Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 6% of households have no car or van in Ulcombe
7.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (England’s towns: 12%). Census day 2021: 620 residents and 247 households in Ulcombe. Here, 55% of households live in a detached house. Higher than in 94% of UK towns: 57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Half of Ulcombe is over 47.4, older than 71% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
A fifth of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. No age band is larger than 55–59: just over one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of full-time students than 96% of UK towns: 3.4%
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Ulcombe, 41% and 14%. To put it in context, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. In Ulcombe, 6.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Ulcombe ranks below 96% of UK towns on one-person households: 21%
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.
At 3.6%, shared households of unrelated adults sit close to the figure across England’s towns. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%. A household here holds 2.5 people on average. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 71% of UK towns.
Fewer flats than 97% of UK towns: 2% of households
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 figure for households in terraced houses is 9.2% in Ulcombe and 24% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 96% of UK towns, at 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 EU countries (2.3%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.3%). The wider picture: nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Lower than in 64% of UK towns: 5% of residents were born outside the UK.
57% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 88% 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: 89% of Ulcombe · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 37%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are scarce here: 89%, fewer than in 66% of UK towns. The wider picture: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (8.2%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and African (0.8%).
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 89% of UK towns: 26%
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
8 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. The usual figure: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Higher than in 59% of UK towns: 9.7% of residents give unpaid care.
Degree-level qualifications reach 34% 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 Ulcombe, 14%, while 34% hold one at degree level (34%).
A younger town than 2 of the 7 around it: Ulcombe
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulcombe | 620 | — | 47.4 | 20% | 25% |
| Kingswood | 1,371 | 1.5 mi | 53.4 | 30% | 23% |
| Sutton Valence | 1,457 | 2.3 mi | 45.8 | 21% | 28% |
| Headcorn | 3,293 | 2.7 mi | 45.2 | 25% | 29% |
| Lenham and Harrietsham | 4,763 | 3 mi | 43.5 | 24% | 29% |
| Staplehurst | 6,181 | 5 mi | 44.9 | 22% | 31% |
| Bearsted | 8,349 | 5.3 mi | 48.8 | 28% | 29% |
| Coxheath | 8,453 | 6.3 mi | 44.3 | 23% | 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 Ulcombe’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 Ulcombe’s residents
What is the population of Ulcombe?
The 2021 Census counted 620 people in Ulcombe’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ulcombe?
The median age was 47.4 at the 2021 Census. 7.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ulcombe?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ulcombe?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Ulcombe good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ulcombe’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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