Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Exton is over 53.3, older than 94% of UK towns
Set against 29% across England’s towns, 22% of households have dependent children in Exton. The share of households without a car or van stands at 5.7%. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 95% of UK towns. The 2021 Census counted 581 residents in 261 households.
Exton sits below 99% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (6.9%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, 18% of residents are 65 or over; in Exton, 28%. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
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.
Only 6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Exton
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 Exton, 38% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Full-time students account for 4.4%. Measured more widely, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
In Exton, 0.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Rutland’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Across England’s towns, 30% of households are one person living alone; in Exton, 32%. The wider picture: 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. There are 2.2 people in the average household.
3.1% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 93% 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
Where 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, Exton has 35%. The wider picture: 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. Households in terraced houses are more common here than in 52% of UK towns.
98% of residents have English as their main language, a share 63% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (4.8%) or in Africa (0.7%). Set beside that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents born outside the UK: 6.3% here, more than in half of UK towns.
In Exton, 64% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 98% 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: 96% of Exton · Rutland’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (3.8%), Mixed or multiple (0.3%) and Chinese (0.2%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 46% across England’s towns. 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, a higher share than in 83% of UK towns.
Fewer adults who have never married than 94% of UK towns: 24%
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
Unpaid carers make up 9.8% of residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Here, 54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Degree-level qualifications: 37% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 37% of Exton’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Exton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exton | 581 | — | 53.3 | 28% | 22% |
| Greetham | 2,807 | 2.5 mi | 27.9 | 7.8% | 45% |
| Clipsham | 1,150 | 4.4 mi | 35 | 2.9% | 25% |
| Oakham | 12,159 | 4.5 mi | 46.9 | 27% | 24% |
| Barleythorpe | 1,344 | 4.9 mi | 36.2 | 11% | 46% |
| Langham | 1,400 | 5.3 mi | 55.2 | 34% | 20% |
| Ketton | 1,618 | 5.3 mi | 51.2 | 29% | 25% |
| South Witham | 1,590 | 5.3 mi | 41.4 | 16% | 27% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Rutland’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Rutland (or England), summed the same way as Exton’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 Exton’s residents
What is the population of Exton?
The 2021 Census counted 581 people in Exton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Exton?
The median age was 53.3 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Exton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Rutland’s towns. 6.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Exton?
29% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Exton good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Exton’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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