Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 89% of UK towns: half of Wick is over 50.8
3.2% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Wick counted 1,579 residents and 669 households at the 2021 Census. The census found that nearly a quarter of households have dependent children here. Households in terraced houses are rarer here than in 87% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Wick’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Wick’s residents are under 50.8 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 27% 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).
Only 8.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Wick
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 27%, above 82% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of full-time students than 91% of UK towns, at 3.7%
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%.
By class, 36% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 21% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 4.5% in Wick. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 27% of households are one person living alone in Wick
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.
4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, against 2.8% in Wick. As a yardstick, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. There are 2.4 people in the average household.
A lower share of households without a car or van than 82% of UK towns, at 10%
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
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 35% of households live in a detached house in Wick. Elsewhere, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 69% of UK towns, at 4.6%
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1%). Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in nearly three fifths of UK towns.
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 86% 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: 96% of Wick · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
With residents who describe themselves as Christian at 53%, Wick is ahead of 71% of UK towns on that count. The wider picture: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.2%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Indian (0.3%). The village has fewer residents with no religion than 58% of UK towns, at 40%.
Married adults and civil partners make up 54% in Wick, more than in 86% 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
With adults who have never married at 27%, Wick is behind 83% of UK towns on that count. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On the census count, one in ten residents give unpaid care.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 30% of Wick’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 16% have no qualification (18%).
Median age: 2 of the 7 towns around Wick 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wick | 1,579 | — | 50.8 | 27% | 24% |
| Pucklechurch | 2,702 | 2 mi | 47 | 23% | 25% |
| Kingswood and Fishponds | 160,280 | 3.3 mi | 39.2 | 17% | 29% |
| Saltford | 4,133 | 4 mi | 51.6 | 29% | 25% |
| Keynsham | 19,257 | 4.3 mi | 41.3 | 22% | 27% |
| Marshfield | 1,299 | 4.8 mi | 51.1 | 26% | 25% |
| Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne | 14,969 | 5.3 mi | 47.1 | 25% | 29% |
| Newton St Loe | 1,372 | 5.7 mi | 18.8 | 3.2% | 19% |
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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 Wick’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 Wick’s residents
What is the population of Wick?
The 2021 Census counted 1,579 people in Wick’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wick?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wick?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wick?
40% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Wick good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wick’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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