Photo: Jeff Gogarty · CC BY-SA 2.0Kington ranks above 99% of UK towns on one-person households: 40%
20% of households have dependent children; across England’s towns the figure is 29%. The 2021 Census counted 2,423 residents in 1,165 households. Married adults and civil partners account for 39%. On households in terraced houses, Kington sits higher than just over three quarters of UK towns: 27%.
What the Census says about Kington’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Kington’s residents are under 50.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Kington is older than 86% of UK towns: a median age of 50.3
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
28% of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Across Kington, 9.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
Below 88% of UK towns: 3.9% of adults are full-time students
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%.
There is little gap on residents who moved in within the year: 11%, about the same as across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, full-time students come to 7.9%.
2 people per household, fewer than in 97% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Kington comes in at 1.8%.
A larger share of households in flats than 76% of UK towns: 17%
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
Across England’s towns, 24% of households have no car or van; in Kington, 18%. The usual figure: 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. Census figures put households in detached houses at 27% in the village.
Residents whose main language is English make up 95% in Kington, less than in 80% 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
Born abroad and arrived since 2017: 20% of that group, against 21% across England’s towns. Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison. Here, nearly one in ten residents were born outside the UK.
Below 58% of UK towns: 91% of residents describe themselves as White British
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: 91% of Kington · Herefordshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (6.2%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Indian (0.4%). Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White British come to 73%. Half of residents describe themselves as Christian; across England’s towns the figure is 46%.
35% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 66% 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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 64. The share of adults who have never married across England’s towns is 39%. Compared with other places, unpaid carers are scarce here: 9%, fewer than in three fifths of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 28% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 28% of adults in Kington (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 22% (England’s towns: 18%).
The towns around Kington are all older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kington | 2,423 | — | 50.3 | 28% | 20% |
| Presteigne | 1,929 | 4.7 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 20% |
| Weobley | 1,273 | 7.4 mi | 56.2 | 36% | 20% |
| Knighton | 2,911 | 9.6 mi | 51.1 | 30% | 19% |
| Hay-on-Wye | 2,065 | 10 mi | 53.8 | 33% | 18% |
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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 Kington’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 Kington’s residents
What is the population of Kington?
The 2021 Census counted 2,423 people in Kington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Kington?
The median age was 50.3 at the 2021 Census. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Kington?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Herefordshire’s towns. 8.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Kington?
41% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 7.6% didn’t answer.
Is Kington good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Kington’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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