Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Street ranks above 96% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 14%
With residents with no religion at 44%, Street is ahead of 70% of UK towns on that count. The 2021 Census put the town’s population at 12,707, in 5,242 households. Adults who have never married: 36% of the total. Households in flats are more common here than in just over two thirds of UK towns.
Since 2011, Street has grown +9%, faster than 58% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Street’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 11,800 people in 2011; 12,900 in 2024.
Split by age, the 65 and over changed most (+29%) and the 16 to 29 least (−2%). The largest rise in a single year came from mid-2011 to mid-2012: 260 people.
Younger than 70% of UK towns: half of Street is under 41.9
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 15–19, with one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 21%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Street, 41.9. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
9.4% of adults are full-time students, more than in 96% 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%.
28% of Street’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 29% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year are more common here than in 87% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 7.9% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
A larger share of one-person households than 78% of UK towns: 33%
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.
The average household has 2.2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. For comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The share of households with dependent children stands at 26%. On shared households of unrelated adults, Street sits higher than 73% of UK towns: 2.9%.
Below 75% of UK towns: 19% of households live in a detached house
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
Across England’s towns, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van; in Street, 16%. 15% of households live in a flat, more than in 68% of UK towns; 19% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. In Street, 25% of households live in a terraced house.
Residents born outside the UK: 8.1%, a higher share than 64% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (2%). Fewer residents whose main language is English than in 62% of UK towns: 97%. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Arrivals from 2017 on account for 29% of residents born abroad, beside 21% across England’s towns.
A lower White British share than 59% of UK towns: 91% of residents
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: 91% of Street · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British. Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (4.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.8%) and African (0.5%).
8% of residents give unpaid care, below 84% 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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 294. Married adults and civil partners are rarer here than in just over three quarters of UK towns. The comparison figure for unpaid carers is 8.7% across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 26% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 26% of its adults qualified to degree level, Street compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 19% hold no qualification (18%). Students still working towards a degree help explain why A levels are the highest qualification of 18%.
105th lowest median age among 382 UK towns of 9,000 to 17,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Aberystwyth (25), the youngest, and Sidmouth (60.4), the oldest. Nearest to Street in age: Bishop's Cleeve (41.9), Southborough (41.9), Flitwick (42) and Tyldesley (42.1).
The towns around Street are all older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Street | 12,707 | — | 41.9 | 21% | 26% |
| Walton | 1,149 | 1.1 mi | 47.3 | 25% | 30% |
| Glastonbury | 8,304 | 2.2 mi | 50.6 | 25% | 20% |
| Somerton | 5,106 | 4.7 mi | 50 | 30% | 24% |
| Keinton Mandeville | 1,216 | 5.3 mi | 50.7 | 26% | 27% |
| Langport | 3,578 | 6.7 mi | 50.4 | 29% | 22% |
| Wells | 12,097 | 7.2 mi | 50.7 | 30% | 22% |
| Pilton | 1,104 | 7.4 mi | 51.9 | 28% | 23% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Street’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Street’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 12,707 people in 2021, against 12,707 in the built-up area.
- 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 Street’s residents
What is the population of Street?
The 2021 Census counted 12,707 people in Street’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 12,900 people in mid-2024, 9% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Street?
The median age was 41.9 at the 2021 Census, younger than 70% of UK towns. 14% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Street?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 8.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Street?
44% said they had no religion and 46% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 7.3% didn’t answer.
Is Street good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Street’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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