Photo: Bob Embleton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Westfield is over 59.4
The share of households with dependent children trails 96% of UK towns: 19%. Westfield is home to 775 residents in 349 households, by the 2021 Census. Households in detached houses account for 87%. One-person households are rarer here than in 97% of UK towns.
Westfield sits above 99% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (39%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: 11% of residents, 2.2 times the share across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 7.9%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 83% of UK towns: 4% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 50% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 12% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 8% in Westfield.
2.2 people per household, fewer than in 73% 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, 2.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Westfield sits below 99% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (1.4%)
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
4.3% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 85% of UK towns: 99%
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
Residents born outside the UK: 5% here and 18% across England’s towns. For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.9%) and in Africa (1.7%).
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 92% of UK towns: 59%
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 Westfield · Herefordshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Westfield has 94%. Here, just over a third of residents said they have no religion. Typically, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns: 62%
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
Some 19 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 21% here, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Compared with 8.7% across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care here.
Degree-level qualifications reach 47% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 47% of Westfield’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 10% have no qualification (18%).
The towns around Westfield are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westfield | 775 | — | 59.4 | 39% | 19% |
| Colwall Stone | 1,857 | 3.3 mi | 57.3 | 37% | 18% |
| Great Malvern | 33,194 | 3.5 mi | 49 | 27% | 22% |
| Malvern Wells | 1,757 | 4.3 mi | 54.8 | 33% | 20% |
| Ledbury | 8,344 | 5.8 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 20% |
| Welland | 1,309 | 6.3 mi | 46.9 | 25% | 32% |
| Collett's Green | 1,542 | 6.4 mi | 45 | 22% | 32% |
| Bromyard | 3,816 | 6.7 mi | 49.4 | 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 Westfield’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 Westfield’s residents
What is the population of Westfield?
The 2021 Census counted 775 people in Westfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Westfield?
The median age was 59.4 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 39% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Westfield?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Herefordshire’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Westfield?
34% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Westfield good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Westfield’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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