Photo: Ray Bird · CC BY-SA 2.0Hillesley ranks below 99% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 2.4%
With a median age of 51.2, Hillesley is older than 90% of UK towns. There were 127 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 310 residents. On the census count, 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Hillesley has 97%.
7.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over here. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
In Hillesley, 3.9% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 86% of UK towns
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%.
Hillesley sits close to the norm on residents who moved in within the year: 11%, about the same as across England’s towns. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 20% of households in Hillesley are one person living alone
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.
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Hillesley, 2.4. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 5.5%. 28% of households have dependent children, more than in 61% of UK towns.
Fewer households in flats than 98% of UK towns: 1.6%
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: 25%, above 69% of UK towns. The benchmark for households in flats across England’s towns: 23%. The census found that 49% of households live in a detached house in Hillesley.
Hillesley 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
Residents born outside the UK make up 4.2%, against 18% across England’s towns. To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.6%) and in Africa (1%).
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 70% of UK towns: 53%
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: 97% of Hillesley · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 37% across England’s towns, two in five residents said they have no religion in Hillesley. Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 97% of UK towns, at 59%
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
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 8.1%, from the figure across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 5 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 49%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 49% of adults in Hillesley, 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification, against 18%.
The towns around Hillesley are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillesley | 310 | — | 51.2 | 23% | 28% |
| Hawkesbury Upton | 1,001 | 1.9 mi | 48.1 | 23% | 31% |
| Kingswood | 1,409 | 2 mi | 43.6 | 18% | 36% |
| Wotton-under-Edge | 4,966 | 2.3 mi | 47.6 | 26% | 25% |
| Wickwar | 1,701 | 2.8 mi | 44.7 | 16% | 35% |
| Charfield | 2,833 | 3.2 mi | 42.3 | 17% | 34% |
| Chipping Sodbury | 8,026 | 5.5 mi | 48.3 | 28% | 24% |
| Dursley | 7,935 | 5.5 mi | 42.5 | 19% | 29% |
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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 Hillesley’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 Hillesley’s residents
What is the population of Hillesley?
The 2021 Census counted 310 people in Hillesley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hillesley?
The median age was 51.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hillesley?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 4.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hillesley?
40% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Hillesley good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hillesley’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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