Photo: Timothy Titus · CC BY-SA 4.0A median age of 55.5: Upton St Leonards is older than 97% of UK towns
19% of households have dependent children (England’s towns: 29%). Higher than in 99% of UK towns: 64% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Upton St Leonards is home to 1,132 residents in 508 households, by the 2021 Census. Here, 62% of households live in a detached house.
What the Census says about Upton St Leonards’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Upton St Leonards’s residents are under 55.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 36% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Upton St Leonards: 36% of residents are 65 or over, above 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: nearly one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. For Upton St Leonards, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 6.9%. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns, at 2.7%
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%.
Compared with 11% across England’s towns, 5.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
Smaller households than 71% of UK towns: 2.2 people 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.
Across England’s towns, the share of one-person households is 30%; Upton St Leonards has 28%. In Upton St Leonards, 2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
In Upton St Leonards, 3.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 88% of UK towns
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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Upton St Leonards comes in at 9.3%. Lower than in 87% of UK towns: 11% of households live in a terraced house. To put it in context, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born abroad than 80% of UK towns: 3.8%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.7%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.9%). Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are common here: 99%, more than in just over four fifths of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 61%, a higher share than 96% 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: 95% of Upton St Leonards · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
32% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. In Upton St Leonards, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 99% of UK towns: 20%
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 number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 30. Unpaid carers are more common here than in 84% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 39%
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 Upton St Leonards, 13%, while 39% hold one at degree level (34%).
Every nearby town is younger than Upton St Leonards
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upton St Leonards | 1,132 | — | 55.5 | 36% | 19% |
| Brockworth | 12,007 | 1.6 mi | 35.6 | 14% | 34% |
| Gloucester | 118,562 | 1.8 mi | 39.5 | 17% | 28% |
| Painswick | 1,833 | 3.3 mi | 55.4 | 36% | 19% |
| Churchdown | 13,480 | 3.7 mi | 43.4 | 21% | 28% |
| Quedgeley and Hardwicke | 21,125 | 3.7 mi | 35.9 | 12% | 34% |
| Longford | 2,536 | 3.7 mi | 33.7 | 10% | 36% |
| Shurdington | 1,888 | 4.1 mi | 48.9 | 29% | 26% |
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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 Upton St Leonards’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 Upton St Leonards’s residents
What is the population of Upton St Leonards?
The 2021 Census counted 1,132 people in Upton St Leonards’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Upton St Leonards?
The median age was 55.5 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 36% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Upton St Leonards?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Upton St Leonards?
32% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Upton St Leonards good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Upton St Leonards’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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