Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0Easton is older than 89% of UK towns: a median age of 50.8
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The 2021 Census counted 341 residents in 151 households. On the census count, 61% of households live in a detached house. Compared with 39% across England’s towns, 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 8.3% in Easton, less than in 90% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 9.4% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 26%. Measured more widely, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s 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.
Residents who moved in within the year: 2.1%, a lower share than 99% 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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Easton has 38% and 20%. The wider picture: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. 5.7% 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.
2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 70% 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 with dependent children: 26% here and 29% across England’s towns. On the census count, 28% of households are one person living alone. For comparison, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
A lower share of households without a car or van than 96% of UK towns, at 6.7%
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
24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, against 9.4% in Easton. In one household in 15 there is no car or van.
Residents whose main language is English: 99%, a higher share than 90% of UK towns
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
7% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.4%), then in the Middle East and Asia (2.4%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 95% in Easton, more than in 73% 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 Easton · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents with no religion is 44% in Easton and 37% across England’s towns. For Easton, the census puts residents who describe themselves as Christian at 45%.
55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 89% 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
Census figures put unpaid carers at 9.2% in Easton. 24% of the village’s adults have never married or formed a civil partnership and 55% are married, against 39% and 44% across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 36% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Easton counts 36% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 10% have no qualification (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Easton, 3 are older
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 Easton’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 Easton’s residents
What is the population of Easton?
The 2021 Census counted 341 people in Easton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Easton?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Easton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Easton?
44% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 8.8% didn’t answer.
Is Easton good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Easton’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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