Photo: Bill Henderson · CC BY-SA 2.0Boughton under Blean sits below 81% of UK towns for households without a car or van (10%)
One-person households: 26% here and 30% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Boughton under Blean was home to 2,274 people in 954 households. The census found that 5.8% of households live in a flat or apartment in the village. Higher than in 71% of UK towns: 44% of residents said they have no religion.
A median age of 46.1: Boughton under Blean is older than 62% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Boughton under Blean has 9.7%. On the census count, nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
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.
In Boughton under Blean, 7.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 72% 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 class, 37% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 22% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns: 11%. The share of full-time students stands at 4.8%.
Boughton under Blean households average 2.4 people, larger than in 76% 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.
By its share of shared households of unrelated adults (2.6%), Boughton under Blean is above 63% of UK towns. Census figures put households with dependent children at 28% locally.
A lower share of households in detached houses than 59% of UK towns, at 26%
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
Here a quarter of households live in a terraced house, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. Set beside that, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Boughton under Blean: 98% of residents have English as their main language, above 57% 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
Just over a tenth of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later, against 21% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (3.1%) or in Africa (1%).
In Boughton under Blean, 93% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 55% of UK towns
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 Boughton under Blean · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (3.8%), Mixed or multiple (1.7%) and African (0.4%). Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 73% across England’s towns. Christians make up 50% of residents, against 46% across England’s towns.
Unpaid carers make up 10% in Boughton under Blean, more than in 69% 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
54 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Elsewhere, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Against a figure of 44% across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners in Boughton under Blean comes in at 47%.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 32% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 32% of Boughton under Blean’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification (18%).
Boughton under Blean sits below 2 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boughton under Blean | 2,274 | — | 46.1 | 23% | 28% |
| Faversham | 20,941 | 3.4 mi | 43.8 | 22% | 28% |
| Blean | 1,327 | 3.8 mi | 52.3 | 32% | 22% |
| Rough Common | 1,291 | 3.9 mi | 42.5 | 24% | 27% |
| Chartham | 3,569 | 4 mi | 37.6 | 13% | 37% |
| Whitstable | 32,185 | 5.3 mi | 51.3 | 29% | 23% |
| Canterbury | 55,107 | 5.3 mi | 27.5 | 13% | 24% |
| Challock | 1,089 | 6.1 mi | 46.1 | 22% | 31% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Boughton under Blean’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 Boughton under Blean’s residents
What is the population of Boughton under Blean?
The 2021 Census counted 2,274 people in Boughton under Blean’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Boughton under Blean?
The median age was 46.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Boughton under Blean?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 6.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Boughton under Blean?
44% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Boughton under Blean good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Boughton under Blean’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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