Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Welshampton is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 55
The share of households in detached houses tops 99% of UK towns: 81%. Welshampton is home to 293 residents in 132 households, by the 2021 Census. Locally, 17% of households have dependent children. At 1.5%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 91% of UK towns.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 86% of UK towns: 8.5%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 14% of residents, 2.1 times the share across England’s towns. In Welshampton, 28% of residents are 65 or over. Measured more widely, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of full-time students than 98% of UK towns, at 3.1%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 6.5%, below 93% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
One-person households: 28%, a lower share than 66% of UK towns
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.
The average household has 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Typically, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Only 0.8% of households live in a flat or apartment in Welshampton
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: 12% here and 24% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. Across Welshampton, 4.6% of households have no car or van.
Welshampton ranks above 86% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 99%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%). To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Welshampton has 6.1%.
Welshampton ranks above 98% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 65%
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 Welshampton · Shropshire’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 73% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British in Welshampton comes in at 94%. Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian. 30% of residents said they have no religion.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 98% of UK towns, at 59%
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 care takes 50 hours a week or more for 2 people. 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. On average, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 7.8%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 44% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 44% of its adults qualified to degree level, Welshampton compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 11% hold no qualification (18%).
Every neighbour of Welshampton has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welshampton | 293 | — | 55 | 28% | 17% |
| Ellesmere | 4,268 | 2.4 mi | 49.4 | 29% | 23% |
| Wem | 6,287 | 6.2 mi | 47.6 | 27% | 22% |
| St Martins | 2,692 | 7 mi | 46.3 | 24% | 26% |
| Prees | 1,013 | 7.4 mi | 50.8 | 27% | 22% |
| Whittington | 1,618 | 7.4 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 29% |
| Whitchurch | 9,856 | 7.5 mi | 47 | 24% | 24% |
| Prees Higher Heath | 1,226 | 7.8 mi | 53.2 | 31% | 21% |
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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 Welshampton’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 Welshampton’s residents
What is the population of Welshampton?
The 2021 Census counted 293 people in Welshampton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Welshampton?
The median age was 55 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Welshampton?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Shropshire’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Welshampton?
30% said they had no religion and 65% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Welshampton good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Welshampton’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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