Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Ashurst is over 54.4, older than 96% of UK towns
The share of households in terraced houses trails 99% of UK towns: 3.1%. Ashurst’s 1,001 households held 2,370 residents at the 2021 Census. Households without a car or van account for 6.9%. Few places have so few one-person households: 22% here, fewer than in 95% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Ashurst’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Ashurst’s residents are under 54.4 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 32% 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).
More residents aged 65 and over than 93% of UK towns: 32%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.5%, below 86% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 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 an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 65% of UK towns: 8%
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%.
4.6% of adults are full-time students, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Against that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
24% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 81% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Hampshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The average household has 2.4 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 2.3%. Across the comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
More households in detached houses than 99% of UK towns: 82%
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 23% across England’s towns, 3% of households live in a flat or apartment in Ashurst. To put it in context, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Ashurst: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 97% 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
Of residents born abroad, 4.3% arrived in 2017 or later, against 21% across England’s towns. For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. Locally, 5.1% of residents were born outside the UK.
A higher White British share than 75% of UK towns: 95% of residents
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 Ashurst · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (2.2%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and Pakistani (0.3%). The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%. 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 72% of UK towns. Set against 37% across England’s towns, 40% of residents said they have no religion in Ashurst.
Married adults and civil partners make up 63% in Ashurst, more than in 99% 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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 76. Measured more widely, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 21% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, a lower share than in 99% of UK towns. The figure for unpaid carers is 11% in Ashurst and 8.7% across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 38% of adults in Ashurst (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 13% (England’s towns: 18%).
Ashurst is younger than 1 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashurst | 2,370 | — | 54.4 | 32% | 24% |
| Totton | 28,093 | 1.6 mi | 43.7 | 20% | 28% |
| Cadnam and Bartley | 2,023 | 2.4 mi | 55 | 34% | 21% |
| Marchwood | 5,776 | 2.9 mi | 41.5 | 18% | 30% |
| Lyndhurst | 2,462 | 3.1 mi | 53.9 | 32% | 20% |
| Rownhams and Nursling | 4,796 | 4.2 mi | 46.3 | 23% | 29% |
| Hythe and Dibden Purlieu | 19,857 | 5.5 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 24% |
| Southampton | 249,633 | 5.5 mi | 34.7 | 14% | 27% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Hampshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Hampshire (or England), summed the same way as Ashurst’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 Ashurst’s residents
What is the population of Ashurst?
The 2021 Census counted 2,370 people in Ashurst’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ashurst?
The median age was 54.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ashurst?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 5.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ashurst?
40% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Ashurst good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ashurst’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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