Photo: Ian Rob · CC BY-SA 2.0Fenny Compton ranks below 99% of UK towns on shared households of unrelated adults: 1.1%
Here 55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 44%. Census day 2021: 850 residents and 357 households in Fenny Compton. Households in terraced houses account for 4%. On households without a car or van, Fenny Compton sits lower than 96% of UK towns: 6.5%.
Older than 75% of UK towns: half of Fenny Compton is over 48.2
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
50–54 is the most common age band: 12% of residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Fenny Compton has more residents aged 15 to 24 than 66% of UK towns, at 10%. Here, nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fenny Compton ranks below 89% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 6.8%
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, 46% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 15% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Full-time students account for 5.5%. Measured more widely, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
One-person households make up 24% in Fenny Compton, less than in 89% of UK towns
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.
A household here has 2.4 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Elsewhere, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. For Fenny Compton, the census puts households with dependent children at 27%.
Fenny Compton: 46% of households live in a detached house, above 86% 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 6.3% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 21% of households live in a detached house.
Residents whose main language is English: 100%, a higher share than 99% 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.4%) and in Africa (1.3%). Lower than in 64% of UK towns: 5.1% of residents were born outside the UK. Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison.
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 81% 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: 95% of Fenny Compton · Warwickshire’s towns 81% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 46% across England’s towns, 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian here. As a reference point, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The groups that follow White British are Other White (2.1%), Mixed or multiple (1.2%) and Indian (0.5%).
Adults who have never married: 29%, a lower share than 77% 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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 17 people. At 9.9%, the share of unpaid carers is higher than in 65% of UK towns. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
42% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Fenny Compton counts 42% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 11% have no qualification (18%).
2 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Fenny Compton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenny Compton | 850 | — | 48.2 | 19% | 27% |
| Bishop's Itchington | 2,530 | 3.6 mi | 42.6 | 19% | 30% |
| Kineton | 2,235 | 5.2 mi | 47.5 | 23% | 27% |
| Harbury | 2,751 | 5.3 mi | 48.4 | 28% | 26% |
| Southam | 8,103 | 5.7 mi | 42 | 20% | 27% |
| Napton on the Hill | 1,063 | 6 mi | 46.6 | 22% | 28% |
| Byfield | 1,303 | 6.1 mi | 50.3 | 26% | 24% |
| Stockton | 1,504 | 7.1 mi | 43.9 | 18% | 28% |
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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.
- “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 Fenny Compton’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 Fenny Compton’s residents
What is the population of Fenny Compton?
The 2021 Census counted 850 people in Fenny Compton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fenny Compton?
The median age was 48.2 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fenny Compton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 81% across Warwickshire’s towns. 5.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fenny Compton?
40% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Fenny Compton good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fenny Compton’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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