Photo: Penny Mayes · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in flats make up 0.7% in Eastling, less than in 99% of UK towns
Households without a car or van make up 6.8%, against 24% across England’s towns. Meanwhile, half of Eastling’s residents are over 50.4, older than in 87% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Eastling was home to 361 people in 149 households. The census found that 25% of households have dependent children here.
Eastling: 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, above 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: just over one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. For Eastling, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 23%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 90% of UK towns: 6.7%
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%.
Little separates the share of full-time students here, 8.4%, from the figure 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.
One-person households: 23%, a lower share than 92% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.4%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
A larger share of households in detached houses than 92% of UK towns: 53%
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
The share of households in terraced houses stands at 20%. 0.7% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 53% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
97% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 60% 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
By its share of residents born outside the UK (6.1%), Eastling is below 53% of UK towns. Typically, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.6%) and in Africa (1.4%).
Above 79% of UK towns: 45% of residents said they have no religion
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 Eastling · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British; in Eastling, 94%. Measured more widely, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.6%), Mixed or multiple (0.8%) and Indian (0.6%). Lower than in 55% of UK towns: 49% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
Eastling ranks above 82% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 53%
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
11 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Set beside that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are rarer here than in 84% of UK towns. Against a figure of 39% across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married in Eastling comes in at 31%.
Degree-level qualifications: 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Eastling counts 38% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 19% have no qualification (18%). A levels are as far as 17% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Every neighbour of Eastling has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastling | 361 | — | 50.4 | 23% | 25% |
| Teynham | 3,128 | 3.8 mi | 39.7 | 20% | 30% |
| Faversham | 20,941 | 4.2 mi | 43.8 | 22% | 28% |
| Charing | 2,170 | 4.6 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 25% |
| Challock | 1,089 | 4.7 mi | 46.1 | 22% | 31% |
| Sittingbourne | 54,385 | 5.6 mi | 38.6 | 17% | 33% |
| Lenham and Harrietsham | 4,763 | 6.1 mi | 43.5 | 24% | 29% |
| Boughton under Blean | 2,274 | 6.3 mi | 46.1 | 23% | 28% |
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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 Eastling’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 Eastling’s residents
What is the population of Eastling?
The 2021 Census counted 361 people in Eastling’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Eastling?
The median age was 50.4 at the 2021 Census. 14% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Eastling?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Eastling?
45% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.7% didn’t answer.
Is Eastling good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Eastling’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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