Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Frensham is over 50, older than 84% of UK towns
Adults who have never married make up 23%, against 39% across England’s towns. Higher than in 93% of UK towns: 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian. At the 2021 Census Frensham was home to 853 people in 362 households. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 9.8% locally.
Below 71% of UK towns: 9.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. The census found that 23% of residents are 65 or over in Frensham.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
5.3% of adults are full-time students, more than in 68% 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%.
In Frensham, 52% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 12% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. One in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 69% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Fewer one-person households than 84% of UK towns: 25%
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across England’s towns: 3.9%. 26% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 65% of UK towns. Set beside that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The average household has 2.4 people.
Fewer car-free households than 88% of UK towns: 8.9%
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
Across England’s towns, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house; in Frensham, 43%. Just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 50% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 13% in Frensham, more than in 83% 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
A tenth of the town’s residents born abroad came in 2017 or later, set against 21% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, residents born outside the UK come to 18%. On the census count, 97% of residents have English as their main language.
Residents with no religion make up 33% in Frensham, less than in 88% of UK towns
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: 89% of Frensham · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 73% across England’s towns, 89% of residents describe themselves as White British here. Across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (7.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and Chinese (0.7%).
57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 94% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Unpaid carers make up 8.3%, close to the figure across England’s towns. To put it in context, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
54% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 54% of Frensham’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 10% have no qualification (18%).
2 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Frensham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frensham | 853 | — | 50 | 23% | 26% |
| Wrecclesham | 7,312 | 1.6 mi | 45.3 | 22% | 33% |
| Farnham | 20,499 | 2.3 mi | 42.8 | 20% | 31% |
| Bentley | 1,406 | 3.7 mi | 47 | 25% | 34% |
| Headley Down and Headley | 4,935 | 3.9 mi | 52.3 | 28% | 23% |
| Elstead | 2,261 | 4.1 mi | 51.5 | 29% | 25% |
| Weybourne | 11,241 | 4.1 mi | 44.8 | 22% | 29% |
| 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 Frensham’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 Frensham’s residents
What is the population of Frensham?
The 2021 Census counted 853 people in Frensham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Frensham?
The median age was 50 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Frensham?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 13% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Frensham?
33% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Frensham good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Frensham’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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