Photo: Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0Cothill is younger than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 13.2
Households with dependent children make up 43%, against 29% across England’s towns. One-person households account for 15%. Lower than in 96% of UK towns: 2.3% of households live in a flat or apartment. Cothill counted 292 residents and 46 households at the 2021 Census.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 5.5%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 2.4% here and 12% across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
21% women, 79% men
About 27 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Cothill is a campus town: students living in halls or boarding houses count as residents.
31% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 99% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Cothill has 73% and 2.1%. Higher than in 70% of UK towns: 5.3% of adults are full-time students. For comparison, 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.
Bigger households than 98% of UK towns: 2.7 people each 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.
There is little gap on shared households of unrelated adults: 4.4%, about the same as across England’s towns.
67% of households live in a detached house, more than in 99% 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
Households in terraced houses: 9.3%, below 91% of UK towns. Still, 2.3% of households live in a flat, less than in 96% of UK towns; 67% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Above 98% of UK towns: 31% of residents were born outside the UK
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 40%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Set against 90% across England’s towns, 87% of residents have English as their main language in Cothill. Across the comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Middle East and Asia (16%) and in EU countries (6.1%).
No religion: 27% of residents, a lower share than 96% 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: 62% of Cothill · Oxfordshire’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The Muslim share of residents is 1%. By way of comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 59%, more than in 92% of UK towns. Here 62% of residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%.
Above 99% of UK towns: 69% 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
Adults who have never married make up 26%, against 39% across England’s towns. 5% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 99% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 70%
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 Cothill, 70%, and 4.3% have none, against 18%.
No nearby town is as young as Cothill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cothill | 292 | — | 13.2 | 5.5% | 43% |
| Wootton (Vale of White Horse) | 2,428 | 1.1 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 28% |
| Shippon | 1,894 | 1.4 mi | 29.1 | 8.9% | 54% |
| Marcham | 2,030 | 1.7 mi | 42.3 | 20% | 33% |
| Abingdon-on-Thames | 33,179 | 2.5 mi | 42.4 | 20% | 27% |
| Chawley | 1,127 | 3 mi | 42.8 | 17% | 36% |
| Drayton | 3,110 | 3.3 mi | 40.8 | 19% | 33% |
| Radley | 2,079 | 3.8 mi | 26.2 | 16% | 27% |
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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 Cothill’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 Cothill’s residents
What is the population of Cothill?
The 2021 Census counted 292 people in Cothill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cothill?
The median age was 13.2 at the 2021 Census. 2.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 5.5% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cothill?
62% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Oxfordshire’s towns. 31% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cothill?
27% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Cothill good for families?
43% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cothill’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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