Photo: Bob Embleton · CC BY-SA 2.0Whiteway is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 56.2
Where 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns, Whiteway has 3.5%. At the 2021 Census, 463 people lived locally, in 204 households. Locally, nearly three quarters of households live in a detached house. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in just over four fifths of UK towns.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 34% in Whiteway, more than in 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9.7% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 8.4%. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
Only 3% of adults are full-time students in Whiteway
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%.
43% of Whiteway’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 13% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. In Whiteway, one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Only 24% of households are one person living alone in Whiteway
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 3.9%. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%. There are 2.3 people in the average household.
Only 4.9% of households live in a terraced house in Whiteway
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
Here 4.4% of households live in a flat or apartment, where the figure across England’s towns is 23%. The benchmark for households in terraced houses across England’s towns: 24%.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns, at 100%
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
Residents born outside the UK: 7.1% here and 18% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in Africa (2.8%) or in the Middle East and Asia (2.2%).
Above 82% of UK towns: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British
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 Whiteway · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
53% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns. In Whiteway, two in five residents said they have no religion. Elsewhere, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Fewer adults who have never married than 98% of UK towns: 23%
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
7 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. At 56%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 91% of UK towns. The comparison figure for adults who have never married is 39% across England’s towns. The figure for unpaid carers is 10% in Whiteway and 8.7% across England’s towns.
46% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 46% of its adults qualified to degree level, Whiteway compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 11% hold no qualification (18%).
No nearby town is as old as Whiteway
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteway | 463 | — | 56.2 | 34% | 24% |
| Painswick | 1,833 | 3.2 mi | 55.4 | 36% | 19% |
| Brockworth | 12,007 | 4.1 mi | 35.6 | 14% | 34% |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 4.5 mi | 49.6 | 24% | 27% |
| Upton St Leonards | 1,132 | 4.6 mi | 55.5 | 36% | 19% |
| Shurdington | 1,888 | 5.2 mi | 48.9 | 29% | 26% |
| Whiteshill and Randwick | 1,442 | 5.4 mi | 51.3 | 26% | 24% |
| Stroud | 26,073 | 5.5 mi | 45.3 | 21% | 25% |
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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 Whiteway’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 Whiteway’s residents
What is the population of Whiteway?
The 2021 Census counted 463 people in Whiteway’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Whiteway?
The median age was 56.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Whiteway?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 7.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Whiteway?
40% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Whiteway good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Whiteway’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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