Photo: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 3.0Hugglescote ranks below 85% of UK towns on households in flats: 4.7%
44% of households live in a detached house (England’s towns: 21%). The median age in Hugglescote is 40.7, lower than in 77% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put the town’s population at 4,630, in 2,010 households. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 1.9% locally.
What the Census says about Hugglescote’s people
More with no religion than most
47% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 46% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 15 to 24: 10%, a higher share than 66% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 18%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Hugglescote, 40.7. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
Hugglescote ranks below 84% of UK towns on full-time students: 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%.
Nearly a third of Hugglescote’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 28% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year account for 13%.
Fewer one-person households than 68% of UK towns: 28%
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.
A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Compared with other places, households with dependent children are scarce here: 26%, fewer than in three fifths of UK towns. For one-person households, the comparison across England’s towns is 30%.
Fewer households without a car or van than 62% of UK towns: 13%
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
Households in terraced houses make up 23%, against 24% across England’s towns. Every 8th household or so has no car or van.
Below 59% of UK towns: 5.5% of residents were born outside the UK
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (3%) and in Africa (1.2%). The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%. The figure for residents whose main language is English is 97% in Hugglescote and 90% across England’s towns.
Residents with no religion make up 47% in Hugglescote, more than in 86% 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: 92% of Hugglescote · Leicestershire’s towns 66% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 46%. The groups that follow White British are Other White (2.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.7%) and African (1%). The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 37% across England’s towns.
Above 75% of UK towns: 37% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
114 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns. Few places have so few married adults and civil partners: 46% here, fewer than in 63% of UK towns. Unpaid carers make up 9.1%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
27% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Hugglescote, 27% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 18% have no qualification at all (18%).
106th youngest of 695 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe the oldest (64.7). Nearest to Hugglescote in age: Wynyard (40.6), Rendlesham (40.6), Drayton (40.8) and New Tredegar (40.8).
A younger town than 4 of the 7 around it: Hugglescote
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Hugglescote’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 Hugglescote’s residents
What is the population of Hugglescote?
The 2021 Census counted 4,630 people in Hugglescote’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hugglescote?
The median age was 40.7 at the 2021 Census, younger than 77% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 18% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hugglescote?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 66% across Leicestershire’s towns. 5.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hugglescote?
47% said they had no religion and 46% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Hugglescote good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hugglescote’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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