Photo: Philip Pankhurst · CC BY-SA 2.0Eardisley is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 56.1
Households with dependent children make up 19%, against 29% across England’s towns. On households without a car or van, Eardisley sits lower than 95% of UK towns: 7%. The village’s 273 households held 565 residents at the 2021 Census. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 1.1%.
Below 99% of UK towns: 6.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Just over a third of Eardisley is 65 or over, against 24% across Herefordshire’s towns and 18% across England’s towns. In Ledbury, the oldest of Herefordshire’s towns by this measure, it is 31%.
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.
A smaller share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 2.7%
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%.
Against a figure of 11% across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Eardisley comes in at 9.4%. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Smaller households than 93% of UK towns: 2.1 people on average
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.
One-person households make up 31%, against 30% across England’s towns.
A smaller share of households in flats than 98% of UK towns: 1.5%
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
Where 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Eardisley has 19%. Census figures put households in detached houses at 48% here. Households in flats: 23% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 84% 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 (3.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison. Here 6% of residents were born outside the UK, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%.
Eardisley ranks above 82% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 55%
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 Eardisley · Herefordshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (3.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and Indian (0.2%). Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. At 94%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is higher than in 69% of UK towns. Nothing unusual on residents with no religion: 37%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 94% of UK towns: 25%
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
The share of unpaid carers is 10%, against 8.7% across England’s towns. What’s more, 53% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 81% of UK towns. The wider picture: 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 17.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 38% of adults in Eardisley (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 15% (England’s towns: 18%).
1 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Eardisley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eardisley | 565 | — | 56.1 | 34% | 19% |
| Kington | 2,423 | 4.8 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 20% |
| Weobley | 1,273 | 5.9 mi | 56.2 | 36% | 20% |
| Hay-on-Wye | 2,065 | 6.7 mi | 53.8 | 33% | 18% |
| Presteigne | 1,929 | 9.3 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 20% |
| Credenhill | 2,334 | 9.3 mi | 36.8 | 15% | 39% |
| Kingstone | 1,500 | 10.7 mi | 40.1 | 18% | 33% |
| Clehonger | 1,218 | 11.2 mi | 46.1 | 27% | 25% |
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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 Eardisley’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 Eardisley’s residents
What is the population of Eardisley?
The 2021 Census counted 565 people in Eardisley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Eardisley?
The median age was 56.1 at the 2021 Census. 6.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Eardisley?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Herefordshire’s towns. 6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Eardisley?
37% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 7.1% didn’t answer.
Is Eardisley good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Eardisley’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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