Photo: Barry Shimmon · CC BY-SA 2.015% of households are one person living alone, below 99% of UK towns
69% of households live in a detached house (England’s towns: 21%). Soberton counted 709 residents and 276 households at the 2021 Census. Here, 7.6% of households live in a terraced house. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 22%, fewer than in 98% of UK towns.
Older than 86% of UK towns: half of Soberton is over 50.3
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Soberton has 10%. Add to that, residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in nearly two thirds of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Above 79% of UK towns: 5.7% 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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Soberton has 53% and 9.3%. Few places have as many residents who moved in within the year: 12% here, more than in 89% of UK towns. The share of full-time students across England’s towns is 7.9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Larger households than 96% of UK towns: 2.6 people on average
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.
On shared households of unrelated adults, 4.4% here is much the same as across England’s towns. Locally, nearly a third of households have dependent children.
4% 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
Set against 23% across England’s towns, 2.2% of households live in a flat or apartment in Soberton. For comparison, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 63% of UK towns: 98%
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
In Soberton, 6.1% of residents were born outside the UK, beside 18% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2%) or in EU countries (1.6%).
57% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 88% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 94% of Soberton · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 94% of residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%. After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (2.4%) and Chinese (0.1%). Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 78% of UK towns.
Soberton: 66% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 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
Unpaid carers make up 6.9% of residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 4.
A degree-level qualification for 52% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 52% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 7.8% hold no qualification (18%).
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Soberton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soberton | 709 | — | 50.3 | 24% | 32% |
| Swanmore | 3,113 | 2.3 mi | 45.8 | 22% | 33% |
| Waltham Chase | 2,830 | 3.4 mi | 43.7 | 20% | 30% |
| Bishop's Waltham | 6,957 | 3.7 mi | 48.7 | 28% | 24% |
| Wickham | 2,170 | 4.4 mi | 48.6 | 29% | 23% |
| Denmead | 6,509 | 4.4 mi | 49.9 | 26% | 24% |
| Clanfield | 1,254 | 5.1 mi | 53.9 | 31% | 24% |
| Horndean | 34,046 | 5.8 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 27% |
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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 Soberton’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 Soberton’s residents
What is the population of Soberton?
The 2021 Census counted 709 people in Soberton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Soberton?
The median age was 50.3 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Soberton?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Soberton?
36% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Soberton good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Soberton’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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