Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns: 2.6%
Against a figure of 12% across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 in Long Sutton comes in at 17%. The village’s 157 households held 565 residents at the 2021 Census. On the census count, 54% of households live in a detached house. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 32%, fewer than in 90% of UK towns.
Below 87% of UK towns: 16% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 41.9, Long Sutton is younger than 70% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Barton on Sea, the oldest of Hampshire’s towns by this measure, it is 51%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
13% of adults are full-time students, more than in 98% 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%.
Leave the students aside and Long Sutton’s other adults differ from England’s: 60% are in managerial and professional jobs, against 36%. Residents who moved in within the year are more common here than in 96% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Below 97% of UK towns: 21% of households are one person living alone
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: 1.9% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. On average, 2.4 people share a household. Long Sutton has fewer households with dependent children than 67% of UK towns, at 25%. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns.
A smaller share of households in flats than 97% of UK towns: 2%
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
Households in terraced houses make up 8.6%, against 24% across England’s towns. The benchmark for households in flats across England’s towns: 23%.
Long Sutton ranks above 78% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.7%) or in the Middle East and Asia (2.5%). More residents born outside the UK than in three fifths of UK towns: 7.5%. For comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 58%, a higher share than 91% 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: 89% of Long Sutton · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Mixed or multiple (3.4%), Other White (2.8%) and Chinese (1.1%). For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%. Nearly nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British, a lower share than in 67% of UK towns.
Long Sutton: 60% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 98% 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
Long Sutton sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 8%, about the same as across England’s towns. Adults who have never married account for 29%. Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Degree-level qualifications reach 55% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Long Sutton counts 55% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 5.5% have no qualification (18%). A levels are as far as 12% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Median age: 5 of the 7 towns around Long Sutton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Sutton | 565 | — | 41.9 | 16% | 25% |
| Bentley | 1,406 | 2.7 mi | 47 | 25% | 34% |
| Odiham | 5,091 | 2.8 mi | 38.8 | 19% | 31% |
| Crondall | 1,220 | 3.3 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 31% |
| Holybourne | 1,304 | 3.5 mi | 46.9 | 23% | 24% |
| Alton | 17,883 | 4.7 mi | 44.4 | 22% | 26% |
| Wrecclesham | 7,312 | 5.1 mi | 45.3 | 22% | 33% |
| Hook | 9,062 | 5.2 mi | 40.9 | 16% | 34% |
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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 Long Sutton’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 Long Sutton’s residents
What is the population of Long Sutton?
The 2021 Census counted 565 people in Long Sutton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Long Sutton?
The median age was 41.9 at the 2021 Census. 17% of residents were 15 to 24 and 16% were 65 or over.
Is Long Sutton a student village?
Yes: 13% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 Census (56 people), against 7.9% across England’s towns.
How diverse is Long Sutton?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 7.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Long Sutton?
32% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.1% were Muslim and 8.2% didn’t answer.
Is Long Sutton good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Long Sutton’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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