Photo: Chris Downer · CC BY-SA 2.0Hyde is older than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 59.4
Nearly nine in ten households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. Locally, 2.5% of households live in a flat or apartment. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 97% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 270 residents and 121 households in Hyde.
Hyde sits above 99% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (39%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 7%, against 12% across England’s towns. Typically, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 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.
Below 91% of UK towns: 3.7% of adults are full-time students
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%.
In Hyde, half of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 7.8% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Locally, 6.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Fewer one-person households than 95% of UK towns: 22%
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 3.3% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. On average, 2.2 people share a household.
Hyde ranks below 99% of UK towns on households in terraced houses: 1.6%
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
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 8.1% of households have no car or van here.
Hyde sits above 99% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (100%)
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%; Hyde has 4.1%. The wider picture: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.2%) and in Africa (0.7%).
Hyde sits below 89% of UK towns for residents with no religion (32%)
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 Hyde · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 57% in Hyde and 46% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Locally, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Above 99% of UK towns: 70% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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
16% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership (England’s towns: 39%). Compared with other places, unpaid carers are common here: 14%, more than in 99% of UK towns. The wider picture: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 10 residents.
47% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Hyde counts 47% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 12% have no qualification (18%).
Hyde is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde | 270 | — | 59.4 | 39% | 18% |
| Fordingbridge | 4,947 | 1.9 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 23% |
| Sandleheath | 1,546 | 2.5 mi | 52.7 | 31% | 26% |
| Alderholt | 2,868 | 3 mi | 50.4 | 25% | 27% |
| Ringwood | 12,789 | 4.1 mi | 47 | 26% | 26% |
| Hightown | 1,296 | 4.6 mi | 48.4 | 23% | 30% |
| Verwood | 13,706 | 5.4 mi | 49 | 28% | 26% |
| Redlynch and Woodfalls | 2,446 | 5.5 mi | 53.4 | 31% | 24% |
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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 Hyde’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 Hyde’s residents
What is the population of Hyde?
The 2021 Census counted 270 people in Hyde’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hyde?
The median age was 59.4 at the 2021 Census. 7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 39% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hyde?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 4.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hyde?
32% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 11% didn’t answer.
Is Hyde good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hyde’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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