Photo: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 4.0A lower share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns, at 4.2%
Nearly one in ten households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. Lower than in 97% of UK towns: 20% of households are one person living alone. At the 2021 Census, 466 people lived in Alvescot, in 191 households. Residents with no religion account for 32%.
A median age of 47: Alvescot is older than 69% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 50–54: one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 11% in Alvescot. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are scarce here: 19%, fewer than in 69% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
More students than 86% of UK towns: 6.1% of adults in Alvescot
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 7.7% here and 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Larger households than 85% of UK towns: 2.5 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Oxfordshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Here just over a quarter of households have dependent children, where the figure across England’s towns is 29%. Still, at 2.6%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is higher than in 63% of UK towns.
A larger share of households in detached houses than 84% of UK towns: 44%
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 flats make up 7.6%, against 23% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, households in detached houses come to 21%.
Alvescot sits above 84% 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
Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Alvescot has 6.9%. The usual figure: nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (3%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.5%).
In Alvescot, 57% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more 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: 91% of Alvescot · Oxfordshire’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
91% of residents describe themselves as White British; across England’s towns the figure is 73%. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (5.8%), Mixed or multiple (1.9%) and Indian (0.2%).
Above 87% of UK towns: 55% of adults are married or in 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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 12 people. Alvescot has fewer adults who have never married than nearly two thirds of UK towns, at 30%. To put it in context, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 9.8% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns.
Qualified to degree level: 41% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Alvescot’s adults: 41% with a degree-level qualification and 9.2% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns. A levels are as far as 16% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
A younger town than 5 of the 7 around it: Alvescot
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alvescot | 466 | — | 47 | 19% | 26% |
| Carterton | 17,951 | 1.9 mi | 35.4 | 13% | 34% |
| Bampton | 2,994 | 2.8 mi | 45.6 | 23% | 26% |
| Aston | 1,174 | 4.5 mi | 47.2 | 22% | 32% |
| Lechlade-on-Thames | 2,208 | 4.5 mi | 51.5 | 29% | 22% |
| Minster Lovell | 1,270 | 4.6 mi | 52.5 | 28% | 22% |
| Burford | 1,522 | 4.9 mi | 56.3 | 37% | 16% |
| Ducklington | 1,585 | 5.6 mi | 50.4 | 27% | 24% |
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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.
- “Oxfordshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Oxfordshire (or England), summed the same way as Alvescot’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 Alvescot’s residents
What is the population of Alvescot?
The 2021 Census counted 466 people in Alvescot’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Alvescot?
The median age was 47 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Alvescot?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Oxfordshire’s towns. 6.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Alvescot?
32% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 10% didn’t answer.
Is Alvescot good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Alvescot’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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