Photo: Russ Hamer · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 51.7: Hose is older than 91% of UK towns
Here 58% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. In 2021, the Census found 578 residents in Hose, living in 247 households. For Hose, the census puts households in flats at 0.4%. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 95% of UK towns.
Hose ranks below 95% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 7.8%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 25%, against 18% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 55% of UK towns: 4.7%
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Hose, 36% and 20%. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 8.9% locally.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 88% of UK towns: 1.6%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Leicestershire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
At 2.3 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults make up 4.3% across England’s towns. For Hose, the census puts one-person households at 26%.
9.3% of households live in a terraced house, below 91% 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
With households without a car or van at 11%, Hose is behind 78% of UK towns on that count. Across the comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born abroad than 97% of UK towns: 2.4%
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 (1.4%) and in the rest of Europe (0.7%). 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 98% of UK towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Hose ranks above 91% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 58%
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: 96% of Hose · Leicestershire’s towns 66% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2.3%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and Indian (0.4%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 33%, fewer than in 87% of UK towns. To put it in context, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, against 96% in Hose.
Adults who have never married make up 25% in Hose, less than in 92% 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
In Hose, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care, beside 8.7% across England’s towns. 15 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Across England’s towns, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
38% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Hose’s adults: 38% with a degree-level qualification and 15% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Hose
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hose | 578 | — | 51.7 | 25% | 27% |
| Waltham on the Wolds | 1,034 | 5 mi | 51.1 | 27% | 29% |
| Cropwell Bishop | 1,903 | 5.2 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 26% |
| Melton Mowbray | 27,451 | 6.4 mi | 44.1 | 22% | 26% |
| Cotgrave | 7,794 | 6.5 mi | 40.2 | 18% | 30% |
| Aslockton | 2,173 | 6.6 mi | 48.1 | 21% | 25% |
| Asfordby | 2,761 | 6.7 mi | 46.3 | 23% | 25% |
| Bingham | 10,109 | 6.9 mi | 43.3 | 21% | 30% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Leicestershire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Leicestershire (or England), summed the same way as Hose’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 Hose’s residents
What is the population of Hose?
The 2021 Census counted 578 people in Hose’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hose?
The median age was 51.7 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hose?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 66% across Leicestershire’s towns. 2.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hose?
33% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 7.1% didn’t answer.
Is Hose good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hose’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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