Photo: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 53.4: Etchinghill is older than 94% of UK towns
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 5% of households have no car or van here. On households in detached houses, Etchinghill sits higher than 99% of UK towns: 71%. The village’s 266 households held 621 residents at the 2021 Census. Married adults and civil partners: 59% of the total.
Only 6.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Etchinghill
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 60–64: nearly one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. More residents aged 65 and over than in 92% of UK towns: 31%. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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.
Only 4.2% of adults are full-time students in Etchinghill
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%.
9.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier; across England’s towns the figure is 11%. Across England’s towns, 7.9% of adults are full-time students.
Etchinghill ranks below 88% of UK towns on one-person households: 24%
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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison. Across Etchinghill, 3.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. The village has fewer households with dependent children than 78% of UK towns, at 24%.
Fewer households in terraced houses than 97% of UK towns: 5.8%
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
The share of households in flats trails 88% of UK towns: 3.9%. As a yardstick, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 96% of UK towns: 99%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in Africa (2.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.9%). On residents born outside the UK, Etchinghill sits higher than just over half of UK towns: 6.4%. Against that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
In Etchinghill, 51% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 61% 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 Etchinghill · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Mixed or multiple (2.6%), Other White (2.3%) and Indian (1%). The wider picture: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. 93% of residents describe themselves as White British, a higher share than in 60% of UK towns. Still, across England’s towns, 37% of residents said they have no religion; in Etchinghill, 41%.
Etchinghill sits below 96% of UK towns for adults who have never married (24%)
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 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. At 10%, the share of unpaid carers is higher than in 70% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
35% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 35% of adults in Etchinghill, 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification, against 18%.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Etchinghill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Etchinghill | 621 | — | 53.4 | 31% | 24% |
| Lyminge | 1,918 | 1.1 mi | 55.1 | 37% | 21% |
| Hawkinge | 8,499 | 2.9 mi | 41.1 | 18% | 37% |
| Hythe | 14,613 | 3.1 mi | 55.5 | 35% | 19% |
| Folkestone | 51,987 | 3.7 mi | 41.3 | 19% | 27% |
| Lympne | 1,074 | 3.9 mi | 52.7 | 28% | 22% |
| Capel-le-Ferne | 1,962 | 5.2 mi | 59.8 | 40% | 14% |
| Brabourne Lees | 1,479 | 5.2 mi | 51.2 | 29% | 24% |
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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 Etchinghill’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 Etchinghill’s residents
What is the population of Etchinghill?
The 2021 Census counted 621 people in Etchinghill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Etchinghill?
The median age was 53.4 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Etchinghill?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Etchinghill?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Etchinghill good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Etchinghill’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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