Photo: Alan Pascoe · CC BY-SA 3.0Households without a car or van: 11%, a lower share than 78% of UK towns
Where 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, Tadley has 45%. This Hampshire town had 14,767 residents and 6,263 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 45.4 (older than 57% of UK towns). The share of one-person households stands at 28%. On married adults and civil partners, Tadley sits higher than 72% of UK towns: 52%.
Slower than most: +3% since 2011, behind 72% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Tadley’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 14,000 people in 2011; 14,400 in 2024.
The 65 and over age group changed most (+38%) and the 16 to 29 least (−8%). In one year, mid-2013 to mid-2014, the population rose by 120, the most of any year.
Fewer young people than 67% of UK towns: 9.2% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Tadley is 45.4, higher than in 57% of UK towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 8% of residents. In Barton on Sea, the oldest of Hampshire’s towns by this measure, it is 51%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Tadley, 45.4. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
Tadley sits below 93% of UK towns for full-time students (3.6%)
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 Tadley, 40% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 20% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are scarce here: 8%, fewer than in 66% of UK towns. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bigger households than 66% of UK towns: 2.3 people each 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.
Families with dependent children are 27% of households (England’s towns 29%), and 14% are someone 66 or over living alone (Hampshire’s towns 13%). Here, 2.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Only 9% of households live in a flat or apartment in Tadley
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 24% across England’s towns, 23% of households live in a terraced house in Tadley. Households in detached houses account for 32%.
Above 56% of UK towns: 7% of residents were born outside the UK
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Where just over a fifth of those born abroad across England’s towns arrived in 2017 or later, here the share is 11%. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.1%) and in Africa (1.4%). The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%.
Fewer residents who describe themselves as Christian than 65% of UK towns: 47%
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: 92% of Tadley · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 92%, against 73% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. The largest groups after White British are Other White (3.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.9%) and Indian (0.5%).
Adults who have never married: 30%, a lower share than 65% 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
For 310 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. On unpaid carers, Tadley sits lower than 64% of UK towns: 8.9%. Against that, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
31% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Tadley’s adults: 31% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
From a median age of 43 in Tadley West to 48 in Tadley East, Pamber & Silchester
The town’s 3 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Tadley East, Pamber & Silchester is the oldest area, with 25% aged 65 or over; Tadley West the youngest (median age 43). Families with children are most common in Tadley West (29% of households).
148th highest median age among 384 UK towns of 10,000 to 20,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Aberystwyth (25), the youngest, and Sidmouth (60.4), the oldest. Nearest to Tadley in age: Bolsover (45.3), Barton-upon-Humber (45.4), Chepstow (45.4) and Shaw (45.5).
4 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Tadley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tadley | 14,767 | — | 45.4 | 22% | 27% |
| Mortimer | 2,932 | 3.6 mi | 47.3 | 24% | 29% |
| Bramley | 4,730 | 4.1 mi | 39.2 | 14% | 37% |
| Kingsclere | 2,889 | 4.7 mi | 49.1 | 25% | 23% |
| Burghfield Common | 6,216 | 4.7 mi | 42.8 | 18% | 35% |
| Sherfield on Loddon | 1,385 | 5.4 mi | 52.2 | 28% | 23% |
| Upper Bucklebury | 1,036 | 5.5 mi | 47.5 | 24% | 32% |
| Thatcham | 25,537 | 6 mi | 41.1 | 16% | 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 Tadley’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Tadley’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 14,214 people in 2021, against 14,767 in the built-up area.
- 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 Tadley’s residents
What is the population of Tadley?
The 2021 Census counted 14,767 people in Tadley’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 14,400 people in mid-2024, 3% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Tadley?
The median age was 45.4 at the 2021 Census, older than 57% of UK towns. 9.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tadley?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tadley?
45% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Tadley good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Tadley West (29% of households). Schools are on Tadley’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024 · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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