Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0Winford ranks above 94% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 55%
Households in flats make up 3.1%, against 23% across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.4% of the total. Nearly a third of households have dependent children, more than in 84% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 377 people lived in Winford, in 159 households.
Winford: 23% of residents are 65 or over, above 57% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 10–14 than any other five-year age: 7.6% of residents. Half of Winford’s residents are over 44.7, older than in just over half of UK towns. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In South Petherton, the oldest of Somerset’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 82 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 Winford, 4.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 99% 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%.
40% of Winford’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Here, 5.7% 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.
Winford 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 2.5%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. One-person households account for 30%.
Fewer car-free households than 93% of UK towns: 7.6%
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
Households in terraced houses: 10%, below 89% of UK towns. The benchmark for households without a car or van across England’s towns: 24%.
In Winford, 4% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 78% 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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.4%) or in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%). At 99%, the share of residents whose main language is English is higher than in three quarters of UK towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 91% of UK towns: 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 Winford · Somerset’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion is 46%, against 37% across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian are rarer here than in 73% of UK towns.
In Winford, 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 68% 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
Against a figure of 44% across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners in Winford comes in at 49%. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 13.
41% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 41% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 13% hold no qualification (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 4 are older than Winford
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winford | 377 | — | 44.7 | 23% | 32% |
| Chew Magna | 1,249 | 2.3 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 25% |
| Long Ashton | 5,184 | 3.3 mi | 42.6 | 19% | 37% |
| Backwell | 4,347 | 4.2 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 34% |
| Bishop Sutton | 1,424 | 4.2 mi | 44.1 | 19% | 37% |
| Blagdon | 1,056 | 4.6 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 27% |
| Wrington | 1,997 | 4.7 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 26% |
| Whitchurch | 1,992 | 4.8 mi | 39.1 | 18% | 32% |
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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 Winford’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 Winford’s residents
What is the population of Winford?
The 2021 Census counted 377 people in Winford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Winford?
The median age was 44.7 at the 2021 Census. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Winford?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Somerset’s towns. 4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Winford?
46% said they had no religion and 46% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Winford good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Winford’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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