Photo: ChurchCrawler · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Blackford is over 52.2, older than 92% of UK towns
The figure for households in detached houses is 76% in Blackford and 21% across England’s towns. The share of households without a car or van stands at 4.3%. The village has fewer one-person households than 97% of UK towns, at 20%. The 2021 Census counted 686 residents in 280 households.
Blackford: 26% of residents are 65 or over, above 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 110 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 81% of UK towns: 7.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Blackford has 44% and 16%. To put it in context, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. 6% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Blackford households average 2.4 people, larger than in 84% 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.
Blackford sits close to the norm on shared households of unrelated adults: 4.3%, about the same as across England’s towns. Locally, 28% of households have dependent children.
Blackford sits below 99% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (0.7%)
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
In Blackford, 2.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, beside 23% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Blackford sits above 90% of UK towns for 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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.6%) or in Africa (1%). Compared with other places, residents born outside the UK are scarce here: 3.8%, fewer than in four fifths of UK towns.
Blackford: 97% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 96% 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: 97% of Blackford · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 56%, against 46% across England’s towns. 37% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 72% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 63%
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
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 7.8%, from the figure across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. In Blackford, 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 43% of adults
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 Blackford, 43%, and 12% have none, against 18%.
Older than Blackford: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackford | 686 | — | 52.2 | 26% | 28% |
| Wedmore | 1,424 | 1.1 mi | 56.6 | 38% | 21% |
| Draycott | 1,069 | 4.4 mi | 51.5 | 28% | 25% |
| Axbridge | 1,998 | 4.7 mi | 49.2 | 24% | 25% |
| Cheddar | 5,841 | 4.7 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 25% |
| Woolavington | 2,324 | 5.7 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Highbridge | 5,366 | 5.9 mi | 42 | 21% | 28% |
| Burnham-on-Sea | 16,317 | 6.7 mi | 53.3 | 33% | 20% |
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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 Blackford’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 Blackford’s residents
What is the population of Blackford?
The 2021 Census counted 686 people in Blackford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Blackford?
The median age was 52.2 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Blackford?
97% 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 Blackford?
37% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Blackford good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Blackford’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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