Photo: Anthony O'Neil · CC BY-SA 2.0More households with dependent children than 95% of UK towns: 36%
6.6% of households have no car or van, against 24% across England’s towns. Cambridge Batch is home to 407 residents in 148 households, by the 2021 Census. Census figures put households in flats at 2% in the village. At 15%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is lower than in 89% of UK towns.
A young village: 13% of residents are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 45–49: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. To put it in context, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. With a median age of 44.9, Cambridge Batch is older than 53% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 86% of UK towns: 6.9% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 55% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 11% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Full-time students: 6.3% of the total.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
One-person households: 22%, a lower share than 96% 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 average household has 2.7 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. For comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults are more common here than in 67% of UK towns.
Above 96% of UK towns: 59% of households live in a detached house
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
16% of households live in a terraced house; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Measured more widely, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns: 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
The share of residents born outside the UK trails just over four fifths of UK towns: 3.7%. Set beside that, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in Africa (1.7%) or in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%).
Cambridge Batch: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 80% 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: 95% of Cambridge Batch · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 45% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. Fewer residents who describe themselves as Christian than in 71% of UK towns: 46%. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%. Besides White British, the main groups are Mixed or multiple (1.5%), Other White (1.2%) and Indian (1.2%).
Above 99% of UK towns: 62% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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 12 residents. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 28% here, fewer than in 82% of UK towns. The share of unpaid carers trails 97% of UK towns: 6.9%.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 55% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Cambridge Batch counts 55% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 6.9% have no qualification (18%). Many still at university: 15% list A levels as their highest qualification.
Older than Cambridge Batch: 4 of the 7 towns nearby
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Cambridge Batch’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 Cambridge Batch’s residents
What is the population of Cambridge Batch?
The 2021 Census counted 407 people in Cambridge Batch’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cambridge Batch?
The median age was 44.9 at the 2021 Census. 13% of residents were 15 to 24 and 15% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cambridge Batch?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cambridge Batch?
45% said they had no religion and 46% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Cambridge Batch good for families?
36% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cambridge Batch’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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