Photo: Ian Rob · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 56.6: Lower Brailes is older than 98% of UK towns
The share of households in flats is 2.1%, against 23% across England’s towns. 820 residents in 389 households: that is Lower Brailes at the 2021 Census. In Lower Brailes, 64% of residents describe themselves as Christian. Higher than in 95% of UK towns: 58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.7% in Lower Brailes, less than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents aged 65 and over: 32% here, more than in 93% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Lower Brailes ranks below 96% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.3%
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%.
Just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, against 16% in Lower Brailes. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
In Lower Brailes, 18% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 97% 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.
Against a figure of 4.3% across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Lower Brailes comes in at 3.1%. Across England’s towns, households with dependent children come to 29%. There are 2.1 people in the average household. One-person households are more common here than in 69% of UK towns.
Below 94% of UK towns: 7.5% of households have no car or van
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
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 46% of households live in a detached house in Lower Brailes. The benchmark for households without a car or van across England’s towns: 24%. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 20% here.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Lower Brailes, more than in 97% 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
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, 4.4% of residents were born outside the UK here. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.4%) or in Africa (1.1%). By way of comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
29% said they have no religion, fewer than in 95% 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: 96% of Lower Brailes · Warwickshire’s towns 81% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%. Set beside that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (3.4%), Indian (0.1%) and Mixed or multiple (0.1%).
A lower share of adults who have never married than 97% of UK towns, at 23%
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
By its share of unpaid carers (11%), Lower Brailes is above 89% of UK towns. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 22. The comparison figure for adults who have never married is 39% across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 38%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 38% of adults in Lower Brailes (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 15% (England’s towns: 18%).
The towns around Lower Brailes are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Brailes | 820 | — | 56.6 | 32% | 18% |
| Shipston-on-Stour | 5,852 | 3.6 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 23% |
| Hook Norton | 2,188 | 4.5 mi | 48.4 | 24% | 28% |
| Ettington | 1,064 | 6.5 mi | 47.7 | 22% | 29% |
| Moreton-in-Marsh | 5,015 | 7.5 mi | 46.1 | 25% | 23% |
| Bloxham | 3,681 | 7.6 mi | 41.1 | 19% | 34% |
| Chipping Norton | 6,991 | 7.7 mi | 45.5 | 24% | 25% |
| Kineton | 2,235 | 7.7 mi | 47.5 | 23% | 27% |
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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 Lower Brailes’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 Lower Brailes’s residents
What is the population of Lower Brailes?
The 2021 Census counted 820 people in Lower Brailes’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lower Brailes?
The median age was 56.6 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lower Brailes?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 81% across Warwickshire’s towns. 4.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lower Brailes?
29% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is Lower Brailes good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lower Brailes’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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