Photo: David Stowell · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 53.9: Upper Boddington is older than 95% of UK towns
Households without a car or van: 6.1%, below 97% of UK towns. Across Upper Boddington, 0.5% of households live in a flat or apartment. 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 94% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 415 residents and 181 households locally.
28% of Upper Boddington is 65 or over, a higher share than 84% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 13% of residents, 1.9 times the share across England’s towns. Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than in 77% of UK towns: 8.9%. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of full-time students than 72% of UK towns, at 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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Upper Boddington, 46% and 13%. Nearly one in ten residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households with dependent children make up 19% in Upper Boddington, less than in 96% 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.
The figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 1.7% in Upper Boddington and 4.3% across England’s towns. One-person households are rarer here than in 94% of UK towns. The share of households with dependent children across England’s towns is 29%.
66% of households live in a detached house, more than in 98% 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
In Upper Boddington, 8.2% of households live in a terraced house, beside 24% across England’s towns. At the same time, 0.5% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 66% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Upper Boddington sits above 88% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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 (3.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.6%). On residents born outside the UK, Upper Boddington sits higher than just over two thirds of UK towns: 8.6%. The share of residents whose main language is English across England’s towns is 90%.
Upper Boddington sits above 95% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (61%)
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: 95% of Upper Boddington · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, Upper Boddington has 95%. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Residents with no religion: just over a third of the total.
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns: 61%
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
Unpaid carers: 10% here and 8.7% across England’s towns. 15 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Across the comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
47% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Upper Boddington, 47%, and 14% have none, against 18%.
The towns around Upper Boddington are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Boddington | 415 | — | 53.9 | 28% | 19% |
| Byfield | 1,303 | 2.2 mi | 50.3 | 26% | 24% |
| Woodford Halse | 4,288 | 3.6 mi | 40.2 | 15% | 30% |
| Napton on the Hill | 1,063 | 4.8 mi | 46.6 | 22% | 28% |
| Bishop's Itchington | 2,530 | 6.2 mi | 42.6 | 19% | 30% |
| Southam | 8,103 | 6.4 mi | 42 | 20% | 27% |
| Stockton | 1,504 | 6.9 mi | 43.9 | 18% | 28% |
| Middleton Cheney | 4,127 | 7.4 mi | 46 | 22% | 30% |
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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 Upper Boddington’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 Upper Boddington’s residents
What is the population of Upper Boddington?
The 2021 Census counted 415 people in Upper Boddington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Upper Boddington?
The median age was 53.9 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Upper Boddington?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 8.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Upper Boddington?
34% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Upper Boddington good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Upper Boddington’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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