Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Lower Weare is over 54.1, older than 95% of UK towns
One-person households: 21%, below 97% of UK towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. There were 135 households in Lower Weare at the 2021 Census, home to 326 residents. The census found that 3.7% of households have no car or van in the village.
Lower Weare ranks below 95% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 7.7%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: 31% of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 2.6%, 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%.
By class, 44% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 18% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Nearly one in ten residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
In Lower Weare, 21% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 91% 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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Across Lower Weare, 3.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. The share of households with dependent children across England’s towns is 29%.
More detached houses than 99% of UK towns: 68% of households
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
13% of households live in a terraced house; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. The comparison figure for households in detached houses is 21% across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 97% 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
The share of residents born outside the UK trails just over four fifths of UK towns: 3.7%. Residents whose main language is English make up 90% across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in Africa (0.9%).
48% said they have no religion, more than in 87% 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 Lower Weare · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Mixed or multiple (2.7%), Other White (0.9%) and African (0.3%). The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 37% across England’s towns. Higher than in just over four fifths of UK towns: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 49% here and 46% across England’s towns.
More married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns: 64%
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
The figure for unpaid carers is 12% in Lower Weare and 8.7% across England’s towns. The benchmark for married adults and civil partners across England’s towns: 44%. The share of adults who have never married stands at 21%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 41%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Lower Weare, 11%, while 41% hold one at degree level (34%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Lower Weare 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
- “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 Lower Weare’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 Lower Weare’s residents
What is the population of Lower Weare?
The 2021 Census counted 326 people in Lower Weare’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lower Weare?
The median age was 54.1 at the 2021 Census. 7.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lower Weare?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lower Weare?
48% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 2.8% didn’t answer.
Is Lower Weare good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lower Weare’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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