Photo: Graham Clutton · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 17% of households are one person living alone
21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, against 60% in Dockenfield. Its 181 households held 455 residents at the 2021 Census. Households without a car or van account for 5.6%. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 23%, fewer than in 97% of UK towns.
Older than 83% of UK towns: half of Dockenfield is over 49.5
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 60–64, with just over one in ten residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Locally, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. 22% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 52% of UK towns.
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.
Below 99% of UK towns: 5.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
Full-time students make up 5.9%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Bigger households than 91% of UK towns: 2.5 people each on average
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.
Set against 4.3% across England’s towns, 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Dockenfield. Compared with other places, households with dependent children are common here: 30%, more than in 76% of UK towns.
4.5% of households live in a terraced house, below 98% 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 nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, Dockenfield has 8.4%. Households in terraced houses make up 24% across England’s towns.
Dockenfield: 10% of residents were born outside the UK, above 76% 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
With residents whose main language is English at 98%, Dockenfield is ahead of 69% of UK towns on that count. Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (3.9%), then in EU countries (3.3%).
A higher share of residents with no religion than 57% of UK towns, at 42%
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: 92% of Dockenfield · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here just over half of residents describe themselves as Christian, where the figure across England’s towns is 46%. For residents with no religion, the comparison across England’s towns is 37%. Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (5.7%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Arab (0.2%). Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in 52% of UK towns.
More married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns: 63%
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
On unpaid carers, 8.8% here is much the same as across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 1 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week.
A degree-level qualification for 53% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 53% of Dockenfield’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 8.2% have no qualification (18%).
Dockenfield is younger than 2 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dockenfield | 455 | — | 49.5 | 22% | 30% |
| Wrecclesham | 7,312 | 2.5 mi | 45.3 | 22% | 33% |
| Lindford | 2,740 | 2.9 mi | 44.4 | 20% | 27% |
| Headley Down and Headley | 4,935 | 2.9 mi | 52.3 | 28% | 23% |
| Bentley | 1,406 | 3.3 mi | 47 | 25% | 34% |
| Bordon | 9,349 | 3.5 mi | 35.3 | 11% | 35% |
| Farnham | 20,499 | 3.7 mi | 42.8 | 20% | 31% |
| Hindhead | 6,444 | 4.2 mi | 49.7 | 27% | 25% |
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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.
- “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 Dockenfield’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 Dockenfield’s residents
What is the population of Dockenfield?
The 2021 Census counted 455 people in Dockenfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dockenfield?
The median age was 49.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dockenfield?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 10% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dockenfield?
42% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Dockenfield good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dockenfield’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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