The Elms Including Front Garden Wall, Gate Piers and Gates · Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.054% of residents said they have no religion, a share 97% of UK towns don’t reach
Half of Havant’s residents are under 40, younger than in 80% of UK towns. On the census count, 34% of households live in a terraced house. The town had 46,964 residents in 19,420 households at the 2021 Census. Households in detached houses: 15%, below 85% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Havant’s people
More with no religion than most
54% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 39% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Faster growth than 51% of UK towns: Havant changed by +8% since 2011
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Havant’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 45,900 people in 2011; 49,500 in 2024.
By age, the 30 to 44 group changed most (+20%) and the 16 to 29 group least (−7%). The biggest one-year rise was mid-2023 to mid-2024, 760 people.
Havant sits above 80% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (11%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 7.2% of residents. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in just over three quarters of UK towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. In Barton on Sea, the oldest of Hampshire’s towns by this measure, it is 51%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Havant, 40. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 65% of UK towns, at 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%.
By class, just over a quarter of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 30% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. Census figures put full-time students at 4.9% in Havant.
Bigger households than 79% of UK towns: 2.4 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.
Compared with 29% across England’s towns, 30% of households have dependent children here. The census found that 3.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Havant. On one-person households, Havant sits lower than 63% of UK towns: 28%.
More households in flats than 86% of UK towns: 21%
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
With households without a car or van at 23%, Havant is ahead of 83% of UK towns on that count.
Below 51% of UK towns: 6.2% of residents were born outside the UK
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 two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.5%). Residents born outside the UK: 18% across England’s towns, for comparison. Since 2017: 15% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns.
A lower share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 93% of UK towns, at 39%
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: 93% of Havant · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Havant has 93%. Elsewhere, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Indian (0.7%).
Only 42% of adults are married or in a civil partnership in Havant
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
The share of unpaid carers is 9.7%, against 8.7% across England’s towns. The census found that 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Havant. Measured more widely, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 23% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Havant, 23% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 23% have no qualification at all (18%).
From a median age of 35 in Leigh Park to 46 in Central Havant & Langstone
The town’s 6 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Central Havant & Langstone is the oldest area, with 24% aged 65 or over; Leigh Park the youngest (median age 35). Families with children are most common in Leigh Park (37% of households).
52nd youngest of 151 UK towns of 33,000 to 63,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Canterbury (27.5) and the oldest Rustington (56.2). Nearest to Havant in age: Dover (40), Yeovil (40), Royal Tunbridge Wells (40.1) and Bishop's Stortford (40.2).
Every neighbour of Havant has an older population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havant | 46,964 | — | 40 | 18% | 30% |
| Rowlands Castle | 2,969 | 2 mi | 52.4 | 28% | 21% |
| Waterlooville | 34,766 | 2.1 mi | 44.4 | 22% | 26% |
| Emsworth | 11,512 | 2.3 mi | 54.1 | 33% | 20% |
| Westbourne | 1,938 | 2.7 mi | 46.9 | 23% | 27% |
| Stoke | 1,267 | 3.2 mi | 57.5 | 36% | 18% |
| Horndean | 34,046 | 3.4 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 27% |
| Southbourne | 4,150 | 3.5 mi | 49.2 | 29% | 25% |
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 Havant’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Havant’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 47,645 people in 2021, against 46,964 in the built-up area.
- 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 Havant’s residents
What is the population of Havant?
The 2021 Census counted 46,964 people in Havant’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 49,500 people in mid-2024, 8% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Havant?
The median age was 40 at the 2021 Census, younger than 80% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 18% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Havant?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 6.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Havant?
54% said they had no religion and 39% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Havant good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Leigh Park (37% of households). Schools are on Havant’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024 · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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