Photo: Finlay McWalter · CC BY-SA 3.0A higher share of unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns, at 15%
Where 39% of residents describe themselves as Christian across Scotland’s towns, Bannockburn has 44%. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are common here: 31%, more than in 84% of UK towns. This Stirling town had 6,587 residents and 2,922 households at the 2022 Census, with a median age of 43.9 (younger than 55% of UK towns). Across Bannockburn, just over a fifth of households have no car or van.
What the Census says about Bannockburn’s people
Many carers
946 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 15% of those 5 and over: more than in 99% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: Scotland’s Census 2022 (output areas summed to the 2022 locality).
Bannockburn sits above 84% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (11%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2022.
Half of Bannockburn’s residents are under 43.9, younger than in 55% of UK towns. The census found that nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over here. The wider picture: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Scotland’s towns. In Bridge of Allan, the oldest of Stirling’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Bannockburn, 43.9. 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 Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students make up 6.1% in Bannockburn, more than in 86% of UK towns
What adults did at the 2022 Census (the NS-SEC classes).
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
In Bannockburn, 29% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 29% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 25% across Scotland’s towns. The share of full-time students across Scotland’s towns is 9.4%.
The Census was taken on 20 March 2022, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bannockburn sits above 72% of UK towns for one-person households (33%)
Household make-up at the 2022 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Stirling’s towns and Scotland’s towns
People per household
Scotland’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.3 people, against 2.1 across Scotland’s towns. To put it in context, 38% of households are one person living alone across Scotland’s towns. Census figures put households with dependent children at 24% in Bannockburn. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are common here: 3%, more than in just over three quarters of UK towns.
A higher share of households in flats than 74% of UK towns, at 16%
Accommodation type and cars or vans per household, Census 2022. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
23% of households live in a detached house, against 18% across Scotland’s towns. Households in flats: 39% across Scotland’s towns, for comparison.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 62% of UK towns, at 5.2%
Country of birth, year of arrival and main language, Census 2022.
Born outside the UK, by region · share of all residents; the bar runs to 15%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Born abroad and arrived since 2017: 29% of that group, against 34% across Scotland’s towns. Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are scarce here: 97%, fewer than in three fifths of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 11% across Scotland’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.1%), then in the Middle East and Asia (2%).
48% said they have no religion, more than in 88% of UK towns
How residents described themselves at the 2022 Census. Lines join the lowest and highest of the three figures.
Ethnic groups other than White British · all residents
White British, not charted: 93% of Bannockburn · Stirling’s towns 88% · Scotland’s towns 86%.
Religion · all residents
Muslims make up 1.7% of residents. On residents who describe themselves as White British, Bannockburn sits higher than 53% of UK towns: 93%. Set beside that, just over half of residents said they have no religion across Scotland’s towns.
Adults who have never married make up 37% in Bannockburn, more than in 78% of UK towns
Legal partnership status (residents 16 and over) and unpaid care (residents 3 and over), Census 2022.
Partnership status · residents 16 and over
Unpaid care given · share of residents 3 and over
Married adults and civil partners make up 44%, against 42% across Scotland’s towns. Across Scotland’s towns, adults who have never married come to 40%. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 239 residents.
Among adults, 25% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2022.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 25% of adults in Bannockburn (Scotland’s towns: 32%), and no qualification by 19% (Scotland’s towns: 17%). Highers are the highest qualification of 11%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Ranked by age, 179th youngest of 474 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2022. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 30.9 in Red Lodge to 65.3 in Barton on Sea. Nearest to Bannockburn in age: Iver Heath (43.9), Launceston (43.9), Barnton (44) and Atherstone (44).
A younger town than 3 of the 7 around it: Bannockburn
Nearby towns coloured by median age, Census 2022. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in term time. 20 March 2022 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.
- “Stirling’s towns” and “Scotland’s towns” mean their towns. Census comparisons pool every locality in Stirling (or Scotland), summed the same way as Bannockburn’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- Small counts are blurred. National Records of Scotland adjusts small 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 Bannockburn’s residents
What is the population of Bannockburn?
The 2022 Census counted 6,587 people in Bannockburn’s locality.
What is the average age in Bannockburn?
The median age was 43.9 at the 2022 Census, younger than 55% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bannockburn?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2022, against 86% across Scotland’s towns and 88% across Stirling’s towns. 5.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bannockburn?
48% said they had no religion and 44% that they were Christian at the 2022 Census; 1.7% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Bannockburn good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2022, against 24% across Scotland’s towns. Schools are on Bannockburn’s schools page.
Sources: Scotland’s Census 2022 (National Records of Scotland), output areas summed to the NRS 2022 locality (UV101b, UV103, UV104, UV113, UV201, UV204b, UV205, UV212, UV301, UV402, UV405, UV406, UV501, UV607, UV801). Open Government Licence v3.0.
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