Photo: Brian Robert Marshall · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 88% of UK towns: half of Chirton is over 50.7
Where just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, Chirton has 57%. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 60%, more than in 98% of UK towns. The village had 414 residents in 172 households at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of households have no car or van.
Chirton ranks below 95% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 7.8%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. In Chirton, 21% 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.
Below 95% of UK towns: 3.5% of adults are full-time students
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 40% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 20% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). 8.5% of residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 22% of households in Chirton are one person living alone
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.
Here 26% of households have dependent children, where the figure across England’s towns is 29%. The benchmark for one-person households across England’s towns: 30%. Each household has 2.4 people on average. On shared households of unrelated adults, Chirton sits higher than 92% of UK towns: 4.1%.
14% of households live in a terraced house, below 75% 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 flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. For households in terraced houses, the comparison across England’s towns is 24%.
100% of residents have English as their main language, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Nearly one in ten residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (4.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.5%).
Chirton: 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 87% 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 Chirton · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 36% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. Typically, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian account for 57%.
26% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 91% 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 6 people. Against that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 7.6%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 91% of UK towns.
Qualified to degree level: 43% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
11% of Chirton’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 43% have one at degree level (34%).
Chirton and its 7 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chirton | 414 | — | 50.7 | 21% | 26% |
| Market Lavington | 1,810 | 4.1 mi | 50.1 | 22% | 25% |
| Devizes | 19,491 | 4.8 mi | 46.1 | 23% | 25% |
| Potterne | 1,543 | 4.8 mi | 52.5 | 28% | 21% |
| Littleton Panell | 1,334 | 5 mi | 44.9 | 25% | 22% |
| Pewsey | 3,792 | 5.6 mi | 51.8 | 28% | 20% |
| Netheravon | 1,068 | 6.9 mi | 50.3 | 22% | 22% |
| Bromham | 1,066 | 8.5 mi | 54.1 | 29% | 18% |
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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 Chirton’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 Chirton’s residents
What is the population of Chirton?
The 2021 Census counted 414 people in Chirton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Chirton?
The median age was 50.7 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Chirton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 8.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Chirton?
36% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Chirton good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Chirton’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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