Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0A larger share of households with dependent children than 86% of UK towns: 32%
44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns, against 54% in Tadworth and Epsom Downs. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 24%, fewer than in 89% of UK towns. Its 10,665 households held 27,095 residents at the 2021 Census. Across Tadworth and Epsom Downs, nearly one in ten households have no car or van.
Faster growth than 64% of UK towns: Tadworth and Epsom Downs changed by +11% since 2011
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Tadworth and Epsom Downs’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 25,000 people in 2011; 27,800 in 2024.
The 65 and over age group changed most (+31%) and the 45 to 64 least (+2%). Mid-2020 to mid-2021 brought the biggest yearly rise, 420 people.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 53% of UK towns: 21%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 7.5% of residents. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. With a median age of 44.2, Tadworth and Epsom Downs is younger than 52% of UK towns. In Banstead, the oldest of Surrey’s towns by this measure, it is 28%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Tadworth and Epsom Downs, 44.2. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
5.1% of adults are full-time students, a share 63% of UK towns don’t reach
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 43% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 15% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Residents who moved in within the year account for 8.5%. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.5 people per household, more than in 91% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Tadworth and Epsom Downs comes in at 3.2%.
Above 78% of UK towns: 18% of households live in a flat or apartment
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 terraced houses make up 16%, against 24% across England’s towns. 38% of households live in a detached house, a higher share than in 72% of UK towns. The benchmark for households in flats across England’s towns: 23%.
More residents born abroad than 83% of UK towns: 13% in Tadworth and Epsom Downs
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
The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (4.7%) and in EU countries (4.1%). For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%. Lower than in nearly three quarters of UK towns: 96% of residents have English as their main language. Born abroad and arrived since 2017: nearly a tenth of that group, against 21% across England’s towns.
81% of residents describe themselves as White British, fewer than in 85% 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: 81% of Tadworth and Epsom Downs · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
2.7% of residents are Muslim. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 73% across England’s towns. At 36%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 78% of UK towns. Where 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns, Tadworth and Epsom Downs has 52%.
Tadworth and Epsom Downs ranks below 72% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 29%
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. Elsewhere, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 597 residents.
38% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 38% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 13% hold no qualification (18%).
From a median age of 36 in Tattenham South to 50 in Tadworth & Walton
The town’s 5 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Tadworth & Walton is the oldest area, with 27% aged 65 or over; Tattenham South the youngest (median age 36). Families with children are most common in Tattenham South (39% of households).
Of 256 UK towns its size (19,000 to 37,000 people), the 88th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Egham is the youngest (31.1); Rustington the oldest (56.2). Nearest to Tadworth and Epsom Downs in age: Billingham (44.2), Westhoughton (44.2), Whitehaven (44.3) and Berkhamsted (44.3).
Tadworth and Epsom Downs and its 7 nearest towns: 6 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tadworth and Epsom Downs | 27,095 | — | 44.2 | 21% | 32% |
| Kingswood | 3,757 | 1.4 mi | 50.1 | 25% | 28% |
| Langley Vale | 1,515 | 1.4 mi | 46.2 | 18% | 32% |
| Banstead | 8,929 | 1.7 mi | 49.1 | 28% | 28% |
| Epsom | 35,857 | 2.6 mi | 39.6 | 15% | 35% |
| Chipstead and Woodmansterne | 4,523 | 2.7 mi | 44.9 | 18% | 34% |
| Lower Kingswood | 2,029 | 2.8 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 29% |
| Ashtead | 14,830 | 3.2 mi | 47 | 24% | 32% |
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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 Tadworth and Epsom Downs’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Tadworth and Epsom Downs’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 27,004 people in 2021, against 27,095 in the built-up area.
- 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 Tadworth and Epsom Downs’s residents
What is the population of Tadworth and Epsom Downs?
The 2021 Census counted 27,095 people in Tadworth and Epsom Downs’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 27,800 people in mid-2024, 11% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Tadworth and Epsom Downs?
The median age was 44.2 at the 2021 Census, younger than 52% of UK towns. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tadworth and Epsom Downs?
81% 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 Tadworth and Epsom Downs?
36% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 2.7% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Tadworth and Epsom Downs good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Tattenham South (39% of households). Schools are on Tadworth and Epsom Downs’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024 · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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