4.9% of households have no car or van, below 99% of UK towns
Households in detached houses make up 53%, against 21% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Engine Common was home to 665 people in 267 households. 95% of residents describe themselves as White British. One-person households are rarer here than in 97% of UK towns.
Engine Common is older than 72% of UK towns: a median age of 47.6
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up one in ten residents, against 12% across England’s towns. The census found that just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over in Engine Common.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of full-time students than 96% of UK towns: 3.3%
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%.
Across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier; in Engine Common, 8.2%. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
Larger households than 86% of UK towns: 2.5 people 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 are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 5.2%. On the census count, nearly a quarter of households have dependent children.
Only 3.8% of households live in a terraced house in Engine Common
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
4.9% of households live in a flat or apartment (England’s towns: 23%). Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%.
Residents born outside the UK make up 4.4% in Engine Common, less than in 73% 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
Where nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Engine Common has 98%. Across the comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%).
43% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 61% 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: 95% of Engine Common · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 48% of residents describe themselves as Christian, where the figure across England’s towns is 46%. Across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (1.7%), Pakistani (0.8%) and Mixed or multiple (0.8%).
Engine Common ranks above 83% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 54%
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 15 residents. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%. Engine Common has more unpaid carers than 59% of UK towns, at 9.7%. Adults who have never married: 32% here and 39% across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 28% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Engine Common counts 28% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 20% have no qualification (18%).
Older than Engine Common: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine Common | 665 | — | 47.6 | 22% | 24% |
| Yate | 28,352 | 1.1 mi | 39.9 | 18% | 30% |
| Chipping Sodbury | 8,026 | 2 mi | 48.3 | 28% | 24% |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 14,969 | 2.7 mi | 47.1 | 25% | 29% |
| Wickwar | 1,701 | 3.4 mi | 44.7 | 16% | 35% |
| Pucklechurch | 2,702 | 4.6 mi | 47 | 23% | 25% |
| Alveston | 2,065 | 5 mi | 53.4 | 34% | 22% |
| Bradley Stoke | 25,194 | 5 mi | 37.3 | 11% | 33% |
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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 Engine Common’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 Engine Common’s residents
What is the population of Engine Common?
The 2021 Census counted 665 people in Engine Common’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Engine Common?
The median age was 47.6 at the 2021 Census. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Engine Common?
95% 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 Engine Common?
43% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 7.2% didn’t answer.
Is Engine Common good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Engine Common’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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