Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 28.3: Ternhill is younger than 99% of UK towns
20% of adults are married or in a civil partnership; across England’s towns the figure is 44%. Households in flats: 2% of the total. Residents who describe themselves as Christian are more common here than in 92% of UK towns. There were 152 households in Ternhill at the 2021 Census, home to 815 residents.
Ternhill ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 5.1%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 27%, above 99% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
26% women, 74% men
About 35 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Ternhill is a garrison town: service personnel living in barracks count as residents.
A smaller share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 2.1%
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%.
18% of residents lived at another address a year before the Census, against 11% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Ternhill sits above 96% of UK towns for households with dependent children (37%)
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Shropshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Against a figure of 30% across England’s towns, the share of one-person households in Ternhill comes in at 19%. Households with dependent children: 29% across England’s towns, for comparison. In Ternhill, 4.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Ternhill sits below 94% of UK towns for households in detached houses (10%)
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: 29%, above 80% of UK towns. Fewer households without a car or van than in 92% of UK towns: 8%. Set beside that, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
More residents born abroad than 88% of UK towns: 16% in Ternhill
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (8.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (5.5%). At 95%, the share of residents whose main language is English is lower than in 77% of UK towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. 59% of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later, against 21% across England’s towns.
Only 81% of residents describe themselves as White British in Ternhill
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: 81% of Ternhill · Shropshire’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 36% here and 37% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (12%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and African (1.5%).
70% of adults have never married, more than in 99% 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
4 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Few places have so few unpaid carers: 4.9% here, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. For comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 24% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 24% of its adults qualified to degree level, Ternhill compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 12% hold no qualification (18%).
Every nearby town is older than Ternhill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ternhill | 815 | — | 28.3 | 5.1% | 37% |
| Market Drayton | 12,062 | 2.5 mi | 45.8 | 25% | 26% |
| Prees | 1,013 | 5.4 mi | 50.8 | 27% | 22% |
| Prees Higher Heath | 1,226 | 5.4 mi | 53.2 | 31% | 21% |
| Loggerheads | 2,523 | 7 mi | 52.7 | 29% | 22% |
| Audlem | 1,833 | 7.7 mi | 58.2 | 39% | 19% |
| Wem | 6,287 | 7.8 mi | 47.6 | 27% | 22% |
| Shawbury | 1,962 | 8 mi | 37.5 | 17% | 33% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Shropshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Shropshire (or England), summed the same way as Ternhill’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 Ternhill’s residents
What is the population of Ternhill?
The 2021 Census counted 815 people in Ternhill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ternhill?
The median age was 28.3 at the 2021 Census. 27% of residents were 15 to 24 and 5.1% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ternhill?
81% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Shropshire’s towns. 16% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ternhill?
36% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 3.2% didn’t answer.
Is Ternhill good for families?
37% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ternhill’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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