Photo: John P Reeves · CC BY-SA 2.0Households with dependent children make up 33% in Wrecclesham, more than in 90% of UK towns
Where 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, Wrecclesham has 24%. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 57% here, more than in 93% of UK towns. 7,312 residents in 2,889 households: that is Wrecclesham at the 2021 Census. Households in detached houses: nearly half of the total.
Growth of +14% since 2011 puts Wrecclesham ahead of 73% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Wrecclesham’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 6,200 people in 2011; 7,100 in 2024.
Between mid-2020 and mid-2021 the population rose by 260, its biggest one-year gain. Growth was strongest among the 65 and over (+26%) and weakest among the 30 to 44 (−3%).
Half of Wrecclesham is over 45.3, older than 56% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 tops 58% of UK towns: 10%. On residents aged 65 and over, Wrecclesham sits higher than 52% of UK towns: 22%. More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: 8.4% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Wrecclesham, 45.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Wrecclesham ranks above 91% of UK towns on full-time students: 6.9%
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 nearly half of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 12% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Residents who moved in within the year are more common here than in just over four fifths of UK towns. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Larger households than 92% of UK towns: 2.5 people 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.
The census found that 2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Wrecclesham.
Households without a car or van make up 7.9% in Wrecclesham, less than in 92% 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
Flats are home to 8.1% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. In one household in 13 there is no car or van. Wrecclesham has fewer households in terraced houses than 71% of UK towns, at 15%.
A higher share of residents born outside the UK than 76% of UK towns, at 11%
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
Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 98% of residents have English as their main language here. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.3%). Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Fewer residents who describe themselves as White British than 67% of UK towns: 89%
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 Wrecclesham · Surrey’s towns 76% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns, against 51% in Wrecclesham. Across the comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (5.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.9%) and Chinese (0.6%). This Surrey town has fewer residents with no religion than 57% of UK towns, at 40%.
In Wrecclesham, 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 86% 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
Nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care, about the same as across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 146. The wider picture: 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 50% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 50% of Wrecclesham’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 9.4% have no qualification (18%). For 15%, A levels are the highest qualification so far, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Ranked by age, 264th oldest of 538 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 30.9 in Red Lodge to 65.3 in Barton on Sea. Nearest to Wrecclesham in age: New Mills (45.3), Countesthorpe (45.3), Dalton-in-Furness (45.4) and Menston (45.4).
Nearby, 3 of 7 towns have older populations than Wrecclesham
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Wrecclesham’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. Wrecclesham’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 6,747 people in 2021, against 7,312 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 Wrecclesham’s residents
What is the population of Wrecclesham?
The 2021 Census counted 7,312 people in Wrecclesham’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 7,100 people in mid-2024, 14% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Wrecclesham?
The median age was 45.3 at the 2021 Census, older than 56% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wrecclesham?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 76% across Surrey’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wrecclesham?
40% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Wrecclesham good for families?
33% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wrecclesham’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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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