Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Joyden's Wood ranks below 94% of UK towns on households in flats: 2.8%
Here 33% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. Joyden's Wood had 4,912 residents and 1,974 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 49.5 (older than 83% of UK towns). One in ten households live in a terraced house. Few places have so few one-person households: 24% here, fewer than in 91% of UK towns.
Older than 83% of UK towns: half of Joyden's Wood is over 49.5
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
In Joyden's Wood, 27% of residents are 65 or over, beside 18% across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24: just over a tenth of the total.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Joyden's Wood, 49.5. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 72% of UK towns, at 7.7%
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%.
In Joyden's Wood, 39% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns: 11%. Locally, 4.8% of adults are full-time students.
Joyden's Wood households average 2.5 people, larger than in 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.
In Joyden's Wood, 2.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, beside 4.3% across England’s towns. Households with dependent children account for 27%.
Households without a car or van: 10%, a lower share than 80% of UK towns
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
Compared with 21% across England’s towns, 31% of households live in a detached house here. Across England’s towns, 24% of households have no car or van.
Residents born outside the UK: 10%, a higher share than 75% 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
96% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in the Middle East and Asia (4.1%) or in EU countries (2.7%).
A lower share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 81% of UK towns, at 83%
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: 83% of Joyden's Wood · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
53% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns. Against that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. After White British, the most common groups are Indian (4.6%), Other White (2.7%) and African (2.7%).
In Joyden's Wood, 55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 89% of UK towns
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
Adults who have never married: 28%, below nearly four fifths of UK towns. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 138 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
28% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 28% of its adults qualified to degree level, Joyden's Wood compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 17% hold no qualification (18%).
Ranked by age, 209th oldest of 810 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 18.9 in Bailrigg to 65.3 in Barton on Sea. Nearest to Joyden's Wood in age: Eaton Bray and Edlesborough (49.4), Greasbrough (49.5), Shepperton (49.5) and Blackfield and Langley (49.5).
Joyden's Wood is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyden's Wood | 4,912 | — | 49.5 | 27% | 27% |
| Hextable | 4,100 | 1.1 mi | 48.9 | 26% | 26% |
| Swanley | 17,209 | 1.9 mi | 39.2 | 18% | 32% |
| Hawley | 1,386 | 2.4 mi | 45.5 | 22% | 31% |
| Dartford | 69,131 | 2.7 mi | 36.6 | 12% | 38% |
| Bexley | 246,074 | 2.9 mi | 39.5 | 17% | 34% |
| Crockenhill | 1,569 | 3.1 mi | 46.8 | 24% | 24% |
| South Darenth and Sutton at Hone | 4,091 | 3.6 mi | 41.9 | 21% | 29% |
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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 Joyden's Wood’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 Joyden's Wood’s residents
What is the population of Joyden's Wood?
The 2021 Census counted 4,912 people in Joyden's Wood’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Joyden's Wood?
The median age was 49.5 at the 2021 Census, older than 83% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Joyden's Wood?
83% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 10% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Joyden's Wood?
33% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.5% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Joyden's Wood good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Joyden's Wood’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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