Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Bicknoller is over 63.8
The figure for households in detached houses is 74% in Bicknoller and 21% across England’s towns. Still, on households in terraced houses, Bicknoller sits lower than 95% of UK towns: 7.1%. In 2021, the Census found 373 residents here, living in 186 households. Households with dependent children: 12% of the total.
Residents aged 65 and over: 47%, a higher share than 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
70–74 is the most common age band: 15% of residents, 3.1 times the share across England’s towns. To put it in context, 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 88 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 smaller share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 2.3%
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 nearly two in five adults here, routine and semi-routine work 12% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). 6.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a lower share than in 96% of UK towns. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 99% of UK towns: 1.1%
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 average household has 2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. One-person households are rarer here than in 71% of UK towns. As a reference point, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
A lower share of households in flats than 96% of UK towns, at 2.2%
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
24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns, against 6.5% in Bicknoller. For households in flats, the comparison across England’s towns is 23%.
Bicknoller sits above 99% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (100%)
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 outside the UK make up 3.8%, against 18% across England’s towns. As a reference point, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%).
Bicknoller ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 98%
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: 98% of Bicknoller · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 46% across England’s towns, 64% of residents describe themselves as Christian here. As a yardstick, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. For Bicknoller, the census puts residents with no religion at 29%.
Adults who have never married make up 15% in Bicknoller, less 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
9 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Measured more widely, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 67%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 99% of UK towns. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns: 9.3%.
Among adults, 36% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Bicknoller, 36%, and 9.5% have none, against 18%.
Bicknoller is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bicknoller | 373 | — | 63.8 | 47% | 12% |
| Williton | 2,433 | 2.3 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 20% |
| Watchet | 3,643 | 3.3 mi | 51.8 | 31% | 19% |
| Nether Stowey | 1,483 | 5 mi | 52.6 | 34% | 21% |
| Bishops Lydeard | 2,050 | 7.2 mi | 50.9 | 30% | 24% |
| Wiveliscombe | 2,316 | 7.3 mi | 51 | 29% | 23% |
| Cotford St Luke | 2,411 | 8.2 mi | 36.9 | 12% | 39% |
| Milverton | 1,112 | 8.4 mi | 53.9 | 30% | 22% |
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 Bicknoller’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 Bicknoller’s residents
What is the population of Bicknoller?
The 2021 Census counted 373 people in Bicknoller’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bicknoller?
The median age was 63.8 at the 2021 Census. 4.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 47% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bicknoller?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bicknoller?
29% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 7% didn’t answer.
Is Bicknoller good for families?
12% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bicknoller’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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