Photo: SuzanneKn at en.wikipedia · Public domainFewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of UK towns: 7.3%
Households without a car or van: 5.9%, below 97% of UK towns. Puttenham is home to 287 residents in 119 households, by the 2021 Census. In Puttenham, 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 96% of UK towns.
A lower share of residents aged 65 and over than 55% of UK towns, at 21%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Puttenham’s residents are under 44, younger than in 54% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 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%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 81 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. A large institution, such as a prison, barracks, boarding school, university or care home, can tilt a town’s split: the census counts the people living there as residents.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 9% in Puttenham, more than in 55% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Puttenham has 43% and 18%. Against that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. For Puttenham, the census puts full-time students at 4.8%.
Puttenham households average 2.4 people, larger than in 81% 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.
On shared households of unrelated adults, 4.2% here is much the same as across England’s towns. Here, 31% of households have dependent children. Puttenham has fewer one-person households than 54% of UK towns, at 29%.
Puttenham ranks below 74% of UK towns on households in flats: 6.7%
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
Households in detached houses: 34%, above 62% of UK towns. The benchmark for households in flats across England’s towns: 23%. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 24%.
Puttenham: 98% of residents have English as their main language, above 51% 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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.8%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%). As a yardstick, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents born outside the UK are scarce here: 6.3%, fewer than in 51% of UK towns.
Only 91% of residents describe themselves as White British in Puttenham
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: 91% of Puttenham · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (5.9%), Mixed or multiple (2.5%) and Indian (0.7%). 36% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 80% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Adults who have never married: 27%, a lower share than 83% 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
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 8.8%, close to the figure across England’s towns. The share of adults who have never married across England’s towns is 39%. 11 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
43% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Puttenham’s adults: 43% with a degree-level qualification and 13% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
3 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Puttenham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puttenham | 287 | — | 44 | 21% | 31% |
| Normandy | 1,665 | 1.8 mi | 51.2 | 30% | 25% |
| Wood Street Village | 1,586 | 2.7 mi | 41.8 | 19% | 34% |
| Elstead | 2,261 | 2.9 mi | 51.5 | 29% | 25% |
| Farncombe | 13,247 | 3.2 mi | 41.3 | 19% | 29% |
| Ash and Ash Vale | 24,284 | 3.4 mi | 42.9 | 19% | 28% |
| Fairlands | 1,119 | 3.6 mi | 53.6 | 33% | 22% |
| Godalming | 10,450 | 3.8 mi | 41.5 | 17% | 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 Puttenham’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 Puttenham’s residents
What is the population of Puttenham?
The 2021 Census counted 287 people in Puttenham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Puttenham?
The median age was 44 at the 2021 Census. 7.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Puttenham?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 6.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Puttenham?
36% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.5% didn’t answer.
Is Puttenham good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Puttenham’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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