Photo: don cload · CC BY-SA 2.0Bishopsgate is older than 95% of UK towns: a median age of 54.1
Households with dependent children make up 18%, against 29% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Bishopsgate was home to 302 people in 132 households. Here, just over three in five adults are married or in a civil partnership. The village has more households in flats than 99% of UK towns, at 42%.
Bishopsgate: 36% of residents are 65 or over, above 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: 12% of residents, 2.5 times the share across England’s towns. In Bishopsgate, 5.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Across England’s towns, 18% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 90% of UK towns: 3.8% of adults are full-time students
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%.
57% of Bishopsgate’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 7.6% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. In Bishopsgate, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 94% of UK towns
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.
Across England’s towns, 30% of households are one person living alone; in Bishopsgate, 32%. Meanwhile, fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in 91% of UK towns: 1.5%.
Only 3.8% of households live in a terraced house in Bishopsgate
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
Here 11% of households have no car or van, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. Few places have as many households in detached houses: 38% here, more than in 72% of UK towns.
More residents born abroad than 98% of UK towns: 34% in Bishopsgate
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 40%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 92% of residents have English as their main language here. Across England’s towns, residents born outside the UK come to 18%. The largest groups were born in EU countries (12%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (8.9%).
Below 96% of UK towns: 27% 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: 66% of Bishopsgate · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian tops 97% of UK towns: 63%. Across England’s towns, residents with no religion come to 37%. In Bishopsgate, nearly two thirds of residents describe themselves as White British.
Bishopsgate ranks below 99% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 21%
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
Where 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Bishopsgate has 7.1%. Across England’s towns, adults who have never married come to 39%. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 8.
Among adults, 54% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 54% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 5.8% hold no qualification (18%).
Bishopsgate is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishopsgate | 302 | — | 54.1 | 36% | 18% |
| Old Windsor and Wraysbury | 7,689 | 1.2 mi | 47.3 | 23% | 28% |
| Egham | 28,003 | 1.4 mi | 31.1 | 13% | 27% |
| Virginia Water | 5,185 | 2.7 mi | 46.6 | 21% | 32% |
| Thorpe | 1,226 | 2.9 mi | 41.1 | 17% | 32% |
| Datchet | 4,807 | 3 mi | 42.6 | 18% | 29% |
| Windsor | 31,569 | 3.5 mi | 41.5 | 17% | 30% |
| Stanwell Moor | 1,431 | 3.5 mi | 40.3 | 16% | 32% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Bishopsgate’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 Bishopsgate’s residents
What is the population of Bishopsgate?
The 2021 Census counted 302 people in Bishopsgate’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bishopsgate?
The median age was 54.1 at the 2021 Census. 5.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 36% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bishopsgate?
66% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 34% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bishopsgate?
27% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7% didn’t answer.
Is Bishopsgate good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bishopsgate’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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