Photo: Vieve Forward · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.6%
Set against 12% across England’s towns, 7.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Finstock. Locally, 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. On households without a car or van, Finstock sits lower than 94% of UK towns: 7.4%. In 2021, the Census found 758 residents locally, living in 333 households.
Finstock is older than 90% of UK towns: a median age of 51.3
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
People aged 65 and over make up 29% of residents, against 18% across England’s towns. In Goring, the oldest of Oxfordshire’s towns by this measure, it is 33%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 84% of UK towns: 7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
Full-time students make up 4.3% of adults, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Typically, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Households with dependent children: 25%, a lower share than 75% of UK towns
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.
In Finstock the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. For households with dependent children, the comparison across England’s towns is 29%. On the census count, 3.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Finstock: 32% of households live in a terraced house, above 86% 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
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 34% of households live in a detached house in Finstock. Households in terraced houses make up 24% across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Finstock, more than in 98% 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
Set against 18% across England’s towns, 7.1% of residents were born outside the UK in Finstock. Measured more widely, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.3%) and in EU countries (2%).
Finstock ranks above 66% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 94%
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: 94% of Finstock · Oxfordshire’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
51% of residents describe themselves as Christian; across England’s towns the figure is 46%. Few places have as many residents with no religion: 43% here, more than in 62% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (4.1%), Mixed or multiple (0.5%) and African (0.3%).
Married adults and civil partners make up 54% in Finstock, more than in 84% 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
16 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. The wider picture: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. More unpaid carers than in 67% of UK towns: 10%.
40% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 40% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 15% hold no qualification (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Finstock, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finstock | 758 | — | 51.3 | 29% | 25% |
| Charlbury | 2,810 | 2 mi | 50.1 | 28% | 25% |
| Stonesfield | 1,663 | 2.3 mi | 49 | 24% | 27% |
| North Leigh | 1,733 | 2.7 mi | 48.1 | 23% | 26% |
| Freeland | 1,520 | 3.8 mi | 54.9 | 33% | 24% |
| Long Hanborough | 3,034 | 3.8 mi | 43.5 | 22% | 30% |
| Witney | 30,167 | 4.1 mi | 41.5 | 19% | 28% |
| Minster Lovell | 1,270 | 4.6 mi | 52.5 | 28% | 22% |
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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 Finstock’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 Finstock’s residents
What is the population of Finstock?
The 2021 Census counted 758 people in Finstock’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Finstock?
The median age was 51.3 at the 2021 Census. 7.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Finstock?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Oxfordshire’s towns. 7.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Finstock?
43% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Finstock good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Finstock’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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