Photo: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0Brasted Chart: 39% of households have dependent children, above 97% of UK towns
Here 70% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. Brasted Chart is home to 300 residents in 111 households, by the 2021 Census. Adults who have never married account for 22%. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Only 8% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Brasted Chart
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Brasted Chart is 46.7, higher than in 66% of UK towns. Locally, 21% of residents are 65 or over. Across the comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. 45–49 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 71% of UK towns: 7.7%
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%.
Brasted Chart sits close to the norm on full-time students: 7.8%, about the same as across England’s towns. For comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Brasted Chart ranks below 99% of UK towns on one-person households: 19%
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.
Little separates the share of shared households of unrelated adults here, 4.5%, from the figure across England’s towns. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%. Each household has 2.7 people on average.
Fewer households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns: 1.8%
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
24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, against 8.9% in Brasted Chart.
Residents born outside the UK: 11%, a higher share than 78% 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
Where 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Brasted Chart has 99%. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (5%) and in EU countries (2.7%).
56% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 85% 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: 90% of Brasted Chart · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
At 37%, residents with no religion sit close to the figure across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Across Brasted Chart, nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British.
In Brasted Chart, 65% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 99% 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
5 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Brasted Chart has fewer unpaid carers than 74% of UK towns, at 8.5%. Across England’s towns, married adults and civil partners come to 44%.
Degree-level qualifications reach 51% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Brasted Chart, 51% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 6.9% have no qualification at all (18%). A levels top the qualifications of 15%, many of them students on the way to a degree.
3 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Brasted Chart
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasted Chart | 300 | — | 46.7 | 21% | 39% |
| Westerham | 3,390 | 1.4 mi | 45.3 | 20% | 30% |
| Sundridge | 1,190 | 1.5 mi | 46.4 | 22% | 28% |
| Dunton Green | 3,241 | 3.6 mi | 36.3 | 12% | 34% |
| Sevenoaks | 26,474 | 3.7 mi | 42 | 18% | 36% |
| Marlpit Hill | 1,271 | 4 mi | 47.6 | 25% | 30% |
| Limpsfield | 2,247 | 4 mi | 48.6 | 26% | 29% |
| Tatsfield | 1,379 | 4 mi | 50.5 | 28% | 30% |
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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 Brasted Chart’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 Brasted Chart’s residents
What is the population of Brasted Chart?
The 2021 Census counted 300 people in Brasted Chart’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brasted Chart?
The median age was 46.7 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brasted Chart?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brasted Chart?
37% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Brasted Chart good for families?
39% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Brasted Chart’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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