Photo: David Stowell · CC BY-SA 2.00.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 99% of UK towns
7.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24 (England’s towns: 12%). In Bearley, 10% of households have no car or van. Higher than in 88% of UK towns: 57% of residents describe themselves as Christian. At the 2021 Census Bearley was home to 687 people in 298 households.
Half of Bearley is over 50.8, older than 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. The census found that 30% of residents are 65 or over in Bearley.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 87 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.
Below 99% of UK towns: 2.6% of adults are full-time students
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%.
By class, 43% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 19% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). At 9%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is higher than in 56% of UK towns. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bearley ranks below 77% of UK towns on one-person households: 27%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Warwickshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
In Bearley the average household is 2.2 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. Add to that, on households with dependent children, Bearley sits lower than 55% of UK towns: 27%. Set beside that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Above 72% of UK towns: 38% of households live in a detached house
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 14% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. Across Bearley, 19% of households live in a terraced house. The usual figure: just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Below 65% of UK towns: 5% of residents were born outside the UK
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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.9%) and in Africa (1.2%). 98% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 53% of UK towns. The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%.
Fewer residents with no religion than 86% of UK towns: 34%
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: 94% of Bearley · Warwickshire’s towns 81% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
94% of residents describe themselves as White British (England’s towns: 73%). As a reference point, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (2.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Bangladeshi (0.3%).
Bearley ranks above 86% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 54%
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
20 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 83% of UK towns. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 9.6%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Bearley, 38% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 15% have no qualification at all (18%).
Older than Bearley: 3 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bearley | 687 | — | 50.8 | 30% | 27% |
| Snitterfield | 1,055 | 2.1 mi | 50.2 | 28% | 29% |
| Claverdon | 1,310 | 2.7 mi | 51.6 | 28% | 30% |
| Henley-in-Arden | 3,001 | 3.6 mi | 52.5 | 30% | 20% |
| Stratford-upon-Avon | 28,112 | 3.7 mi | 46.9 | 24% | 23% |
| Tiddington | 1,687 | 4.1 mi | 50.3 | 29% | 23% |
| Hampton Magna | 1,636 | 5.5 mi | 52.3 | 33% | 22% |
| Barford | 1,428 | 5.5 mi | 39.5 | 17% | 35% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Warwickshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Warwickshire (or England), summed the same way as Bearley’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 Bearley’s residents
What is the population of Bearley?
The 2021 Census counted 687 people in Bearley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bearley?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bearley?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 81% across Warwickshire’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bearley?
34% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 7.9% didn’t answer.
Is Bearley good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bearley’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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