Photo: Own work · CC BY-SA 3.0Only 4% of households have no car or van in Tockington
Across England’s towns, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment; in Tockington, 1.2%. At the same time, 67% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a higher share than in 99% of UK towns. The village is home to 444 residents in 176 households, by the 2021 Census. On the census count, 7.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
A median age of 47.3: Tockington is older than 71% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 45–49 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. On the census count, a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Tockington sits above 75% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (10%)
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 61% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 8.1% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Lower than in 54% of UK towns: 4.7% of adults are full-time students. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Only 24% of households in Tockington 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.
Compared with 4.3% across England’s towns, 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home here. On average, 2.5 people share a household. At 30%, the share of households with dependent children is higher than in 71% of UK towns.
A larger share of households in detached houses than 92% of UK towns: 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
By its share of households in terraced houses (27%), Tockington is above 76% of UK towns. As a reference point, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Tockington, 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
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK in Tockington comes in at 5.4%. By way of comparison, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.7%), then in Africa (1.6%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 92% of UK towns, at 59%
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: 93% of Tockington · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 36%, below nearly four fifths of UK towns. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%. The census found that 93% of residents describe themselves as White British in Tockington.
Tockington ranks below 99% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 19%
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
Nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 12% in Tockington. On average, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 6 people.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 59%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 59% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 5.6% hold no qualification (18%).
Tockington sits below 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tockington | 444 | — | 47.3 | 25% | 30% |
| Olveston | 1,009 | 0.7 mi | 50.6 | 33% | 25% |
| Almondsbury | 2,937 | 1.4 mi | 45.3 | 21% | 33% |
| Alveston | 2,065 | 1.6 mi | 53.4 | 34% | 22% |
| Bradley Stoke | 25,194 | 3 mi | 37.3 | 11% | 33% |
| Patchway | 16,517 | 3.2 mi | 35.1 | 13% | 33% |
| Thornbury | 14,483 | 3.2 mi | 43.5 | 23% | 29% |
| Pilning | 1,400 | 3.4 mi | 45 | 20% | 28% |
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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 Tockington’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 Tockington’s residents
What is the population of Tockington?
The 2021 Census counted 444 people in Tockington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tockington?
The median age was 47.3 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tockington?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 5.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tockington?
36% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Tockington good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Tockington’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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