Photo: Chewedpuppp · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 53.5: Longstock is older than 94% of UK towns
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 287 residents and 118 households in Longstock. One-person households: nearly a fifth of the total. The figure for households without a car or van is 4.2% in Longstock and 24% across England’s towns.
Fewer young people than 99% of UK towns: 6.6% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9.7% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Higher than in 86% of UK towns: 28% of residents are 65 or over. Across the comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
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. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
16% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 97% 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%.
Where 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns, Longstock has 4.1%. As a reference point, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Households with dependent children make up 24% in Longstock, less than in 81% 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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 5.9%.
Below 97% of UK towns: 5.9% of households live in a terraced house
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
Against a figure of 21% across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Longstock comes in at 52%. The share of households in terraced houses across England’s towns is 24%.
100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 5.2% in Longstock. The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.8%) and in Africa (1.4%). Across England’s towns, nine in ten residents have English as their main language.
Fewer residents with no religion than 97% of UK towns: 26%
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: 97% of Longstock · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, against 97% in Longstock. Across the comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. The census found that 69% of residents describe themselves as Christian locally.
67% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 99% 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
Adults who have never married make up 20%, against 39% across England’s towns. 6.3% of residents give unpaid care. For married adults and civil partners, the comparison across England’s towns is 44%.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 39%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 39% of adults in Longstock (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 14% (England’s towns: 18%).
The towns around Longstock are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longstock | 287 | — | 53.5 | 28% | 24% |
| King's Somborne | 1,206 | 3.8 mi | 50.7 | 27% | 24% |
| Anna Valley and Upper Clatford | 1,557 | 4.3 mi | 47.6 | 22% | 27% |
| Andover | 48,484 | 5.5 mi | 38.9 | 16% | 31% |
| Charlton | 2,121 | 6.2 mi | 48.8 | 27% | 24% |
| Picket Piece | 2,329 | 6.5 mi | 31.2 | 5.8% | 51% |
| Littleton | 1,506 | 6.9 mi | 35 | 19% | 26% |
| South Wonston | 2,686 | 7 mi | 45.1 | 22% | 31% |
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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 Longstock’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 Longstock’s residents
What is the population of Longstock?
The 2021 Census counted 287 people in Longstock’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Longstock?
The median age was 53.5 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Longstock?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 5.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Longstock?
26% said they had no religion and 69% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.8% didn’t answer.
Is Longstock good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Longstock’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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