Photo: Ben Brooksbank · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 5.2% of households in Dinton have no car or van
With households in flats at 2.3%, Dinton is behind 96% of UK towns on that count. The 2021 Census counted 856 residents in 348 households. The share of one-person households stands at 22%. Higher than in 87% of UK towns: 57% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
Dinton ranks below 93% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 8%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Dinton’s residents are over 48.8, older than in nearly four in five UK towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Locally, 25% of residents are 65 or over. In Mere, the oldest of Wiltshire’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Dinton, 4.3% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 73% 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%.
By class, 38% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Dinton has fewer residents who moved in within the year than 72% of UK towns, at 7.7%. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Dinton households average 2.4 people, larger than in 81% 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.
Set against 4.3% across England’s towns, 2.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Dinton. At 29%, the share of households with dependent children is higher than in nearly two thirds of UK towns.
Above 91% of UK towns: 52% of households live in a detached house
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
Where 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Dinton has 17%. 2.3% of households live in a flat, less than in 96% of UK towns; 52% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 77% 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
Residents born outside the UK: 6.1% here and 18% across England’s towns. To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (3.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%).
More residents who describe themselves as White British than 82% of UK towns: 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 Dinton · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
38% of residents said they have no religion (England’s towns: 37%). For comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Dinton: 57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 93% 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 carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 22. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 27%, fewer than in 85% of UK towns. On unpaid carers, 9.5% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of adults in Dinton (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 13% (England’s towns: 18%).
2 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Dinton
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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 Dinton’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 Dinton’s residents
What is the population of Dinton?
The 2021 Census counted 856 people in Dinton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dinton?
The median age was 48.8 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dinton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dinton?
38% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.7% didn’t answer.
Is Dinton good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dinton’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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