Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0Fulbrook is older than 96% of UK towns: a median age of 54.7
Unpaid carers: 13%, above 99% of UK towns. For Fulbrook, the census puts households with dependent children at 19%. Fewer households in flats than in 97% of UK towns: 2%. At the 2021 Census Fulbrook was home to 457 people in 200 households.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 30% in Fulbrook, more than in 92% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. The census found that 7.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Fulbrook. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s 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.
Fulbrook sits above 64% of UK towns for full-time students (5.1%)
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, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%; Fulbrook has 10%. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Fulbrook ranks below 90% of UK towns on one-person households: 24%
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.
On shared households of unrelated adults, 5% here is much the same as across England’s towns. Against that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Each household has 2.3 people on average.
More households in detached houses than 94% of UK towns: 56%
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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Fulbrook comes in at 9%. Across Fulbrook, 15% of households live in a terraced house. 2% of households live in a flat, less than in 97% of UK towns; 56% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Fulbrook sits above 74% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (10%)
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (3.7%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (3.3%). Typically, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 98% of residents have English as their main language here.
Fulbrook ranks above 81% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 55%
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: 89% of Fulbrook · Oxfordshire’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
89% of residents describe themselves as White British (England’s towns: 73%). Typically, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Here, 36% of residents said they have no religion.
Above 97% of UK towns: 59% 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
With adults who have never married at 24%, Fulbrook is behind 95% of UK towns on that count. Married adults and civil partners: 44% across England’s towns, for comparison. 17 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
Among adults, 47% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Fulbrook’s adults: 47% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
1 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Fulbrook
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fulbrook | 457 | — | 54.7 | 30% | 19% |
| Burford | 1,522 | 0.8 mi | 56.3 | 37% | 16% |
| Milton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood | 2,956 | 3.3 mi | 50.8 | 29% | 25% |
| Minster Lovell | 1,270 | 3.5 mi | 52.5 | 28% | 22% |
| Carterton | 17,951 | 3.8 mi | 35.4 | 13% | 34% |
| Upper Rissington | 1,999 | 5.3 mi | 38.5 | 9.1% | 41% |
| Witney | 30,167 | 6.1 mi | 41.5 | 19% | 28% |
| Ducklington | 1,585 | 6.8 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 Fulbrook’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 Fulbrook’s residents
What is the population of Fulbrook?
The 2021 Census counted 457 people in Fulbrook’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fulbrook?
The median age was 54.7 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fulbrook?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Oxfordshire’s towns. 10% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fulbrook?
36% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Fulbrook good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fulbrook’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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