Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0Hothfield sits below 99% of UK towns for households in flats (0.5%)
Where 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Hothfield has 39%. The median age in the village is 49.5, higher than in 83% of UK towns. 511 residents in 217 households: that is Hothfield at the 2021 Census. On the census count, 13% of residents give unpaid care.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.3%, a lower share than 90% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 60–64: one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents aged 65 and over: 25% here, more than in 70% of UK towns. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
Hothfield ranks below 98% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.1%
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%.
One in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, against 11% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
23% of households have dependent children, below 87% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Hothfield comes in at 2.8%. For comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. One-person households: 27% of the total.
Hothfield ranks below 66% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 23%
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 14% of households have no car or van, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. 0.5% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 23% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 80% 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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (3.5%) or in Africa (2%). 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK, a higher share than in 60% of UK towns. On average, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Only 87% of residents describe themselves as White British in Hothfield
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: 87% of Hothfield · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (9.2%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and African (0.8%). 40% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 55% of UK towns. The usual figure: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Set against 46% across England’s towns, half of residents describe themselves as Christian in Hothfield.
A lower share of adults who have never married than 75% of UK towns, at 29%
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
Set against 44% across England’s towns, 47% of adults are married or in a civil partnership in Hothfield. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 30 residents. Adults who have never married: 39% across England’s towns, for comparison.
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, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Hothfield, 27%, while 27% hold one at degree level (34%).
Median age: 2 of the 7 towns around Hothfield are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hothfield | 511 | — | 49.5 | 25% | 23% |
| Ashford | 82,143 | 2.9 mi | 37.2 | 15% | 35% |
| Charing | 2,170 | 3.1 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 25% |
| Bethersden | 1,008 | 4 mi | 50.8 | 28% | 24% |
| Shadoxhurst | 1,009 | 4.2 mi | 48.2 | 25% | 26% |
| Challock | 1,089 | 4.4 mi | 46.1 | 22% | 31% |
| Finberry | 1,571 | 4.8 mi | 30.3 | 4.1% | 47% |
| Wye | 2,064 | 5.2 mi | 49.1 | 29% | 25% |
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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 Hothfield’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 Hothfield’s residents
What is the population of Hothfield?
The 2021 Census counted 511 people in Hothfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hothfield?
The median age was 49.5 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hothfield?
87% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 7.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hothfield?
40% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 8.4% didn’t answer.
Is Hothfield good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hothfield’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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