Photo: Celiakozlowski · CC BY 3.0Half of Long Load is over 59.7, older than 99% of UK towns
Compared with 21% across England’s towns, nearly three in five households live in a detached house here. The 2021 Census put Long Load’s population at 314, in 147 households. Locally, 11% of households have dependent children. Fewer households in terraced houses than in 96% of UK towns: 6.8%.
Above 99% of UK towns: 41% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 12% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over 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.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 89% of UK towns: 6.7%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 36% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 17% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Few places have so few full-time students: 4.5% here, fewer than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. Measured more widely, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 87% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 4.1%, close to the figure across England’s towns. In Long Load, 31% of households are one person living alone.
6.8% of households have no car or van, below 96% 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 flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. In one household in 15 there is no car or van.
Long Load sits above 99% of UK towns for 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
The largest groups were born in Africa (3.8%) and in EU countries (1.9%). As a yardstick, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. More residents born outside the UK than in 50% of UK towns: 6.4%.
Long Load ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 98%
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: 98% of Long Load · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Christians make up 61% of residents, against 46% across England’s towns. Against that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The share of residents with no religion stands at 31%.
Adults who have never married make up 22% in Long Load, less than in 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
Married adults and civil partners make up 57%, against 44% across England’s towns. The benchmark for adults who have never married across England’s towns: 39%. 13 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Few places have as many unpaid carers: 9.7% here, more than in 60% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 35% 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 Long Load, 35%, and 19% have none, against 18%.
Every nearby town is younger than Long Load
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Load | 314 | — | 59.7 | 41% | 11% |
| Martock | 4,079 | 2.2 mi | 50.8 | 29% | 20% |
| Stoke sub Hamdon | 1,360 | 3.5 mi | 51.2 | 27% | 22% |
| Langport | 3,578 | 3.5 mi | 50.4 | 29% | 22% |
| Somerton | 5,106 | 3.6 mi | 50 | 30% | 24% |
| Ilchester | 2,062 | 3.6 mi | 35.3 | 14% | 37% |
| South Petherton | 3,096 | 4.4 mi | 53.5 | 35% | 22% |
| Curry Rivel | 2,009 | 4.8 mi | 52.6 | 32% | 23% |
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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 Long Load’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 Long Load’s residents
What is the population of Long Load?
The 2021 Census counted 314 people in Long Load’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Long Load?
The median age was 59.7 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 41% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Long Load?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Long Load?
31% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Long Load good for families?
11% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Long Load’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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