Photo: Fabian Musto · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 93% of UK towns: half of Tarrington is over 52.7
In Tarrington, just over a fifth of households have dependent children, beside 29% across England’s towns. Adults who have never married account for 27%. One-person households are rarer here than in 79% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Tarrington was home to 530 people in 225 households.
28% of residents are 65 or over, a share 84% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.2%, below 70% of UK towns. On average, 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 87 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.
In Tarrington, 7.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 74% of UK towns
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%.
By its share of full-time students (4.4%), Tarrington is below 69% of UK towns. Measured more widely, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.1% in Tarrington, more than in 79% 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.
Households average 2.3 people. To put it in context, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
A village of detached houses: 46% of households 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
In Tarrington, 17% of households live in a terraced house, beside 24% across England’s towns. On the census count, 11% of households have no car or van. The village has fewer households in flats than 70% of UK towns, at 7.4%. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Only 6.2% of residents were born outside the UK in Tarrington
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 largest groups were born in EU countries (3.6%) and in Africa (1.1%). For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Set against 90% across England’s towns, 98% of residents have English as their main language in Tarrington.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 79% of UK towns: 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: 95% of Tarrington · Herefordshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, Tarrington has 38%. 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 71% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (4.2%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Caribbean (0.2%).
Tarrington sits above 96% of UK towns for unpaid carers (12%)
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
17 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%. At 55%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 89% of UK towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 39%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
39% of Tarrington’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have none (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Tarrington, 2 are 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarrington | 530 | — | 52.7 | 28% | 22% |
| Bartestree | 1,655 | 3.5 mi | 43.6 | 16% | 31% |
| Ledbury | 8,344 | 5.7 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 20% |
| Hereford | 60,471 | 6.8 mi | 40.9 | 19% | 27% |
| Colwall Stone | 1,857 | 8.5 mi | 57.3 | 37% | 18% |
| Bromyard | 3,816 | 8.9 mi | 49.4 | 29% | 22% |
| Malvern Wells | 1,757 | 9.6 mi | 54.8 | 33% | 20% |
| Ross-on-Wye | 10,993 | 10.3 mi | 49.6 | 29% | 22% |
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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 Tarrington’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 Tarrington’s residents
What is the population of Tarrington?
The 2021 Census counted 530 people in Tarrington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tarrington?
The median age was 52.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tarrington?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Herefordshire’s towns. 6.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tarrington?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Tarrington good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Tarrington’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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