Photo: Christine Matthews · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 50.8: Braughing is older than 89% of UK towns
44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns, against 60% in Braughing. The village is home to 966 residents in 400 households, by the 2021 Census. Locally, 7% of households have no car or van. One-person households are rarer here than in just over four fifths of UK towns.
Below 83% of UK towns: 8.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 9.5% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Braughing has more residents aged 65 and over than 63% of UK towns, at 24%.
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.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 87% of UK towns: 6.9%
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%.
In Braughing, 43% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%. For Braughing, the census puts full-time students at 4.5%.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 92% of UK towns: 1.5%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Hertfordshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households in Braughing hold 2.4 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). Shared households of unrelated adults: 4.3% across England’s towns, for comparison. The share of households with dependent children stands at 29%.
Few flats: only 4% of households in Braughing 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
The figure for households in detached houses is 39% in Braughing and 21% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. In Braughing, a fifth of households live in a terraced house.
Above 85% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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 (2.5%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.7%). As a yardstick, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%; Braughing has 6.2%.
Braughing ranks above 88% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 57%
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: 93% of Braughing · Hertfordshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (3.8%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and African (0.9%). On residents with no religion, Braughing sits lower than 70% of UK towns: 37%. Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian. Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 93%, against 73% across England’s towns.
A lower share of adults who have never married than 98% of UK towns, at 23%
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 24 residents. By way of comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 9.7% in Braughing.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 37%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Braughing, 17%, while 37% hold one at degree level (34%).
Every nearby town is younger than Braughing
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braughing | 966 | — | 50.8 | 24% | 29% |
| Puckeridge and Standon | 3,861 | 1.6 mi | 43.6 | 19% | 32% |
| Buntingford | 7,877 | 3.4 mi | 39.7 | 19% | 35% |
| Hadham Cross | 1,275 | 4.5 mi | 45.3 | 23% | 29% |
| Bishop's Stortford | 40,916 | 6 mi | 40.2 | 15% | 33% |
| Walkern | 1,367 | 6.9 mi | 43.8 | 17% | 33% |
| Ware | 19,631 | 7 mi | 41.7 | 18% | 28% |
| Stansted Mountfitchet | 8,629 | 7.1 mi | 40.1 | 16% | 34% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Hertfordshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Hertfordshire (or England), summed the same way as Braughing’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 Braughing’s residents
What is the population of Braughing?
The 2021 Census counted 966 people in Braughing’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Braughing?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Braughing?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across Hertfordshire’s towns. 6.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Braughing?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Braughing good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Braughing’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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