Photo: Martyn Pattison · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Sheet is over 54.9
With shared households of unrelated adults at 0.7%, Sheet is behind 99% of UK towns on that count. At the 2021 Census Sheet was home to 321 people in 149 households. Households with dependent children account for 19%. More households in terraced houses than in 87% of UK towns: 32%.
More residents aged 65 and over than 82% of UK towns: 27%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 13% of residents, 1.9 times the share across England’s towns. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Here, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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 99% of UK towns: 4.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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 Sheet, 45% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 13% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For Sheet, the census puts full-time students at 6.6%. As a reference point, just over one in ten 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.
Households here average 2.1 people, below 88% 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 are one person living alone, against 30% across England’s towns.
In Sheet, 4.6% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
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
36% of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. The share of households without a car or van across England’s towns is 24%.
Sheet sits above 97% of UK towns for 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.9%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.9%). Against that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Fewer residents born outside the UK than in 54% of UK towns: 5.9%.
97% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 96% 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: 97% of Sheet · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
36% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Here, 58% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 96% 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
Set against 39% across England’s towns, 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Sheet. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 5. 9.1% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 58% of UK towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 48%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Sheet counts 48% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 6.9% have no qualification (18%). A levels are as far as 13% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
No nearby town is as old as Sheet
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheet | 321 | — | 54.9 | 27% | 19% |
| Petersfield | 14,994 | 0.9 mi | 46.4 | 25% | 26% |
| Hill Brow and Rake | 1,200 | 2.4 mi | 53 | 32% | 30% |
| Liss | 4,749 | 2.5 mi | 47.4 | 24% | 27% |
| Whitehill | 5,178 | 6.4 mi | 43.6 | 19% | 26% |
| Clanfield | 1,254 | 6.4 mi | 53.9 | 31% | 24% |
| Liphook | 7,128 | 6.6 mi | 43.3 | 21% | 31% |
| Bordon | 9,349 | 7.2 mi | 35.3 | 11% | 35% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Sheet’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 Sheet’s residents
What is the population of Sheet?
The 2021 Census counted 321 people in Sheet’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Sheet?
The median age was 54.9 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Sheet?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Sheet?
36% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Sheet good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Sheet’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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