Photo: My another account · Public domainA median age of 52.6: Bratton is older than 93% of UK towns
Households with dependent children: 23% here and 29% across England’s towns. Few places have as many households in detached houses: 58% here, more than in 95% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 1,172 residents in Bratton, living in 515 households. Here, 6.2% of households live in a flat or apartment.
What the Census says about Bratton’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Bratton’s residents are under 52.6 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
128 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 11% of those 5 and over: more than in 90% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over make up 29% in Bratton, more than in 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 9% in Bratton. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 75% of UK towns: 7.6%
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, just over two in five adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Bratton has fewer full-time students than just over three fifths of UK towns, at 4.6%. Measured more widely, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
In Bratton, 27% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 71% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Wiltshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households average 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of one-person households is 30%. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 2.1%.
Households without a car or van make up 8.5% in Bratton, less than in 89% 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
Households in terraced houses: 15% here and 24% across England’s towns. One household in 12 has no car or van.
Bratton sits above 79% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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
Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK; in Bratton, 5.8%. The wider picture: nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in Africa (1.4%).
Bratton ranks above 73% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as White British: 95%
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 Bratton · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (3.2%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Pakistani (0.3%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 51% here and 46% across England’s towns.
58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 95% 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
34 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Lower than in 91% of UK towns: 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers: 11% here and 8.7% across England’s towns.
Among adults, 42% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 42% of adults in Bratton, 34% across England’s towns; 12% have no qualification, against 18%.
Bratton is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bratton | 1,172 | — | 52.6 | 29% | 23% |
| Westbury | 16,394 | 2.8 mi | 40.9 | 19% | 29% |
| North Bradley | 1,555 | 3.9 mi | 51.5 | 31% | 24% |
| Dilton Marsh | 1,958 | 4.3 mi | 50.4 | 26% | 23% |
| Trowbridge | 43,753 | 4.9 mi | 41.4 | 18% | 29% |
| Southwick | 1,856 | 4.9 mi | 46.9 | 26% | 28% |
| Warminster | 18,018 | 5.3 mi | 46 | 24% | 24% |
| Littleton Panell | 1,334 | 5.7 mi | 44.9 | 25% | 22% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Wiltshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Wiltshire (or England), summed the same way as Bratton’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 Bratton’s residents
What is the population of Bratton?
The 2021 Census counted 1,172 people in Bratton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bratton?
The median age was 52.6 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bratton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 5.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bratton?
40% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 7% didn’t answer.
Is Bratton good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bratton’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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