Photo: Bill Boaden · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 58.2: Crowcombe is older than 99% of UK towns
Households with dependent children make up 17%, against 29% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census, 194 people lived in Crowcombe, in 90 households. On the census count, 97% of residents describe themselves as White British. Compared with other places, households in detached houses are common here: 46%, more than in 85% of UK towns.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 38% in Crowcombe, more than in 98% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 7.8%, against 12% across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
57% women, 43% men
About 76 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.
Crowcombe sits below 99% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (3.6%)
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 work; in Crowcombe, 28% and 17%. By way of comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. In Crowcombe, 5.8% 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.
Shared houses: 6.7% of households are unrelated adults, more than in 97% 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.
Households average 2.1 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. 30% of households are one person living alone.
Below 87% of UK towns: 11% of households live in a terraced 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
Against a figure of 23% across England’s towns, the share of households in flats in Crowcombe comes in at 5.4%. Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%. In one household in 9 there is no car or van.
Crowcombe ranks above 64% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 8.1%
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 whose main language is English tops 53% of UK towns: 98%. The largest groups were born in EU countries (4.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.5%). Across the comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
58% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 90% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Crowcombe · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Crowcombe sits close to the norm on residents with no religion: 37%, about the same as across England’s towns. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%.
In Crowcombe, 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 93% 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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 2. 53% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 81% of UK towns. The wider picture: 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Where 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Crowcombe has 10%.
38% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 38% of Crowcombe’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification (18%).
No nearby town is as old as Crowcombe
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowcombe | 194 | — | 58.2 | 38% | 17% |
| Nether Stowey | 1,483 | 3.8 mi | 52.6 | 34% | 21% |
| Williton | 2,433 | 4.5 mi | 52.1 | 32% | 20% |
| Bishops Lydeard | 2,050 | 5.1 mi | 50.9 | 30% | 24% |
| Watchet | 3,643 | 5.5 mi | 51.8 | 31% | 19% |
| Cotford St Luke | 2,411 | 6.2 mi | 36.9 | 12% | 39% |
| Wiveliscombe | 2,316 | 6.5 mi | 51 | 29% | 23% |
| Milverton | 1,112 | 7 mi | 53.9 | 30% | 22% |
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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 Crowcombe’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 Crowcombe’s residents
What is the population of Crowcombe?
The 2021 Census counted 194 people in Crowcombe’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Crowcombe?
The median age was 58.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 38% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Crowcombe?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 8.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Crowcombe?
37% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.1% didn’t answer.
Is Crowcombe good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Crowcombe’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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