Photo: Chris Andrews · CC BY-SA 2.00.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
The share of households without a car or van trails 98% of UK towns: 5.8%. At the same time, at 27%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is higher than in 79% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 331 residents and 140 households in Spaxton. For Spaxton, the census puts unpaid carers at 15%.
Half of Spaxton is over 48.6, older than 77% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 65–69 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 9%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Spaxton sits below 96% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (6.1%)
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%.
Where 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns, Spaxton has 6.6%. The usual figure: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Spaxton households average 2.4 people, larger than in 78% 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.
Here 27% of households are one person living alone, where the figure across England’s towns is 30%. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 62% of UK towns. Across Spaxton, 29% of households have dependent children.
35% of households live in a detached house, more than in 65% 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
Census figures put households in terraced houses at 20% in Spaxton. 0.7% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 35% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Spaxton ranks below 87% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 3.3%
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
By its share of residents whose main language is English (98%), Spaxton is above nearly three fifths of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.2%) and in Africa (0.9%).
Spaxton ranks above 88% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 96%
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: 96% of Spaxton · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Muslims make up 1.5% of residents. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 73% across England’s towns. 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a higher share than in 68% of UK towns. Add to that, across England’s towns, 37% of residents said they have no religion; in Spaxton, 41%.
Fewer adults who have never married than 76% of UK towns: 29%
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 share of married adults and civil partners is 51%, against 44% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 9 residents.
Degree-level qualifications reach 27% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 27% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 16% hold no qualification (18%). A levels are as far as 19% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
4 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Spaxton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spaxton | 331 | — | 48.6 | 27% | 29% |
| Cannington | 2,315 | 2.7 mi | 48.3 | 26% | 21% |
| Nether Stowey | 1,483 | 2.9 mi | 52.6 | 34% | 21% |
| Wembdon | 1,772 | 3.7 mi | 51.3 | 28% | 25% |
| Bridgwater | 47,846 | 4.7 mi | 37.5 | 15% | 31% |
| North Petherton | 3,180 | 4.7 mi | 50.5 | 29% | 23% |
| Bishops Lydeard | 2,050 | 5.6 mi | 50.9 | 30% | 24% |
| Puriton | 2,265 | 6.5 mi | 47.5 | 26% | 26% |
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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 Spaxton’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 Spaxton’s residents
What is the population of Spaxton?
The 2021 Census counted 331 people in Spaxton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Spaxton?
The median age was 48.6 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Spaxton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Spaxton?
41% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.5% were Muslim and 2.7% didn’t answer.
Is Spaxton good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Spaxton’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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