Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 3.3% of households have no car or van in Tugby
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put Tugby’s population at 364, in 150 households. Census figures put one-person households at 22% here. Set against 46% across England’s towns, 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian in the village.
A median age of 47.2: Tugby is older than 70% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 60–64: 9.1% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. On residents aged 15 to 24, Tugby sits higher than 72% of UK towns: 10%. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 23%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
A higher share of residents who moved in within the year than 96% of UK towns, at 15%
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, 7.9% of adults are full-time students; in Tugby, 6%. The usual figure: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.4 people per household, more than in 81% of UK towns
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.
Where 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, Tugby has 28%.
Below 99% of UK towns: 0.7% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, against 63% in Tugby. Across England’s towns, the share of households in flats is 23%. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 13% here.
A smaller share of residents born outside the UK than 87% of UK towns: 3.3%
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 abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.2%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). At 99%, the share of residents whose main language is English is higher than in 83% of UK towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
33% said they have no religion, fewer 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: 93% of Tugby · Leicestershire’s towns 66% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
93% of residents describe themselves as White British; across England’s towns the figure is 73%. For residents with no religion, the comparison across England’s towns is 37%.
57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 94% 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
27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership (England’s towns: 39%). In Tugby, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care. Measured more widely, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 48%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
9.7% of Tugby’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 48% have one at degree level (34%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Tugby are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tugby | 364 | — | 47.2 | 23% | 28% |
| Houghton on the Hill | 1,738 | 5.4 mi | 48.3 | 28% | 28% |
| Uppingham | 4,272 | 6.4 mi | 41.5 | 23% | 23% |
| Great Glen | 4,062 | 6.6 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 31% |
| Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt | 7,329 | 6.7 mi | 42.7 | 21% | 32% |
| Great Bowden | 1,510 | 7.7 mi | 43.9 | 22% | 32% |
| Oakham | 12,159 | 7.8 mi | 46.9 | 27% | 24% |
| Barleythorpe | 1,344 | 7.9 mi | 36.2 | 11% | 46% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Tugby’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 Tugby’s residents
What is the population of Tugby?
The 2021 Census counted 364 people in Tugby’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tugby?
The median age was 47.2 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tugby?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 66% across Leicestershire’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Tugby?
33% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.1% didn’t answer.
Is Tugby good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Tugby’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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