Photo: Maurice Pullin · CC BY-SA 2.0Bathford is older than 88% of UK towns: a median age of 50.7
Detached houses are home to 46% of households, against 21% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 4.9%, fewer than in 84% of UK towns. There were 502 households in Bathford at the 2021 Census, home to 1,153 residents. Here, 56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
What the Census says about Bathford’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Bathford’s residents are under 50.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% 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).
29% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
9.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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 Bathford, 6.4% of adults are full-time students, more than in 88% 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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 7.9%, below 68% of UK towns. By class, 50% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 14% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%).
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 70% 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.
The figure for households with dependent children is 26% in Bathford and 29% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. There are 2.3 people in the average household. One-person households are rarer here than in 58% of UK towns.
In Bathford, 27% of households live in a terraced house, more than in 77% 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
11% of households have no car or van (England’s towns: 24%).
7.5% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 60% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Where 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Bathford has 98%. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.9%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2%).
93% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 55% 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: 93% of Bathford · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (4.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.7%) and Chinese (0.4%). Set beside that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 50%, more than in 55% of UK towns. 41% of residents said they have no religion (England’s towns: 37%).
Adults who have never married: 27%, a lower share than 84% 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
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 8.6%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 39%. 31 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week.
Among adults, 52% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Bathford counts 52% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 11% have no qualification (18%). A levels are as far as 15% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Bathford sits below 1 of its 7 closest neighbours on 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bathford | 1,153 | — | 50.7 | 29% | 26% |
| Batheaston | 3,878 | 1 mi | 46.1 | 21% | 29% |
| Bathampton | 1,698 | 1.2 mi | 49.3 | 29% | 28% |
| Box | 1,287 | 2.4 mi | 49.3 | 25% | 31% |
| Bath | 94,080 | 3.5 mi | 35.2 | 17% | 23% |
| Winsley | 1,365 | 3.5 mi | 53.1 | 33% | 27% |
| Colerne | 2,415 | 3.6 mi | 37.9 | 18% | 38% |
| Rudloe | 2,863 | 3.7 mi | 42.3 | 21% | 32% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Bathford’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 Bathford’s residents
What is the population of Bathford?
The 2021 Census counted 1,153 people in Bathford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bathford?
The median age was 50.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bathford?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 7.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bathford?
41% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Bathford good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bathford’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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