Photo: SuzanneKn at en.wikipedia · Public domainPirbright is younger than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 24.7
Flats are home to 3.7% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census counted 3,920 residents in 855 households. Residents who describe themselves as White British: just over four fifths of the total. Few places have so few households without a car or van: 5.9% here, fewer than in 97% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Pirbright’s people
A town of families
47% of Pirbright’s 855 households had dependent children in 2021, more than in 99% of UK towns and the highest share in Surrey. 16% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Pirbright’s residents are under 24.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 34% are 15 to 24 and 6% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
A town people move to
48% of residents gave a different address a year before the 2021 Census, 4.6 times the share across England’s towns. Students & newcomers ↓
More with no religion than most
48% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 42% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over: 6%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Pirbright has 34%. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Pirbright, 24.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
35% women, 65% men
About 54 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Pirbright is a garrison town: service personnel living in barracks count as residents.
Pirbright ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 48%
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%.
32% of Pirbright’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 15% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. In Pirbright, 4.1% of adults are full-time students.
Pirbright: 47% of households have dependent children, above 99% 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.
In Pirbright the average household is 2.8 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 15%, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. 2.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Households in terraced houses make up 27% in Pirbright, more than in 77% 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
Across England’s towns, 21% of households live in a detached house; in Pirbright, 28%. Typically, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
In Pirbright, 15% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 86% 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
Residents whose main language is English: 94%, below just over four fifths of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (4.3%) and in Africa (4.2%).
48% of residents said they have no religion, a share 89% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 81% of Pirbright · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (5.6%), African (3.1%) and Mixed or multiple (2.6%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are scarce here: 42%, fewer than in 89% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Unpaid carers: 4.5%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
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
For 48 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Measured more widely, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. 34% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, fewer than in 98% of UK towns. With adults who have never married at 59%, Pirbright is ahead of 99% of UK towns on that count.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 30%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Pirbright, 30% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 6.9% have no qualification at all (18%).
530 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people: this is the 3rd youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Milford on Sea the oldest (64.6). Nearest to Pirbright in age: Bailrigg (18.9), Little Eriswell (23.9), Lyneham (25.6) and Bulford (28.4).
No nearby town is as young as Pirbright
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pirbright | 3,920 | — | 24.7 | 6% | 47% |
| Brookwood | 1,428 | 0.9 mi | 40.2 | 16% | 36% |
| Bisley | 4,045 | 1.7 mi | 41.6 | 17% | 33% |
| Deepcut | 2,163 | 2 mi | 34.4 | 8.3% | 40% |
| West End and Chobham | 8,877 | 2.8 mi | 41.5 | 18% | 37% |
| Lightwater | 6,539 | 3 mi | 49.3 | 25% | 26% |
| Frimley | 15,101 | 3.2 mi | 43.9 | 20% | 32% |
| Fairlands | 1,119 | 3.4 mi | 53.6 | 33% | 22% |
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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 Pirbright’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 Pirbright’s residents
What is the population of Pirbright?
The 2021 Census counted 3,920 people in Pirbright’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pirbright?
The median age was 24.7 at the 2021 Census, younger than 99% of UK towns. 34% of residents were 15 to 24 and 6% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pirbright?
81% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 15% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pirbright?
48% said they had no religion and 42% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.7% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Pirbright good for families?
47% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Pirbright’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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