Photo: Michael Hill-King · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Dummer is over 53.3, older than 94% of UK towns
6.2% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, households in detached houses are common here: 61%, more than in 97% of UK towns. Dummer counted 344 residents and 145 households at the 2021 Census. For Dummer, the census puts households with dependent children at 17%.
Only 8.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Dummer
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 18% across England’s towns, just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over in Dummer. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
A lower share of full-time students than 93% of UK towns, at 3.6%
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, 5.3% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
Only 23% of households are one person living alone in Dummer
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. For comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 5.5%.
A lower share of households in flats than 94% of UK towns, at 2.8%
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 24% across England’s towns, 7.5% of households have no car or van in Dummer. The comparison figure for households in flats is 23% across England’s towns.
Above 80% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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
Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%; Dummer has 8.1%. Elsewhere, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.9%) and in Africa (2.3%).
Above 82% of UK towns: 56% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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 Dummer · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 95% here and 73% across England’s towns. Lower than in 64% of UK towns: 39% of residents said they have no religion. For comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (3.8%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and African (0.3%).
56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 91% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; in Dummer, 26%. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. The share of unpaid carers stands at 10%.
Degree-level qualifications: 47% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Dummer, 47% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 9.3% have no qualification at all (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Dummer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dummer | 344 | — | 53.3 | 26% | 17% |
| Oakley | 5,264 | 2.8 mi | 50.5 | 30% | 25% |
| Basingstoke | 117,211 | 4.8 mi | 37.8 | 14% | 31% |
| Overton | 4,350 | 4.9 mi | 46.8 | 26% | 27% |
| Old Basing | 3,834 | 6.7 mi | 51 | 27% | 24% |
| Whitchurch | 5,291 | 7.7 mi | 43.6 | 21% | 29% |
| Four Marks | 5,613 | 8.4 mi | 45.2 | 22% | 33% |
| New Alresford | 5,340 | 8.6 mi | 52.8 | 32% | 21% |
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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 Dummer’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 Dummer’s residents
What is the population of Dummer?
The 2021 Census counted 344 people in Dummer’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dummer?
The median age was 53.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dummer?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 8.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dummer?
39% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Dummer good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dummer’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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