Photo: Mr Ignavy · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households without a car or van than 97% of UK towns: 6.2%
Across England’s towns, 21% of households live in a detached house; in Hook, 49%. The town has more married adults and civil partners than 86% of UK towns, at 54%. 9,062 residents in 3,674 households: that is Hook at the 2021 Census. For Hook, the census puts households with dependent children at 34%.
What the Census says about Hook’s people
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Hook at 8,300 in 2011 and 10,300 in 2024, up 23%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 90% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
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.
A +23% change since 2011: faster than 90% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Hook’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 8,300 people in 2011; 10,300 in 2024.
The 65 and over group saw the biggest change (+57%), the 45 to 64 group the smallest (+10%). No year added more people than mid-2020 to mid-2021: 500.
Younger than 76% of UK towns: half of Hook is under 40.9
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
By its share of residents aged 65 and over (16%), Hook is below 88% of UK towns. Few places have as many residents aged 15 to 24: 9.9% here, more than in 53% of UK towns. The largest age band is 50–54: 7.6% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Hook, 40.9. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 13% in Hook, more than in 93% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for half of Hook’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 14%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For Hook, the census puts full-time students at 5.5%. By way of comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 23% of households are one person living alone in Hook
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.
Here 2.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across England’s towns is 4.3%. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns. Average household size: 2.5 people.
Hook sits below 67% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (16%)
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
Flats are home to 13% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. The usual figure: nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
In Hook, 12% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 80% 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
Where 21% of those born abroad across England’s towns arrived in 2017 or later, here the share is 15%. Residents whose main language is English account for 96%. Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
86% of residents describe themselves as White British, fewer than in 76% of UK towns
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: 86% of Hook · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents with no religion is 43% in Hook and 37% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. In Hook, 48% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
In Hook, 7.2% of residents give unpaid care, fewer than in 95% 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 care takes 50 hours a week or more for 157 people. Hook has fewer adults who have never married than 64% of UK towns, at 30%. Across the comparison, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns.
Qualified to degree level: 45% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 45% of its adults qualified to degree level, Hook compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 8.9% hold no qualification (18%).
Among 482 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, the 95th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Tidworth is the youngest (28.4); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Hook in age: Yaxley (40.9), Whitnash (40.9), Shotton (40.9) and Mossley (41).
4 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Hook
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hook | 9,062 | — | 40.9 | 16% | 34% |
| Odiham | 5,091 | 2.3 mi | 38.8 | 19% | 31% |
| Hartley Wintney | 3,465 | 2.5 mi | 52.7 | 32% | 23% |
| Old Basing | 3,834 | 3.7 mi | 51 | 27% | 24% |
| Sherfield on Loddon | 1,385 | 3.9 mi | 52.2 | 28% | 23% |
| Elvetham Heath | 4,916 | 4.5 mi | 37 | 6% | 49% |
| Bramley | 4,730 | 5.1 mi | 39.2 | 14% | 37% |
| Fleet | 37,800 | 5.2 mi | 43.6 | 20% | 32% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Hook’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. Hook’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 9,657 people in 2021, against 9,062 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 Hook’s residents
What is the population of Hook?
The 2021 Census counted 9,062 people in Hook’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 10,300 people in mid-2024, 23% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Hook?
The median age was 40.9 at the 2021 Census, younger than 76% of UK towns. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 16% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hook?
86% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 12% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hook?
43% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Hook good for families?
34% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hook’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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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