Photo: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 4.07.9% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 92% of UK towns
Households average 2.5 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Across Bletchingdon, 35% of households live in a terraced house. 45% of residents said they have no religion, a higher share than in 74% of UK towns. The village’s 304 households held 749 residents at the 2021 Census.
Bletchingdon sits below 85% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (16%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 11%, against 12% across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. With a median age of 42.4, Bletchingdon is younger than nearly two thirds of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Bletchingdon ranks above 92% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 12%
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%.
In Bletchingdon, 37% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 25% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns: 11%. Full-time students: 4.7% of the total.
Bletchingdon sits below 84% of UK towns for one-person households (25%)
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.
The share of households with dependent children is 30%, against 29% across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults: 4.6% of the total.
Only 12% of households live in a detached house in Bletchingdon
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
Across England’s towns, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment; in Bletchingdon, 5.2%. Households in detached houses: 21% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 84% 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 Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.2%). To put it in context, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. In Bletchingdon, 6.1% of residents were born outside the UK, beside 18% across England’s towns.
93% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 57% 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 Bletchingdon · Oxfordshire’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (3.7%), Mixed or multiple (2.1%) and Chinese (0.3%). As a reference point, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. 48% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns.
Bletchingdon ranks above 67% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 35%
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
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 8%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, adults who have never married come to 39%. On the census count, 43% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
35% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of Bletchingdon’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification (18%).
Bletchingdon is younger than 6 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bletchingdon | 749 | — | 42.4 | 16% | 30% |
| Tackley | 1,073 | 2.2 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 33% |
| Kidlington | 14,640 | 2.6 mi | 44.7 | 23% | 25% |
| Woodstock | 3,522 | 3.2 mi | 46.3 | 24% | 27% |
| Yarnton | 3,227 | 3.5 mi | 42.6 | 22% | 29% |
| Chesterton | 1,179 | 4.3 mi | 43.6 | 19% | 29% |
| Upper Heyford | 2,481 | 5 mi | 34.2 | 7.9% | 43% |
| Wolvercote | 1,328 | 5 mi | 43.9 | 20% | 36% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Bletchingdon’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 Bletchingdon’s residents
What is the population of Bletchingdon?
The 2021 Census counted 749 people in Bletchingdon’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bletchingdon?
The median age was 42.4 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 16% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bletchingdon?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Oxfordshire’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bletchingdon?
45% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Bletchingdon good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bletchingdon’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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