Photo: John Baker · CC BY-SA 2.0A lower share of households in flats than 97% of UK towns, at 1.9%
With one-person households at 23%, Ditcheat is behind 92% of UK towns on that count. Few places have so few unpaid carers: 6.4% here, fewer than in 98% of UK towns. 392 residents in 162 households: that is Ditcheat at the 2021 Census. Census figures put households without a car or van at 7.5% in the village.
A median age of 49.3: Ditcheat is older than 82% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
13% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (England’s towns: 12%). Residents aged 65 and over: 27% of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 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.
In Ditcheat, 4.3% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 73% of UK towns
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%.
Compared with 11% across England’s towns, 7.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Ditcheat households average 2.4 people, larger than in 81% 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.
5.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across England’s towns the figure is 4.3%. At 27%, the share of households with dependent children is lower than in 52% of UK towns.
50% of households live in a detached house, a share 89% 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
Nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, against 15% in Ditcheat. Households in detached houses make up 21% across England’s towns.
Ditcheat ranks above 99% of UK towns on 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
3.3% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. Set beside that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.3%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.3%).
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 81% 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: 95% of Ditcheat · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
In Ditcheat, 45% of residents said they have no religion, beside 37% across England’s towns. Typically, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. On the census count, 47% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
Ditcheat: 50% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 65% 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
Here, 32% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Married adults and civil partners: 44% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 30% 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 Ditcheat, 30%, and 16% have none, against 18%.
Ditcheat and its 7 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ditcheat | 392 | — | 49.3 | 27% | 27% |
| Evercreech | 2,165 | 2.1 mi | 49.1 | 26% | 23% |
| Castle Cary | 3,451 | 2.4 mi | 51.9 | 32% | 21% |
| Pilton | 1,104 | 3.7 mi | 51.9 | 28% | 23% |
| Bruton | 2,816 | 3.7 mi | 42.3 | 20% | 29% |
| Shepton Mallet | 9,645 | 4.6 mi | 41.4 | 19% | 27% |
| Keinton Mandeville | 1,216 | 5.9 mi | 50.7 | 26% | 27% |
| Wincanton | 6,744 | 7.2 mi | 41.9 | 22% | 28% |
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 Ditcheat’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 Ditcheat’s residents
What is the population of Ditcheat?
The 2021 Census counted 392 people in Ditcheat’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ditcheat?
The median age was 49.3 at the 2021 Census. 13% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ditcheat?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ditcheat?
45% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 7.9% didn’t answer.
Is Ditcheat good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ditcheat’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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