Bishop's palace at Halling · Photo: Marathon · CC BY-SA 2.0A town of families: 35% of Halling’s households have children
By its share of one-person households (23%), Halling is below 94% of UK towns. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are common here: 30%, more than in 83% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 2,926 residents and 1,148 households locally. Here, 46% of residents said they have no religion.
What the Census says about Halling’s people
A town of families
35% of Halling’s 1,148 households had dependent children in 2021, more than in 94% of UK towns. 20% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Halling’s residents are under 37.8 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 10% are 15 to 24 and 13% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
A median age of 37.8: Halling is younger than 90% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Halling comes in at 13%. The largest age band is 30–34: 8.9% of residents. Higher than in 57% of UK towns: 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Halling, 37.8. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
Halling ranks below 78% of UK towns on full-time students: 4.2%
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%.
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%; Halling has 9.4%. The usual figure: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Halling households average 2.5 people, larger than in 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.
Where 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, Halling has 2.4%.
A lower share of households without a car or van than 86% of UK towns, at 9.3%
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 detached houses is 26%, against 21% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns. For Halling, the census puts households in flats at 12%.
7.1% born outside the UK, more than in 57% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%; Halling has 98%. Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.7%) and in Africa (1.8%).
Below 65% of UK towns: 90% of residents describe themselves as White British
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 Halling · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (3.1%), African (2%) and Mixed or multiple (1.7%). Halling has fewer residents who describe themselves as Christian than 78% of UK towns, at 45%. For comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Above 71% of UK towns: 36% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
62 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Across England’s towns, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. On unpaid carers, Halling sits lower than three fifths of UK towns: 9%. The share of married adults and civil partners is 48%, against 44% across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 27% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Halling, 27%, and 14% have none, against 18%.
Ranked by age, 33rd youngest of 514 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Keele is the youngest (20.6); West Chiltington the oldest (63.1). Nearest to Halling in age: Harwell (37.7), Llanharry (37.7), Catterick (37.9) and Tangmere (37.9).
Around Halling, 6 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 Halling’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 Halling’s residents
What is the population of Halling?
The 2021 Census counted 2,926 people in Halling’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Halling?
The median age was 37.8 at the 2021 Census, younger than 90% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 13% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Halling?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 7.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Halling?
46% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Halling good for families?
35% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Halling’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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