Church of St Nicholas · Photo: Poliphilo · CC0Fewer flats than 99% of UK towns: 1.3% of households
The share of households without a car or van trails 93% of UK towns: 7.5%. One-person households are rarer here than in 94% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 353 people lived in Pluckley, in 147 households. Census figures put households with dependent children at 24% locally.
A median age of 51: Pluckley is older than 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 18%; Pluckley has 24%. In St Mary's Bay, the oldest of Kent’s towns by this measure, it is 42%.
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.
Full-time students: 3.4%, a lower share than 96% of UK towns
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%.
8% of residents lived at another address a year before the Census, against 11% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
2.4 people per household, more than in 76% 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: 3.4%, near enough the figure across England’s towns.
Above 58% of UK towns: 32% of households live in a detached house
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
23% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). As a reference point, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Above 98% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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
Residents born outside the UK: 3.7% here and 18% across England’s towns. As a reference point, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in Africa (1.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%).
Pluckley ranks above 79% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 95%
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: 95% of Pluckley · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Mixed or multiple (2%), Other White (1.7%) and African (0.3%). The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%. Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as Christian: 51% here, more than in 60% of UK towns. On top of that, across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%; Pluckley has 41%.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 77% of UK towns: 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 8.7% across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care in Pluckley. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 51%, more than in just over two thirds of UK towns. Typically, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 12.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 31% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 31% of adults in Pluckley (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 19% (England’s towns: 18%).
No nearby town is as old as Pluckley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pluckley | 353 | — | 51 | 24% | 24% |
| Charing | 2,170 | 3.1 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 25% |
| Bethersden | 1,008 | 3.3 mi | 50.8 | 28% | 24% |
| Headcorn | 3,293 | 5.5 mi | 45.2 | 25% | 29% |
| Shadoxhurst | 1,009 | 5.5 mi | 48.2 | 25% | 26% |
| Ashford | 82,143 | 5.5 mi | 37.2 | 15% | 35% |
| Lenham and Harrietsham | 4,763 | 5.5 mi | 43.5 | 24% | 29% |
| Challock | 1,089 | 6.2 mi | 46.1 | 22% | 31% |
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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 Pluckley’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 Pluckley’s residents
What is the population of Pluckley?
The 2021 Census counted 353 people in Pluckley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pluckley?
The median age was 51 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pluckley?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pluckley?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Pluckley good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Pluckley’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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