Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Thurlaston is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 56.2
Detached houses are home to 86% of households, against 21% across England’s towns. Thurlaston had 380 residents in 147 households at the 2021 Census. For Thurlaston, the census puts households without a car or van at 2.7%. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 98% of UK towns: 37%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up 8.7% of residents, against 12% across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year: 7.4%, a lower share than 78% of UK towns
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 just over half of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 8.2% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Typically, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Across Thurlaston, 6.4% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Below 90% of UK towns: 24% of households are one person living alone
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.
Little separates the share of shared households of unrelated adults here, 3.4%, from the figure across England’s towns. The benchmark for one-person households across England’s towns: 30%. Average household size: 2.3 people. On households with dependent children, Thurlaston sits lower than just over half of UK towns: 27%.
Thurlaston sits below 97% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (6%)
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 4.7% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Only 5% of Thurlaston’s 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 share of residents whose main language is English tops 68% of UK towns: 98%. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in Africa (1.8%) and in EU countries (1.6%).
Thurlaston ranks above 97% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 62%
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 Thurlaston · Warwickshire’s towns 81% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British tops 82% of UK towns: 95%. On the census count, 32% of residents said they have no religion. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%.
Thurlaston ranks above 77% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 52%
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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 5. Thurlaston has fewer unpaid carers than 94% of UK towns, at 7.3%. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
52% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Thurlaston, 52% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 9.1% have no qualification at all (18%). The highest qualification of 9.7% is A levels, often students still at university.
No nearby town is as old as Thurlaston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurlaston | 380 | — | 56.2 | 37% | 27% |
| Dunchurch | 2,603 | 1.1 mi | 46.7 | 26% | 29% |
| Cawston | 6,475 | 1.6 mi | 34.9 | 9.2% | 49% |
| Onley | 1,667 | 2.9 mi | 37.9 | 9.7% | 26% |
| Long Lawford | 4,369 | 3.1 mi | 35.3 | 13% | 41% |
| Rugby | 78,130 | 3.7 mi | 39.2 | 17% | 30% |
| Stretton-on-Dunsmore | 1,176 | 3.9 mi | 50.6 | 27% | 25% |
| Wolston | 2,693 | 4.3 mi | 44 | 22% | 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 Thurlaston’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 Thurlaston’s residents
What is the population of Thurlaston?
The 2021 Census counted 380 people in Thurlaston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Thurlaston?
The median age was 56.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 37% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Thurlaston?
95% 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 Thurlaston?
32% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Thurlaston good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Thurlaston’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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