Photo: Prichardson · Public domainA median age of 52.6: Winchcombe is older than 93% of UK towns
54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 44% across England’s towns. Winchcombe counted 4,339 residents and 2,046 households at the 2021 Census. One-person households: 34% of the total. Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in 96% of UK towns: 1.4%.
What the Census says about Winchcombe’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Winchcombe’s residents are under 52.6 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 33% 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).
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.6% in Winchcombe, less than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: 9.5% of residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are common here: 33%, more than in 95% of UK towns. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Winchcombe, 52.6. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
Below 96% of UK towns: 3.4% of adults are full-time students
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Winchcombe, 41% and 20%. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%. The census found that nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier in the town.
23% of households have dependent children, below 85% of UK towns
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, households average 2.4 people; in Winchcombe, 2.1. For comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
A higher share of households in detached houses than 69% of UK towns, at 36%
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
21% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. The share of households without a car or van stands at 14%.
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 72% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The largest groups were born in EU countries (3.2%) and in Africa (1%). Against that, 90% of 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 8.2%.
Winchcombe ranks above 73% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 53%
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: 94% of Winchcombe · Gloucestershire’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British tops 63% of UK towns: 94%. In Winchcombe, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Winchcombe sits below 94% of UK towns for adults who have never married (25%)
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
Winchcombe sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 8.9%, about the same as across England’s towns. Some 100 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. On average, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Among adults, 40% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 40% of adults in Winchcombe, 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification, against 18%.
74th oldest of 695 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe the oldest (64.7). Nearest to Winchcombe in age: Rye (52.5), Long Sutton (52.6), Wareham (52.6) and Gresford (52.6).
Around Winchcombe, 1 of 7 towns have a higher 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winchcombe | 4,339 | — | 52.6 | 33% | 23% |
| Gotherington | 1,131 | 3.7 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 27% |
| Bishop's Cleeve | 16,323 | 3.9 mi | 41.9 | 21% | 30% |
| Prestbury | 4,078 | 4.3 mi | 51.1 | 31% | 23% |
| Ashchurch | 1,102 | 6.4 mi | 38.7 | 19% | 29% |
| Cheltenham | 115,941 | 6.5 mi | 40.1 | 19% | 25% |
| Northway | 4,858 | 7.1 mi | 42.2 | 19% | 26% |
| Broadway | 2,719 | 7.4 mi | 56.5 | 37% | 16% |
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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 Winchcombe’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 Winchcombe’s residents
What is the population of Winchcombe?
The 2021 Census counted 4,339 people in Winchcombe’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Winchcombe?
The median age was 52.6 at the 2021 Census, older than 93% of UK towns. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Winchcombe?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Gloucestershire’s towns. 6.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Winchcombe?
39% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Winchcombe good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Winchcombe’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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