Photo: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0Detling sits below 98% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (5.1%)
Unpaid carers make up 6.5% of residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. 23% of households have dependent children. With a median age of 50.5, Detling is older than 87% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 737 residents and 313 households locally.
Detling sits above 70% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (25%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Here, 9.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Detling sits below 99% of UK towns for full-time students (3%)
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%.
Against a figure of 11% across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Detling comes in at 9.2%. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Detling ranks below 81% of UK towns on one-person households: 26%
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.
1.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home (England’s towns: 4.3%). The benchmark for one-person households across England’s towns: 30%. The average household has 2.4 people.
Above 96% of UK towns: 59% of households live in a detached house
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 10% of households have no car or van, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. Census figures put households in flats at 5.5% in Detling. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 83% of UK towns don’t reach
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
4.3% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. As a yardstick, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.5%) and in EU countries (1.2%).
Above 77% of UK towns: 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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: 92% of Detling · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (3.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Indian (1.2%). The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in nearly three fifths of UK towns. Against a figure of 73% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British in Detling comes in at 92%.
Detling sits above 84% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (54%)
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
15 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 29%, fewer than in 75% of UK towns.
31% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 31% of Detling’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 19% have no qualification (18%).
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Detling
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 Detling’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 Detling’s residents
What is the population of Detling?
The 2021 Census counted 737 people in Detling’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Detling?
The median age was 50.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Detling?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 4.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Detling?
40% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 3.7% didn’t answer.
Is Detling good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Detling’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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