Photo: Pam Goodey · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 90% of UK towns: half of Wembdon is over 51.3
8% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Few places have so few households in terraced houses: 9% here, fewer than in 91% of UK towns. Wembdon’s 762 households held 1,772 residents at the 2021 Census. Married adults and civil partners account for 59%.
What the Census says about Wembdon’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Wembdon’s residents are under 51.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Wembdon sits above 86% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (28%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 9.9%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 4.4%, a lower share than 70% 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%.
38% of Wembdon’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 21% 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 52% of UK towns. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%.
24% of households are one person living alone, 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.
Households with dependent children: 25%, below 72% of UK towns. Across Wembdon, 1.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Against that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Households in detached houses: 53%, a higher share than 92% 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
Where 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, Wembdon has 4.9%. Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%.
3.4% of residents were born outside the UK, below 86% 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
99% of residents have English as their main language; across England’s towns the figure is 90%. Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.5%).
Wembdon ranks above 89% 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 Wembdon · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (2.1%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Chinese (0.1%). Elsewhere, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. 56% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a higher share than in 86% of UK towns. The share of residents with no religion is 38%, against 37% across England’s towns.
Wembdon sits below 94% of UK towns for adults who have never married (25%)
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
42 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. As a yardstick, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 9.2%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 56% of UK towns.
31% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
15% of Wembdon’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 31% have one at degree level (34%).
Wembdon and its 7 nearest towns: 1 of them are 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wembdon | 1,772 | — | 51.3 | 28% | 25% |
| Bridgwater | 47,846 | 1.2 mi | 37.5 | 15% | 31% |
| Cannington | 2,315 | 2.1 mi | 48.3 | 26% | 21% |
| North Petherton | 3,180 | 3 mi | 50.5 | 29% | 23% |
| Puriton | 2,265 | 3.2 mi | 47.5 | 26% | 26% |
| Woolavington | 2,324 | 4.4 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Westonzoyland | 1,463 | 4.5 mi | 47.7 | 25% | 25% |
| Nether Stowey | 1,483 | 5.9 mi | 52.6 | 34% | 21% |
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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 Wembdon’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 Wembdon’s residents
What is the population of Wembdon?
The 2021 Census counted 1,772 people in Wembdon’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wembdon?
The median age was 51.3 at the 2021 Census. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wembdon?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wembdon?
38% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Wembdon good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wembdon’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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