Photo: Pam Brophy · CC BY-SA 2.0Households without a car or van make up 5.9% in Headley, less than in 97% of UK towns
Adults who have never married: 23% here and 39% across England’s towns. Headley had 711 residents in 288 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put households in detached houses at 60% in the village. One-person households are rarer here than in 94% of UK towns.
In Headley, 8.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 79% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Headley is 47.8, higher than in 73% of UK towns. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. 21% of residents are 65 or over. The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Headley, 3.8% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 89% 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%.
Just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, against 9.6% in Headley. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Headley households average 2.4 people, larger than in 79% 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.
28% of households have dependent children, against 29% across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 3.8%.
Fewer flats than 90% of UK towns: 3.6% of households
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
By its share of households in terraced houses (10%), Headley is below 88% of UK towns. Typically, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 77% of UK towns, at 99%
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
By its share of residents born outside the UK (8.5%), Headley is above two thirds of UK towns. Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (2.2%).
Headley sits above 74% of UK towns for residents with no religion (45%)
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: 90% of Headley · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 47%, against 46% across England’s towns. At 90%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is lower than in 63% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents with no religion come to 37%. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (5.5%), Indian (1.1%) and Mixed or multiple (0.8%).
Headley sits above 99% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (63%)
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: 7.5%, below 92% of UK towns. To put it in context, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 13.
43% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 43% of Headley’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification (18%).
Median age: 2 of the 7 towns around Headley are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headley | 711 | — | 47.8 | 21% | 28% |
| Kingsclere | 2,889 | 2.1 mi | 49.1 | 25% | 23% |
| Thatcham | 25,537 | 3.2 mi | 41.1 | 16% | 31% |
| Newbury | 42,262 | 4 mi | 40.6 | 18% | 28% |
| Upper Bucklebury | 1,036 | 4.3 mi | 47.5 | 24% | 32% |
| Tadley | 14,767 | 4.9 mi | 45.4 | 22% | 27% |
| Cold Ash | 2,267 | 5.1 mi | 39.2 | 18% | 31% |
| Woolton Hill and Highclere | 2,755 | 5.3 mi | 48.1 | 23% | 33% |
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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 Headley’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 Headley’s residents
What is the population of Headley?
The 2021 Census counted 711 people in Headley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Headley?
The median age was 47.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Headley?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 8.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Headley?
45% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Headley good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Headley’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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