 1,425 | 6 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 28% |
| Avening | 1,054 | 6.1 mi | 49.1 | 23% | 29% |
| Minchinhampton | 3,412 | 6.7 mi | 53.7 | 34% | 22% |
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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 Coates’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 Coates’s residents
What is the population of Coates?
The 2021 Census counted 491 people in Coates’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Coates?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Coates?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 7.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Coates?
29% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Coates good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Coates’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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