Photo: Dave Croker · CC BY-SA 2.0Bromyard: 39% of households are one person living alone, above 98% of UK towns
The share of households with dependent children trails 89% of UK towns: 22%. Residents aged 15 to 24: nearly a tenth of the total. At 17%, the share of households in flats is higher than in 75% of UK towns. Bromyard had 3,816 residents and 1,858 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 49.4 (older than 82% of UK towns).
What the Census says about Bromyard’s people
Many older residents
29% of residents were 65 or over in 2021, more than in 89% of UK towns; 21% of households are someone 66 or over living alone. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over make up 29% in Bromyard, more than in 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Bromyard’s residents are over 49.4, older than in 82% of UK towns. To put it in context, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Ledbury, the oldest of Herefordshire’s towns by this measure, it is 31%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Bromyard, 49.4. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Bromyard sits below 95% of UK towns for full-time students (3.5%)
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 Bromyard, just over a quarter of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 31% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Here, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households here average 2 people, below 98% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Herefordshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Here 1.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across England’s towns is 4.3%.
In Bromyard, 18% of households have no car or van, more than in 63% 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
Terraced houses are home to 23% of households, against 24% across England’s towns. Locally, 27% of households live in a detached house. Every 6th household or so has no car or van.
In Bromyard, 96% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 73% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Bromyard has 7.5%. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (5.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1%). Set beside that, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
In Bromyard, 51% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 59% 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: 92% of Bromyard · Herefordshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 37% across England’s towns, 40% of residents said they have no religion here. Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 46% across England’s towns. Next after White British come Other White (5.2%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Indian (0.7%).
Bromyard sits below 58% of UK towns for adults who have never married (31%)
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
Married adults and civil partners are about as common here as across England’s towns: 44%. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 105 residents. As a yardstick, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
27% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 27% of adults in Bromyard, 34% across England’s towns; 23% have no qualification, against 18%.
Ranked by age, 145th oldest of 530 UK towns this size
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 Bailrigg (18.9), the youngest, and Milford on Sea (64.6), the oldest. Nearest to Bromyard in age: Ellesmere (49.4), Barton-under-Needwood (49.4), Eaton Bray and Edlesborough (49.4) and Greasbrough (49.5).
Older than Bromyard: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromyard | 3,816 | — | 49.4 | 29% | 22% |
| Tenbury Wells | 3,936 | 9 mi | 50.8 | 30% | 24% |
| Great Malvern | 33,194 | 9.5 mi | 49 | 27% | 22% |
| Colwall Stone | 1,857 | 10 mi | 57.3 | 37% | 18% |
| Bartestree | 1,655 | 10 mi | 43.6 | 16% | 31% |
| Lower Broadheath | 1,889 | 10.1 mi | 48.7 | 25% | 29% |
| Leominster | 11,206 | 10.3 mi | 44.9 | 25% | 25% |
| Rushwick | 1,195 | 10.5 mi | 45.6 | 27% | 32% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Herefordshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Herefordshire (or England), summed the same way as Bromyard’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 Bromyard’s residents
What is the population of Bromyard?
The 2021 Census counted 3,816 people in Bromyard’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bromyard?
The median age was 49.4 at the 2021 Census, older than 82% of UK towns. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bromyard?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Herefordshire’s towns. 7.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bromyard?
40% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 7.7% didn’t answer.
Is Bromyard good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bromyard’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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