Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 81% of UK towns: half of Timsbury is over 49.2
23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, against 5.4% in Timsbury. Census day 2021: 2,506 residents and 1,082 households here. Here, just over one in ten households have no car or van. The town has more residents who describe themselves as White British than 84% of UK towns, at 96%.
Timsbury changed by +4% from 2011 to 2024, slower than 65% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Timsbury’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 2,600 people in 2011; 2,700 in 2024.
Between mid-2015 and mid-2016 the population rose by 90, its biggest one-year gain.
More residents aged 65 and over than 84% of UK towns: 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.9% here and 12% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Timsbury, 49.2. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 71% of UK towns: 7.8%
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, 36% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Set beside that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Census figures put full-time students at 4.9% in Timsbury.
Fewer households with dependent children than 78% of UK towns: 24%
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.
30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, against 28% in Timsbury. As a reference point, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Locally, 3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Fewer households in detached houses than 55% of UK towns: 27%
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
23% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). Households in detached houses: 21% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Timsbury sits below 82% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (3.7%)
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
Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language; in Timsbury, 99%. Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in Africa (0.7%).
Above 65% of UK towns: 43% of residents said they have no religion
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 Timsbury · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 46% across England’s towns, nearly half of residents describe themselves as Christian here. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (2.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.2%) and African (0.1%). Against that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
50% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 64% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Some 72 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, Timsbury sits higher than nearly three quarters of UK towns: 10%. Compared with 39% across England’s towns, 31% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 34%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 34% of Timsbury’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification (18%).
68th oldest of 219 UK towns of 2,500 to 3,000 people
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 Keele (20.6), the youngest, and St Mary's Bay (60.8), the oldest. Nearest to Timsbury in age: Kidwelly (49.1), Congresbury (49.2), Petworth (49.2) and Costessey (49.4).
No nearby town is as old as Timsbury
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timsbury | 2,506 | — | 49.2 | 28% | 24% |
| Farmborough | 1,106 | 1.1 mi | 48.2 | 26% | 25% |
| High Littleton | 1,655 | 1.5 mi | 46 | 23% | 29% |
| Paulton | 6,502 | 1.8 mi | 39.8 | 20% | 30% |
| Peasedown St John | 6,668 | 2.5 mi | 43.2 | 19% | 30% |
| Clutton | 1,630 | 2.7 mi | 41.9 | 19% | 36% |
| Radstock | 9,983 | 2.7 mi | 38.5 | 17% | 32% |
| Temple Cloud | 1,518 | 2.8 mi | 42.7 | 20% | 31% |
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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 Timsbury’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. Timsbury’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 2,637 people in 2021, against 2,506 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 Timsbury’s residents
What is the population of Timsbury?
The 2021 Census counted 2,506 people in Timsbury’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 2,700 people in mid-2024, 4% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Timsbury?
The median age was 49.2 at the 2021 Census, older than 81% of UK towns. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Timsbury?
96% 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 Timsbury?
43% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6.9% didn’t answer.
Is Timsbury good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Timsbury’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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