Photo: Tonyporter0 · CC0Priors Hardwick sits above 97% of UK towns for households in detached houses (62%)
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, 7.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24 here. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 70% of the total. Priors Hardwick has fewer adults who have never married than 98% of UK towns, at 22%. At the 2021 Census, 185 people lived here, in 80 households.
Priors Hardwick is older than 88% of UK towns: a median age of 50.6
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: nearly one in ten residents. Few places have as many residents aged 65 and over: 30% here, more than in 91% of UK towns. In Bulkington, the oldest of Warwickshire’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 81 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.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 99% of UK towns: 3.8%
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%.
4.6% of adults are full-time students, against 7.9% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
A higher share of one-person households than 80% of UK towns, at 34%
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.
Households in Priors Hardwick hold 2.2 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). On average, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Across Priors Hardwick, 25% of households have dependent children.
Priors Hardwick sits below 97% of UK towns for households without a car or van (6.1%)
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
3.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Households without a car or van: 24% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Priors Hardwick ranks above 82% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 13%
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
98% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (3.3%).
27% said they have no religion, fewer than in 96% 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: 89% of Priors Hardwick · Warwickshire’s towns 81% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Nearly nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, residents with no religion come to 37%.
Above 98% of UK towns: 60% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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 carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 0. By way of comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Compared with other places, unpaid carers are scarce here: 6.9%, fewer than in 97% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Priors Hardwick counts 38% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 18% have no qualification (18%).
No nearby town is as old as Priors Hardwick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priors Hardwick | 185 | — | 50.6 | 30% | 25% |
| Napton on the Hill | 1,063 | 3.1 mi | 46.6 | 22% | 28% |
| Byfield | 1,303 | 3.3 mi | 50.3 | 26% | 24% |
| Woodford Halse | 4,288 | 4.7 mi | 40.2 | 15% | 30% |
| Southam | 8,103 | 4.8 mi | 42 | 20% | 27% |
| Bishop's Itchington | 2,530 | 5.1 mi | 42.6 | 19% | 30% |
| Stockton | 1,504 | 5.2 mi | 43.9 | 18% | 28% |
| Long Itchington | 2,500 | 6.3 mi | 42.8 | 20% | 31% |
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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 Priors Hardwick’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 Priors Hardwick’s residents
What is the population of Priors Hardwick?
The 2021 Census counted 185 people in Priors Hardwick’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Priors Hardwick?
The median age was 50.6 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Priors Hardwick?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 81% across Warwickshire’s towns. 13% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Priors Hardwick?
27% said they had no religion and 70% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 2.7% didn’t answer.
Is Priors Hardwick good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Priors Hardwick’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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