Photo: Patrick Mackie · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 22% of households in Baltonsborough are one person living alone
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Baltonsborough has 7.8%. Households in detached houses account for 47%. 4.4% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. The village had 694 residents in 293 households at the 2021 Census.
Half of Baltonsborough is over 49.8, older than 84% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. In South Petherton, the oldest of Somerset’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 96% of UK towns: 3.4% of adults are full-time students
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 37% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 24% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%. On the census count, 12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
2.4 people per household, more than in 72% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Somerset’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 3.4%. For Baltonsborough, the census puts households with dependent children at 27%.
Fewer car-free households than 93% of UK towns: 7.5%
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 nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Baltonsborough has 18%. One household in every 13 has no car or van.
Baltonsborough: 7.6% of residents born outside the UK
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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (3.3%), then in Africa (1.4%). The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language; in Baltonsborough, 97%.
Baltonsborough ranks above 59% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 42%
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: 93% of Baltonsborough · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 47%, against 46% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Across Baltonsborough, 93% of residents describe themselves as White British.
58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 95% of UK towns don’t reach
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
15 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. The wider picture: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 27% here, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. Baltonsborough sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 7.7%, about the same as across England’s towns.
Among adults, 36% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 36% of adults in Baltonsborough (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 12% (England’s towns: 18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Baltonsborough, 5 are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltonsborough | 694 | — | 49.8 | 24% | 27% |
| Keinton Mandeville | 1,216 | 2.7 mi | 50.7 | 26% | 27% |
| Glastonbury | 8,304 | 3.6 mi | 50.6 | 25% | 20% |
| Street | 12,707 | 3.7 mi | 41.9 | 21% | 26% |
| Walton | 1,149 | 4.8 mi | 47.3 | 25% | 30% |
| Pilton | 1,104 | 4.9 mi | 51.9 | 28% | 23% |
| Somerton | 5,106 | 5.3 mi | 50 | 30% | 24% |
| Castle Cary | 3,451 | 6.2 mi | 51.9 | 32% | 21% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Somerset’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Somerset (or England), summed the same way as Baltonsborough’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 Baltonsborough’s residents
What is the population of Baltonsborough?
The 2021 Census counted 694 people in Baltonsborough’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Baltonsborough?
The median age was 49.8 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Baltonsborough?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 7.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Baltonsborough?
42% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 7.6% didn’t answer.
Is Baltonsborough good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Baltonsborough’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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