Photo: Nick Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Adisham ranks below 95% of UK towns on one-person households: 22%
Unpaid carers make up 11% of residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Adisham has fewer households without a car or van than 91% of UK towns, at 8.1%. At the 2021 Census Adisham was home to 655 people in 264 households. Locally, 16% of residents are 65 or over.
13% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 94% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 60–64: nearly one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Half of Adisham’s residents are over 45.5, older than in 58% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A larger share of full-time students than 93% of UK towns: 7.5%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year are about as common here as across England’s towns: 11%. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Adisham households average 2.5 people, larger than in 88% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Kent’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Against a figure of 29% across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children in Adisham comes in at 30%. Here, 4.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Adisham ranks below 66% of UK towns on households in flats: 8%
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
33% of households live in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. For Adisham, the census puts households in terraced houses at 22%.
In Adisham, 6.9% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 55% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%. 98% of residents have English as their main language, a lower share than in 52% of UK towns.
A higher White British share than 66% of UK towns: 94% of residents
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 Adisham · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (4.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.8%) and Pakistani (0.2%). Just over half of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 62% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Where 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, Adisham has 43%.
Above 69% of UK towns: 51% of adults are married or in 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
13 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Typically, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Adults who have never married are more common here than in 56% of UK towns.
42% of adults have qualifications at degree level
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 Adisham, 13%, while 42% hold one at degree level (34%). A levels are as far as 16% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Adisham and its 7 nearest towns: 6 of them 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adisham | 655 | — | 45.5 | 16% | 30% |
| Aylesham | 5,788 | 1.1 mi | 33.2 | 12% | 40% |
| Wingham | 1,313 | 2.2 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 25% |
| Littlebourne | 1,596 | 2.5 mi | 49.4 | 28% | 26% |
| Bridge | 1,539 | 3 mi | 52.6 | 32% | 25% |
| Sibertswold | 1,619 | 4.2 mi | 54.3 | 32% | 23% |
| Eythorne | 1,487 | 4.5 mi | 51.6 | 25% | 22% |
| Ash (Dover) | 2,529 | 4.5 mi | 48.4 | 25% | 26% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “Kent’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Kent (or England), summed the same way as Adisham’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 Adisham’s residents
What is the population of Adisham?
The 2021 Census counted 655 people in Adisham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Adisham?
The median age was 45.5 at the 2021 Census. 13% of residents were 15 to 24 and 16% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Adisham?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 6.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Adisham?
43% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Adisham good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Adisham’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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