Syrena House · Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0Stratton ranks below 94% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 7.4%
57% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 58%, more than in 96% of UK towns. Stratton had 2,558 residents and 1,121 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 49.4 (older than 82% of UK towns). Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 8.8%.
Stratton is older than 82% of UK towns: a median age of 49.4
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 8.3% of residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 27% in Stratton.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Stratton, 49.4. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
Stratton: 5.2% of adults are full-time students, above 64% 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%.
Across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier; in Stratton, 8.2%. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
A smaller share of one-person households than 78% of UK towns: 26%
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, 29% of households have dependent children; in Stratton, 26%. Set beside that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Here, 2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Few flats: only 3.3% of households in Stratton 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, the share of households in detached houses is 21%; Stratton has 38%. For households in flats, the comparison across England’s towns is 23%. 16% of households live in a terraced house.
Stratton sits above 80% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.6%), then in Africa (1.2%). At 5.9%, the share of residents born outside the UK is lower than in 55% of UK towns. As a reference point, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Where just over a fifth of those born abroad across England’s towns arrived in 2017 or later, here the share is 9.4%.
Stratton sits above 74% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (95%)
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: 95% of Stratton · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.3%) and Indian (0.4%). Across the comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. 36% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 77% of UK towns.
25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 92% 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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 46 residents. Unpaid carers are rarer here than in 71% of UK towns. On average, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 42% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 42% of adults in Stratton, 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification, against 18%.
65th oldest of 219 UK towns of 2,500 to 3,000 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 Keele (20.6), the youngest, and St Mary's Bay (60.8), the oldest. Nearest to Stratton in age: Petworth (49.2), Costessey (49.4), Bluntisham and Colne (49.5) and Caton (49.6).
Of the 7 towns nearest Stratton, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratton | 2,558 | — | 49.4 | 27% | 26% |
| Cirencester | 17,715 | 1.4 mi | 45.5 | 23% | 24% |
| South Cerney | 3,998 | 4.5 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 29% |
| Ashton Keynes | 1,425 | 6.2 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 28% |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 7.8 mi | 49.6 | 24% | 27% |
| Cricklade | 4,030 | 8 mi | 50.1 | 27% | 24% |
| Fairford | 4,240 | 8.5 mi | 45.8 | 24% | 28% |
| Northleach | 1,997 | 9 mi | 49.8 | 27% | 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 Stratton’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 Stratton’s residents
What is the population of Stratton?
The 2021 Census counted 2,558 people in Stratton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stratton?
The median age was 49.4 at the 2021 Census, older than 82% of UK towns. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stratton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stratton?
36% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Stratton good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stratton’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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