Photo: Peter I. Vardy · Public domainGuiting Power is older than 93% of UK towns: a median age of 52.5
In Guiting Power the average household is 2.1 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. Locally, 18% of households have dependent children. Households without a car or van are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 296 people lived locally, in 140 households.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 7.4% in Guiting Power, less than in 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 18%; Guiting Power has 29%. On average, 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.
Guiting Power 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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 7.1%, against 11% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
33% of households are one person living alone, more than in 74% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns.
39% of households live in a detached house, more than in 74% 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
In Guiting Power, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment, beside 23% across England’s towns. To put it in context, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Guiting Power ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 100%
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 EU countries (3.4%) and in Africa (3.1%). On residents born outside the UK, Guiting Power sits higher than three quarters of UK towns: 10%. For comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Guiting Power ranks above 97% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 62%
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 Guiting Power · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, against 93% in Guiting Power. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Census figures put residents with no religion at 32% locally.
6.9% of residents give unpaid care, below 96% 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
Compared with 44% across England’s towns, nearly half of adults are married or in a civil partnership here. Higher than in just over three fifths of UK towns: 34% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. The comparison figure for unpaid carers is 8.7% across England’s towns. 8 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
40% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Guiting Power, 8.2%, while 40% hold one at degree level (34%).
Guiting Power and its 7 nearest towns: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guiting Power | 296 | — | 52.5 | 29% | 18% |
| Winchcombe | 4,339 | 5 mi | 52.6 | 33% | 23% |
| Bourton-on-the-Water | 4,177 | 5.3 mi | 47.7 | 28% | 26% |
| Stow-on-the-Wold | 1,907 | 6.2 mi | 58.2 | 39% | 14% |
| Northleach | 1,997 | 6.5 mi | 49.8 | 27% | 26% |
| Upper Rissington | 1,999 | 7.5 mi | 38.5 | 9.1% | 41% |
| Prestbury | 4,078 | 7.6 mi | 51.1 | 31% | 23% |
| Blockley | 1,069 | 7.9 mi | 53.4 | 29% | 22% |
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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 Guiting Power’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 Guiting Power’s residents
What is the population of Guiting Power?
The 2021 Census counted 296 people in Guiting Power’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Guiting Power?
The median age was 52.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Guiting Power?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 10% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Guiting Power?
32% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Guiting Power good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Guiting Power’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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