Photo: Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 1.2%
One-person households: 22% here and 30% across England’s towns. Households without a car or van: 6.8% of the total. Lower than in 93% of UK towns: 8% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Flore counted 1,452 residents and 597 households at the 2021 Census.
Older than 69% of UK towns: half of Flore is over 47
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: 8.3% of residents. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are common here: 24%, more than in 65% of UK towns. In Irchester, the oldest of Northamptonshire’s towns by this measure, it is 25%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
Residents who moved in within the year: 6.6%, a lower share than 91% of UK towns
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%.
Compared with 7.9% across England’s towns, 4.3% of adults are full-time students here. Across England’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%.
2.4 people per household, more than in 79% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Northamptonshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households with dependent children are about as common here as across England’s towns: 29%. In Flore, 2.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Flore ranks above 95% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 58%
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
In Flore, just over one in ten households live in a terraced house, beside 24% across England’s towns. 1.2% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 58% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Flore: 98% of residents have English as their main language, above 66% of UK towns
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 (2.9%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1.6%). For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. Flore has more residents born outside the UK than just over half of UK towns, at 6.4%.
51% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 59% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Flore · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (3%), Mixed or multiple (1.7%) and Indian (1%). 92% of residents describe themselves as White British, a higher share than in 52% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%. Against a figure of 37% across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Flore comes in at 41%.
Married adults and civil partners: 58%, a higher share than 95% 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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 27. Married adults and civil partners: 44% across England’s towns, for comparison. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 26% here, fewer than in 87% of UK towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
41% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Flore, 41% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 13% have no qualification at all (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Flore, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flore | 1,452 | — | 47 | 24% | 29% |
| Weedon Bec | 2,856 | 1.2 mi | 45.1 | 22% | 27% |
| Nether Heyford | 1,504 | 1.4 mi | 51.3 | 28% | 26% |
| Bugbrooke | 3,040 | 2.9 mi | 43.4 | 21% | 32% |
| Harpole | 1,349 | 3 mi | 50.5 | 29% | 24% |
| Kislingbury | 1,323 | 3.3 mi | 46.6 | 23% | 28% |
| Pattishall and Astcote | 1,081 | 4.2 mi | 50.5 | 25% | 23% |
| Long Buckby | 3,821 | 4.6 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Northamptonshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Northamptonshire (or England), summed the same way as Flore’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 Flore’s residents
What is the population of Flore?
The 2021 Census counted 1,452 people in Flore’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Flore?
The median age was 47 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Flore?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Flore?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Flore good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Flore’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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