Photo: David960 · CC BY-SA 2.0A lower share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns, at 4.1%
The share of households in detached houses is 69%, against 21% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census, 703 people lived in Grayshott, in 266 households. On the census count, 18% of households are one person living alone. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 56% here, more than in 92% of UK towns.
Grayshott: 26% of residents are 65 or over, above 77% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
0–4 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. The median age in Grayshott is 46.2, higher than in 63% of UK towns. Against that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Across Grayshott, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
4.2% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 76% of UK towns
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year are about as common here as across England’s towns: 11%. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
Bigger households than 93% of UK towns: 2.5 people each on average
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 share of shared households of unrelated adults is 1.9%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Census figures put households with dependent children at 31% in Grayshott.
Only 6.3% of households live in a terraced house in Grayshott
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
3% of households live in a flat or apartment; across England’s towns the figure is 23%. By way of comparison, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Grayshott: 9.5% of residents were born outside the UK, above 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%; Grayshott has 98%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (4.6%), then in the Middle East and Asia (2%). For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%.
A lower share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 74% of UK towns, at 87%
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: 87% of Grayshott · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Islam is the religion of 2% of residents. Typically, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. At 52%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is higher than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. Still, just over two in five residents said they have no religion (England’s towns: 37%).
A lower share of adults who have never married than 82% of UK towns, at 28%
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
12 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Unpaid carers are rarer here than in 89% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 42%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Grayshott, 19%, while 42% hold one at degree level (34%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Grayshott, 2 are older
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Grayshott’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 Grayshott’s residents
What is the population of Grayshott?
The 2021 Census counted 703 people in Grayshott’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Grayshott?
The median age was 46.2 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Grayshott?
87% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 9.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Grayshott?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 2% were Muslim and 4% didn’t answer.
Is Grayshott good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Grayshott’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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