Photo: Dave Croker · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns: 4.2%
With a median age of 49.5, Saul is older than 83% of UK towns. The 2021 Census counted 348 residents in 144 households. Here, 97% of residents describe themselves as White British. Compared with 30% across England’s towns, just over a quarter of households are one person living alone here.
11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
At 18%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is in line with the figure across England’s towns. As a reference point, 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 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 98% of UK towns, at 5.9%
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%.
The share of full-time students is 6.1%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bigger households than 80% of UK towns: 2.4 people each 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.
With households with dependent children at 30%, Saul is ahead of 73% of UK towns on that count. The village has fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 65% of UK towns, at 2.1%.
Few flats: only 0.7% of households in Saul live in one
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, 24% of households live in a terraced house; in Saul, 19%. Locally, 40% of households live in a detached house. The comparison figure for households in flats is 23% across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 81% 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (4%) and in Africa (1.2%). The benchmark for residents whose main language is English across England’s towns: 90%. 5.5% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns.
Saul: 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 76% 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: 97% of Saul · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
In Saul, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion, beside 37% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 90% of UK towns don’t reach
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
1 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On adults who have never married, Saul sits lower than 72% of UK towns: 29%. At 7.8%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 37% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 37% of adults in Saul (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 11% (England’s towns: 18%).
Saul and its 7 nearest towns: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saul | 348 | — | 49.5 | 18% | 30% |
| Frampton on Severn | 1,069 | 0.6 mi | 50.3 | 29% | 31% |
| Eastington | 1,218 | 3.1 mi | 44.7 | 21% | 27% |
| Newnham | 1,054 | 3.8 mi | 53.6 | 32% | 18% |
| Stonehouse | 8,302 | 4.3 mi | 43.8 | 21% | 25% |
| Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 21,125 | 4.5 mi | 35.9 | 12% | 34% |
| Blakeney | 1,303 | 5 mi | 49.4 | 26% | 23% |
| Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley | 3,584 | 5.3 mi | 46.6 | 25% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Saul’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 Saul’s residents
What is the population of Saul?
The 2021 Census counted 348 people in Saul’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Saul?
The median age was 49.5 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 18% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Saul?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 5.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Saul?
39% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Saul good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Saul’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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