Photo: dbown100 · CC BY 3.0Banwell is older than 88% of UK towns: a median age of 50.6
Here 10% of households have no car or van, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. The census found that 11% of households live in a terraced house in Banwell. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in four fifths of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 2,178 residents here, living in 964 households.
What the Census says about Banwell’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Banwell’s residents are under 50.6 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
More residents aged 65 and over than 86% of UK towns: 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Banwell has 10%. Against that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
In Banwell, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 83% of UK towns
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%.
4.8% of adults are full-time students; across England’s towns the figure is 7.9%. Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Banwell, 35% and 25%.
Only 27% of households in Banwell are one person living alone
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.
4.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, about the same as across England’s towns. A household here holds 2.3 people on average. Against that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Banwell sits below 88% of UK towns for households in flats (3.9%)
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
Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%; Banwell has 41%. The comparison figure for households in flats is 23% across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 5.2% in Banwell, less than in 62% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
98% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (3.2%) or in Africa (0.8%).
Banwell sits above 78% of UK towns for residents with no religion (45%)
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: 95% of Banwell · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.2%) and Chinese (0.4%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 95%, more than in three quarters of UK towns. Set beside that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns, against 48% in Banwell.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 82% of UK towns: 28%
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 83 residents. Unpaid carers are more common here than in 88% of UK towns. Set beside that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. The share of married adults and civil partners tops 77% of UK towns: 52%.
Qualified to degree level: 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Banwell, 30% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 19% have no qualification at all (18%).
Around Banwell, 3 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banwell | 2,178 | — | 50.6 | 28% | 24% |
| Locking | 3,819 | 1.7 mi | 38.7 | 18% | 35% |
| Winscombe and Sandford | 4,605 | 1.7 mi | 53.8 | 34% | 22% |
| West Wick | 2,425 | 2.1 mi | 33.3 | 7.4% | 45% |
| Hutton | 1,686 | 2.5 mi | 57.8 | 38% | 18% |
| Shipham | 1,104 | 3.4 mi | 53.1 | 30% | 24% |
| Weston-super-Mare | 84,600 | 3.5 mi | 43.1 | 21% | 27% |
| Churchill | 1,989 | 3.7 mi | 41.6 | 21% | 30% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Banwell’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 Banwell’s residents
What is the population of Banwell?
The 2021 Census counted 2,178 people in Banwell’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Banwell?
The median age was 50.6 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Banwell?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 5.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Banwell?
45% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Banwell good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Banwell’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.