Photo: Peter Facey · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns: 2.3%
4.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (England’s towns: 12%). Here, nearly three quarters of households live in a detached house. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 98% of UK towns. Upham had 335 residents and 130 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 48.4.
A median age of 48.4: Upham is older than 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Upham comes in at 22%. 45–49 is the most common age band: 11% of residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 116 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Upham ranks below 99% of UK towns on full-time students: 2.6%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year are about as common here as across England’s towns: 11%. The usual figure: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Fewer one-person households than 93% of UK towns: 23%
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.
Here 5.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across England’s towns is 4.3%. As a reference point, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The average household has 2.5 people.
Few flats: only 3% of households in Upham live in one
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 are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The benchmark for households in flats across England’s towns: 23%.
8% born outside the UK, more than in 64% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (3.3%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.4%). Against that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The figure for residents whose main language is English is 98% in Upham and 90% across England’s towns.
Above 99% of UK towns: 70% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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 Upham · Hampshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British tops 69% of UK towns: 94%. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners: 64%, a higher share than 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
4 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 92% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care; in Upham, 6.8%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 57%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Upham’s adults: 57% with a degree-level qualification and 9.5% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Upham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upham | 335 | — | 48.4 | 22% | 27% |
| Bishop's Waltham | 6,957 | 2.1 mi | 48.7 | 28% | 24% |
| Horton Heath | 3,047 | 3.5 mi | 41 | 13% | 34% |
| Colden Common | 3,827 | 3.6 mi | 44.1 | 22% | 30% |
| Waltham Chase | 2,830 | 3.6 mi | 43.7 | 20% | 30% |
| Swanmore | 3,113 | 3.8 mi | 45.8 | 22% | 33% |
| Twyford | 1,482 | 4.3 mi | 44.7 | 22% | 33% |
| Botley | 5,900 | 4.3 mi | 36.9 | 17% | 35% |
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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 Upham’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 Upham’s residents
What is the population of Upham?
The 2021 Census counted 335 people in Upham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Upham?
The median age was 48.4 at the 2021 Census. 4.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Upham?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Hampshire’s towns. 8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Upham?
25% said they had no religion and 70% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Upham good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Upham’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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