Photo: Bill Nicholls · CC BY-SA 2.07.6% of households have no car or van, below 93% of UK towns
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Nettlebed, 2.4. Census day 2021: 778 residents and 310 households here. Residents who describe themselves as Christian account for 59%. The village has more households with dependent children than 84% of UK towns, at 32%.
Nettlebed sits below 80% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (8.8%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Nettlebed is 46.7, higher than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. For comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Here, 22% of residents are 65 or over. The biggest five-year age group is 45–49, with 10% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Only 4.4% of adults are full-time students in Nettlebed
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%.
47% of Nettlebed’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. For Nettlebed, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 8.8%.
Below 78% of UK towns: 26% of households are one person living alone
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 shared households of unrelated adults stands at 2.3%. For comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
A smaller share of households in flats than 87% of UK towns: 4.1%
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 21% across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Nettlebed comes in at 39%. Nearly a fifth of households live in a terraced house. Households in flats: 23% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Nettlebed: 8.2% of residents were born outside the UK, above 65% 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
Where nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Nettlebed has 97%. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.6%) or in the Middle East and Asia (2.1%).
A lower share of residents with no religion than 83% of UK towns, at 35%
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: 92% of Nettlebed · Oxfordshire’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (4.1%), Mixed or multiple (1.7%) and Indian (0.6%). Across the comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Here 92% of residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%.
In Nettlebed, 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 92% 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
10 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. The usual figure: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 56%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 91% of UK towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 7.8%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
44% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 44% of Nettlebed’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 12% have no qualification (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 5 are older than Nettlebed
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nettlebed | 778 | — | 46.7 | 22% | 32% |
| Sonning Common | 5,264 | 4.1 mi | 48.9 | 27% | 29% |
| Henley-on-Thames | 11,786 | 4.7 mi | 47 | 24% | 25% |
| Woodcote | 2,198 | 4.8 mi | 48.6 | 24% | 29% |
| Watlington | 2,438 | 4.8 mi | 49.7 | 26% | 25% |
| Crowmarsh Gifford | 1,329 | 5.2 mi | 46.8 | 22% | 29% |
| Benson | 5,236 | 5.5 mi | 36 | 17% | 35% |
| Wallingford | 8,455 | 6.2 mi | 44.4 | 22% | 28% |
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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 Nettlebed’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 Nettlebed’s residents
What is the population of Nettlebed?
The 2021 Census counted 778 people in Nettlebed’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Nettlebed?
The median age was 46.7 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Nettlebed?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Oxfordshire’s towns. 8.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Nettlebed?
35% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Nettlebed good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Nettlebed’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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