Photo: David Kemp · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 51.5: Upstreet is older than 91% of UK towns
One-person households: 23%, below 93% of UK towns. Households without a car or van account for 6.1%. Higher than in nearly four fifths of UK towns: 42% of households live in a detached house. The 2021 Census counted 634 residents in 249 households.
Only 7.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Upstreet
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
26% of residents are 65 or over; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. For comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 112 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Upstreet sits below 69% of UK towns for full-time students (4.4%)
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%.
Here nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bigger households than 69% of UK towns: 2.4 people each on average
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.
Across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children is 29%; Upstreet has 28%. More shared households of unrelated adults than in 97% of UK towns: 5.2%.
6.1% of households live in a flat or apartment, below 78% 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
Terraced houses are home to just over a fifth of households, against 24% across England’s towns. The benchmark for households in flats across England’s towns: 23%.
Upstreet ranks above 70% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 9.1%
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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.7%). At 97%, the share of residents whose main language is English is lower than in 63% of UK towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 90% in Upstreet, less than in 63% 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: 90% of Upstreet · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian tops 55% of UK towns: 50%. Measured more widely, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The groups that follow White British are Other White (4.8%), Mixed or multiple (2.4%) and African (0.8%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are common here: 41%, more than in 52% of UK towns.
A lower share of adults who have never married than 73% 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
7.6% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Here, 48% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Typically, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Upstreet, 30% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 21% have no qualification at all (18%).
Upstreet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upstreet | 634 | — | 51.5 | 26% | 28% |
| Hersden | 2,118 | 1.9 mi | 34.5 | 13% | 40% |
| Sturry | 4,857 | 3.4 mi | 44.7 | 24% | 27% |
| Littlebourne | 1,596 | 3.6 mi | 49.4 | 28% | 26% |
| Wingham | 1,313 | 3.7 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 25% |
| Herne | 14,874 | 3.8 mi | 45 | 23% | 30% |
| Herne Bay | 24,873 | 4.2 mi | 49.9 | 29% | 23% |
| Ash (Dover) | 2,529 | 4.7 mi | 48.4 | 25% | 26% |
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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 Upstreet’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 Upstreet’s residents
What is the population of Upstreet?
The 2021 Census counted 634 people in Upstreet’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Upstreet?
The median age was 51.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Upstreet?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 9.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Upstreet?
41% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Upstreet good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Upstreet’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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