Photo: Martin Bodman · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Blagdon Hill is over 53.9, older than 95% of UK towns
Households with dependent children: 22% here and 29% across England’s towns. 555 residents in 235 households: that is Blagdon Hill at the 2021 Census. The share of households without a car or van stands at 3.9%. The village has fewer households in terraced houses than 93% of UK towns, at 8.2%.
Above 81% of UK towns: 27% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. One in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Blagdon Hill sits above 89% of UK towns for full-time students (6.5%)
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Blagdon Hill has 48% and 16%. The census found that 9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here. The share of full-time students across England’s towns is 7.9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 22% of households in Blagdon Hill 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.
Compared with 4.3% across England’s towns, 2.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home here. There are 2.4 people in the average household. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison.
67% of households live in a detached house, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Flats are home to 3.4% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. The benchmark for households in detached houses across England’s towns: 21%.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 90% of UK towns, at 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%). Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK in Blagdon Hill comes in at 6.1%.
Above 74% of UK towns: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British
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 Blagdon Hill · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 40% here and 37% across England’s towns. For residents who describe themselves as White British, the comparison across England’s towns is 73%. The census found that 52% of residents describe themselves as Christian in Blagdon Hill.
In Blagdon Hill, 65% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more 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
21% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; across England’s towns the figure is 39%. Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. In Blagdon Hill, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care.
Degree-level qualifications reach 47% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 47% of Blagdon Hill’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification (18%). A levels are the highest qualification of 15%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Blagdon Hill is younger than 1 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blagdon Hill | 555 | — | 53.9 | 27% | 22% |
| Trull | 1,427 | 2.3 mi | 49.6 | 29% | 29% |
| Taunton | 61,667 | 4 mi | 41.9 | 21% | 26% |
| Wellington | 13,815 | 4.7 mi | 45 | 24% | 25% |
| Norton Fitzwarren | 3,770 | 4.7 mi | 35.7 | 14% | 31% |
| Ruishton | 1,476 | 5 mi | 54.1 | 33% | 22% |
| Rockwell Green | 2,854 | 5.4 mi | 46.7 | 22% | 27% |
| Hemyock | 1,674 | 5.5 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 28% |
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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 Blagdon Hill’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 Blagdon Hill’s residents
What is the population of Blagdon Hill?
The 2021 Census counted 555 people in Blagdon Hill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Blagdon Hill?
The median age was 53.9 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Blagdon Hill?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Blagdon Hill?
40% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Blagdon Hill good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Blagdon Hill’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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