Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 57.3: Hampton Bishop is older than 98% of UK towns
1.5% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Hampton Bishop counted 334 residents and 131 households at the 2021 Census. Households in detached houses account for 74%. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 66%, more than in 99% of UK towns.
In Hampton Bishop, 34% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, 9.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24 here. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
Hampton Bishop sits above 85% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (11%)
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%.
Full-time students make up 4.7%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Hampton Bishop has 38% and 17%.
Hampton Bishop sits below 98% of UK towns for one-person households (19%)
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.
Hampton Bishop sits close to the norm on shared households of unrelated adults: 3.8%, about the same as across England’s towns. Households with dependent children: 22% of the total. Across the comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
In Hampton Bishop, 4.5% 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
A lower share of residents whose main language is English than 66% of UK towns, at 97%
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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (4.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%). The wider picture: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Residents born outside the UK: 6.3% here and 18% across England’s towns.
Only 29% of residents said they have no religion in Hampton Bishop
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: 95% of Hampton Bishop · Herefordshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (3.9%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Chinese (0.3%). More residents who describe themselves as White British than in just over three quarters of UK towns: 95%. For comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Below 99% of UK towns: 20% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 44% across England’s towns. Here, 10% of residents give unpaid care. Against that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 38%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Hampton Bishop’s adults: 38% with a degree-level qualification and 19% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Hampton Bishop
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Bishop | 334 | — | 57.3 | 34% | 22% |
| Bartestree | 1,655 | 1.9 mi | 43.6 | 16% | 31% |
| Hereford | 60,471 | 3.1 mi | 40.9 | 19% | 27% |
| Clehonger | 1,218 | 6.6 mi | 46.1 | 27% | 25% |
| Credenhill | 2,334 | 7.3 mi | 36.8 | 15% | 39% |
| Kingstone | 1,500 | 8.2 mi | 40.1 | 18% | 33% |
| Ross-on-Wye | 10,993 | 9.1 mi | 49.6 | 29% | 22% |
| Ledbury | 8,344 | 9.3 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 20% |
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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 Hampton Bishop’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 Hampton Bishop’s residents
What is the population of Hampton Bishop?
The 2021 Census counted 334 people in Hampton Bishop’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hampton Bishop?
The median age was 57.3 at the 2021 Census. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hampton Bishop?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Herefordshire’s towns. 6.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hampton Bishop?
29% said they had no religion and 66% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.5% didn’t answer.
Is Hampton Bishop good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hampton Bishop’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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