Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 50.1: Cricklade is older than 85% of UK towns
Where 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, Cricklade has 24%. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 92% of UK towns. The town counted 4,030 residents and 1,787 households at the 2021 Census. 41% of households live in a detached house.
What the Census says about Cricklade’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Cricklade’s residents are under 50.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 27% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
In Cricklade, 8.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 88% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
27% of Cricklade is 65 or over, against 19% across Wiltshire’s towns and 18% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Cricklade, 50.1. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
Full-time students: 4.2%, 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%.
Against a figure of 11% across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Cricklade comes in at 10%. Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%.
2.3 people per household, fewer than in 60% 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.
In Cricklade, 28% of households are one person living alone, beside 30% across England’s towns. For Cricklade, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 2.6%.
Only 12% of households in Cricklade 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
Nearly one in ten households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. On average, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 21% in Cricklade.
In Cricklade, 98% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 67% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.7%). Elsewhere, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Cricklade has 7.1%.
In Cricklade, 53% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 73% 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: 94% of Cricklade · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (3.3%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Indian (0.4%). Cricklade has more residents who describe themselves as White British than 66% of UK towns, at 94%. Typically, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Residents with no religion: 39%, below three fifths of UK towns.
Above 88% of UK towns: 55% 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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 105 residents. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, 9.6% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 34%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
16% of Cricklade’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 34% have one at degree level (34%).
Ranked by age, 120th oldest of 530 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Bailrigg (18.9), the youngest, and Milford on Sea (64.6), the oldest. Nearest to Cricklade in age: Worlingham (50.1), Coggeshall (50.1), Kingswood (50.1) and Fordingbridge (50.1).
Nearby, 1 of 7 towns have older populations than Cricklade
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cricklade | 4,030 | — | 50.1 | 27% | 24% |
| Ashton Keynes | 1,425 | 3.2 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 28% |
| Broad Blunsdon | 6,507 | 3.5 mi | 38.6 | 14% | 39% |
| South Cerney | 3,998 | 3.6 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 29% |
| Purton | 3,193 | 3.8 mi | 49.3 | 24% | 24% |
| Swindon | 183,687 | 5.6 mi | 38.1 | 14% | 33% |
| Fairford | 4,240 | 5.7 mi | 45.8 | 24% | 28% |
| Stratton St Margaret | 20,689 | 6.3 mi | 46 | 22% | 25% |
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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 Cricklade’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 Cricklade’s residents
What is the population of Cricklade?
The 2021 Census counted 4,030 people in Cricklade’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cricklade?
The median age was 50.1 at the 2021 Census, older than 85% of UK towns. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cricklade?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 7.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cricklade?
39% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Cricklade good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cricklade’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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