Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0Newent ranks above 81% of UK towns on one-person households: 34%
55% of residents describe themselves as Christian; across England’s towns the figure is 46%. The 2021 Census put Newent’s population at 5,360, in 2,434 households. Residents aged 65 and over: a quarter of the total. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in three quarters of UK towns.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 71% of UK towns, at 9.1%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 30–34: 7.1% of residents. The median age in Newent is 44.7, higher than in 51% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Newent, 44.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Full-time students make up 3.8% in Newent, less than in 90% 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%.
Set against 11% across England’s towns, one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier in Newent. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
2.2 people per household, fewer than in 75% 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.
4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, against 2.9% in Newent.
Newent ranks above 65% of UK towns on households in flats: 14%
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 Newent, 23% of households live in a terraced house, beside 24% across England’s towns. Here, 17% of households have no car or van.
Newent ranks above 78% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 11%
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, against 92% in Newent. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (8.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%).
88% of residents describe themselves as White British, fewer than in 72% 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: 88% of Newent · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 38% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. By way of comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (8.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and African (0.5%).
Newent sits below 65% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (46%)
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 census found that 9.6% of residents give unpaid care in Newent. 32% of the town’s adults have never married or formed a civil partnership and 46% are married, against 39% and 44% across England’s towns.
30% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
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 Newent, 21%, while 30% hold one at degree level (34%).
205th youngest of 516 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Bailrigg (18.9), the youngest, and Barton on Sea (65.3), the oldest. Nearest to Newent in age: Great Glen (44.6), Willington (44.7), Sturry (44.7) and Whitfield (44.7).
Of the 7 towns nearest Newent, 5 are older
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Newent’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 Newent’s residents
What is the population of Newent?
The 2021 Census counted 5,360 people in Newent’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Newent?
The median age was 44.7 at the 2021 Census, older than 51% of UK towns. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Newent?
88% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Newent?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Newent good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Newent’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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