Photo: James Emmans · CC BY-SA 2.037% of households live in a flat or apartment, a share 98% of UK towns don’t reach
With a median age of 39.7, Addlestone is younger than just over four fifths of UK towns. Here, 15% of households live in a detached house. Census day 2021: 13,748 residents and 5,976 households here. One-person households make up 33%, against 30% across England’s towns.
What the Census says about Addlestone’s people
A town of flats
37% of households live in a flat or maisonette, more than in 98% of UK towns. 17% have no car or van. Homes & cars ↓
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Addlestone at 11,700 in 2011 and 13,900 in 2024, up 19%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 85% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
A +19% change since 2011: faster than 85% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Addlestone’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 11,700 people in 2011; 13,900 in 2024.
The 30 to 44 group saw the biggest change (+27%), the 65 and over group the smallest (+11%). Mid-2020 to mid-2021 brought the biggest yearly rise, 400 people.
A lower share of residents aged 65 and over than 84% of UK towns, at 17%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 30–34: nearly one in ten residents. Few places have so few residents aged 15 to 24: 9.7% here, fewer than in 53% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Banstead, the oldest of Surrey’s towns by this measure, it is 28%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Addlestone, 39.7. 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.
More full-time students than 59% of UK towns: 5%
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Addlestone has 36% and 22%. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. For Addlestone, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
More shared houses than 94% of UK towns: 4.3% of households
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Surrey’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Nothing unusual on households with dependent children: 29%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Average household size: 2.3 people.
A smaller share of households in terraced houses than 74% of UK towns: 14%
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
The figure for households without a car or van is 17% in Addlestone and 24% across England’s towns.
20% born outside the UK, more than in 92% 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
Born abroad and arrived since 2017: nearly a fifth of that group, against 21% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are scarce here: 91%, fewer than in 91% of UK towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (8.7%) or in the Middle East and Asia (5.2%).
Addlestone ranks below 90% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 74%
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: 74% of Addlestone · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, Addlestone has 36%. Still, the town has more residents who describe themselves as Christian than 62% of UK towns, at 51%. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (11%), Mixed or multiple (3.5%) and Indian (2.8%).
Above 83% of UK towns: 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
Addlestone sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 8.2%, about the same as across England’s towns. Married adults and civil partners are rarer here than in nearly four fifths of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. For 324 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
A degree-level qualification for 32% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
18% of Addlestone’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 32% have one at degree level (34%).
42nd lowest median age among 360 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Aberystwyth is the youngest (25); Sidmouth the oldest (60.4). Nearest to Addlestone in age: Walkden (39.5), Ystrad Mynach (39.5), Dinnington (39.8) and Brackley (39.8).
A younger town than 6 of the 7 around it: Addlestone
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addlestone | 13,748 | — | 39.7 | 17% | 29% |
| Chertsey | 14,558 | 1.3 mi | 39.3 | 16% | 30% |
| Weybridge | 15,918 | 1.8 mi | 43.1 | 18% | 32% |
| New Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater | 33,035 | 1.9 mi | 43.8 | 21% | 32% |
| Byfleet | 14,187 | 2 mi | 42.6 | 18% | 33% |
| Lyne | 1,202 | 2.5 mi | 50.2 | 24% | 22% |
| Shepperton Green | 4,358 | 2.6 mi | 44.4 | 20% | 30% |
| Shepperton | 5,917 | 2.6 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 25% |
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.
- “Surrey’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Surrey (or England), summed the same way as Addlestone’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. Addlestone’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 13,240 people in 2021, against 13,748 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 Addlestone’s residents
What is the population of Addlestone?
The 2021 Census counted 13,748 people in Addlestone’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 13,900 people in mid-2024, 19% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Addlestone?
The median age was 39.7 at the 2021 Census, younger than 82% of UK towns. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 17% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Addlestone?
74% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 20% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Addlestone?
36% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 2.8% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Addlestone good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Addlestone’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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