Photo: ChurchCrawler · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 0.7% of households live in a terraced house
Across England’s towns, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment; in Felton, 1.5%. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 94% of UK towns. Its 143 households held 370 residents at the 2021 Census. One-person households: 15% of the total.
Felton is older than 84% of UK towns: a median age of 50
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.1%, below 70% of UK towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 26% in Felton.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Felton ranks below 95% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.5%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 3%, against 11% across England’s towns. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Felton households average 2.7 people, larger than in 98% 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.
At 4.2%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is in line with the figure across England’s towns. Nearly a quarter of households have dependent children, a lower share than in 85% of UK towns.
Households without a car or van make up 3.6% in Felton, less than in 99% 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
Households in detached houses: 73% here and 21% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 1.9% in Felton, less than in 99% 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
Most residents from abroad were born in the rest of Europe (0.8%) or in EU countries (0.5%). Across the comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. In Felton, 100% of residents have English as their main language, beside 90% across England’s towns.
Felton: 99% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 99% 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: 99% of Felton · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Christians make up just over half of residents, against 46% across England’s towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%. Here, 42% of residents said they have no religion.
Felton: 60% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 98% 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
For 7 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Lower than in 96% of UK towns: 7.1% of residents give unpaid care.
23% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
23% of Felton’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 14% have none (18%).
Felton is younger than 2 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felton | 370 | — | 50 | 26% | 23% |
| Backwell | 4,347 | 3 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 34% |
| Long Ashton | 5,184 | 3 mi | 42.6 | 19% | 37% |
| Chew Magna | 1,249 | 3.5 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 25% |
| Wrington | 1,997 | 3.9 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 26% |
| Nailsea | 15,919 | 4.3 mi | 50.9 | 30% | 24% |
| Blagdon | 1,056 | 4.5 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 27% |
| Congresbury | 2,795 | 5.3 mi | 49.2 | 28% | 25% |
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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 Felton’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 Felton’s residents
What is the population of Felton?
The 2021 Census counted 370 people in Felton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Felton?
The median age was 50 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Felton?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 1.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Felton?
42% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7% didn’t answer.
Is Felton good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Felton’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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