Photo: D-G-Seamon · CC BY-SA 2.0Brabourne Lees is older than 90% of UK towns: a median age of 51.2
In Brabourne Lees, 54% of households live in a detached house, beside 21% across England’s towns. The village is home to 1,479 residents in 621 households, by the 2021 Census. The share of one-person households stands at 23%. Lower than in 97% of UK towns: 2.1% of households live in a flat or apartment.
What the Census says about Brabourne Lees’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Brabourne Lees’s residents are under 51.2 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over make up 29% in Brabourne Lees, more than in 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.3%, below 89% of UK towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 77% of UK towns: 4.2% 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%.
By class, nearly two in five adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 18% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 7.9% in Brabourne Lees.
In Brabourne Lees, 24% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 77% 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.
Households in Brabourne Lees hold 2.4 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). By contrast, 2.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 64% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Only 9.3% of households have no car or van in Brabourne Lees
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
14% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%).
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 75% 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
Residents born outside the UK: 4.9% here and 18% across England’s towns. Against that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.7%).
53% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 71% 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: 94% of Brabourne Lees · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 94%, above 70% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as Christian come to 46%. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (4%), Mixed or multiple (0.8%) and Caribbean (0.2%).
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 98% of UK towns: 60%
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
Here 23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 39%. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns. Across Brabourne Lees, one in ten residents give unpaid care.
Degree-level qualifications: 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 33% of its adults qualified to degree level, Brabourne Lees compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 18% hold no qualification (18%).
Nearby, 3 of 7 towns have older populations than Brabourne Lees
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Brabourne Lees’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 Brabourne Lees’s residents
What is the population of Brabourne Lees?
The 2021 Census counted 1,479 people in Brabourne Lees’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brabourne Lees?
The median age was 51.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brabourne Lees?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 4.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brabourne Lees?
41% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 3.9% didn’t answer.
Is Brabourne Lees good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Brabourne Lees’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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