Photo: Maurice Pullin · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of one-person households than 97% of UK towns: 20%
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Oakhill comes in at 6.4%. For Oakhill, the census puts married adults and civil partners at 57%. Half of the village’s residents are over 48.4, older than in just over three quarters of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Oakhill was home to 757 people in 304 households.
Above 72% of UK towns: 25% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Oakhill has 9.5%. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
In Oakhill, 4.6% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 58% 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%.
In Oakhill, 10% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, beside 11% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 1.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Oakhill
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 are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 29%. As a yardstick, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. The average household has 2.5 people.
Oakhill sits above 81% of UK towns for households in detached houses (43%)
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
Nearly one in ten households live in a flat or apartment; across England’s towns the figure is 23%. The share of households in detached houses across England’s towns is 21%. Households in terraced houses are more common here than in 63% of UK towns.
Oakhill: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 71% 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
6.9% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. For comparison, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.4%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.7%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 69% of UK towns, at 94%
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: 94% of Oakhill · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.4%), Caribbean (1.3%) and Mixed or multiple (0.8%). For comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. More residents with no religion than in 64% of UK towns: 43%. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 50% here and 46% across England’s towns.
Oakhill ranks below 84% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 27%
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
15 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 39%. Compared with other places, unpaid carers are common here: 10%, more than in 68% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 40% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 40% of Oakhill’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 10% have no qualification (18%).
Around Oakhill, 3 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakhill | 757 | — | 48.4 | 25% | 29% |
| Shepton Mallet | 9,645 | 2.5 mi | 41.4 | 19% | 27% |
| Chilcompton | 1,857 | 2.9 mi | 48.1 | 23% | 29% |
| Coleford | 2,235 | 3.7 mi | 46.4 | 22% | 27% |
| Midsomer Norton | 13,749 | 4.5 mi | 43.8 | 22% | 28% |
| Pilton | 1,104 | 4.7 mi | 51.9 | 28% | 23% |
| Evercreech | 2,165 | 5.2 mi | 49.1 | 26% | 23% |
| Wells | 12,097 | 5.4 mi | 50.7 | 30% | 22% |
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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 Oakhill’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 Oakhill’s residents
What is the population of Oakhill?
The 2021 Census counted 757 people in Oakhill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Oakhill?
The median age was 48.4 at the 2021 Census. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Oakhill?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 6.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Oakhill?
43% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Oakhill good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Oakhill’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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