Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54.1: Longborough is older than 95% of UK towns
With households without a car or van at 4.9%, Longborough is behind 99% of UK towns on that count. For Longborough, the census puts households in flats at 1.3%. More residents who describe themselves as Christian than in 97% of UK towns: 63%. The village counted 490 residents and 230 households at the 2021 Census.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of UK towns: 6.6%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 31% here and 18% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Longborough sits below 88% of UK towns for full-time students (3.9%)
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 45% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 17% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. In Longborough, 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Only 19% of households in Longborough have dependent children
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.
In Longborough the average household is 2.1 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 2.6% here.
Longborough ranks above 92% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 53%
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
Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%; Longborough has 18%. For households in detached houses, the comparison across England’s towns is 21%.
Longborough sits above 86% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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 abroad were most often born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.7%), then in EU countries (1.4%). As a yardstick, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Longborough has 6.8%.
32% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 90% 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: 94% of Longborough · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
With residents who describe themselves as White British at 94%, Longborough is ahead of 71% of UK towns on that count. The share of residents with no religion across England’s towns is 37%. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (2.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and Chinese (0.2%).
In Longborough, 58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 95% 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
The figure for adults who have never married is 25% in Longborough and 39% across England’s towns. Across Longborough, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
41% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
41% of Longborough’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 12% have none (18%).
Longborough sits below 3 of its 7 closest neighbours on 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longborough | 490 | — | 54.1 | 31% | 19% |
| Stow-on-the-Wold | 1,907 | 2.5 mi | 58.2 | 39% | 14% |
| Moreton-in-Marsh | 5,015 | 2.7 mi | 46.1 | 25% | 23% |
| Blockley | 1,069 | 3.7 mi | 53.4 | 29% | 22% |
| Bourton-on-the-Water | 4,177 | 5.4 mi | 47.7 | 28% | 26% |
| Chipping Campden | 2,120 | 6.3 mi | 57 | 37% | 18% |
| Upper Rissington | 1,999 | 6.4 mi | 38.5 | 9.1% | 41% |
| Broadway | 2,719 | 7.3 mi | 56.5 | 37% | 16% |
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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 Longborough’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 Longborough’s residents
What is the population of Longborough?
The 2021 Census counted 490 people in Longborough’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Longborough?
The median age was 54.1 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Longborough?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 6.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Longborough?
32% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.7% didn’t answer.
Is Longborough good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Longborough’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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