Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock · CC BY-SA 2.0Draycott is older than 91% of UK towns: a median age of 51.5
The share of households without a car or van is 5.3%, against 24% across England’s towns. Higher than in 97% of UK towns: 61% of households live in a detached house. The 2021 Census counted 1,069 residents in 436 households. In Draycott, 55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
What the Census says about Draycott’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Draycott’s residents are under 51.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Draycott sits above 85% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (28%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. Against that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. The census found that 9.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Draycott.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
Above 64% of UK towns: 5.1% of adults are full-time students
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%.
In Draycott, two in five adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, a higher share than in 59% of UK towns. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
22% of households are one person living alone, below 95% 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.
There is little gap on shared households of unrelated adults: 4.6%, about the same as across England’s towns. For comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Households with dependent children account for 25%.
Households in terraced houses make up 8.5% in Draycott, less than in 92% of UK towns
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
The share of households in flats is 3.7%, against 23% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 82% 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
Here 6% of residents were born outside the UK, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.8%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.1%).
Draycott: 58% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 89% 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 Draycott · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Nothing unusual on residents with no religion: 37%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. For Draycott, the census puts residents who describe themselves as White British at 95%.
Below 84% of UK towns: 27% of adults have never married or formed 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
Some 24 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Set beside that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 9%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 61% of UK towns.
36% of adults are qualified to degree level
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 Draycott, 36%, and 14% have none, against 18%.
A younger town than 3 of the 7 around it: Draycott
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 Draycott’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 Draycott’s residents
What is the population of Draycott?
The 2021 Census counted 1,069 people in Draycott’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Draycott?
The median age was 51.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Draycott?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Draycott?
37% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Draycott good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Draycott’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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