Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Fovant is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 56.1
Where 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, Fovant has 19%. There were 328 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 716 residents. The census found that just over a fifth of households have dependent children here. More households in detached houses than in 99% of UK towns: 67%.
Fovant sits below 99% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (6.5%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 18% across England’s towns, 33% of residents are 65 or over in Fovant. Against that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns, at 2.8%
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%.
Compared with 11% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier here. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Smaller households than 77% of UK towns: 2.2 people on average
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.8%, below 78% of UK towns. Locally, 29% of households are one person living alone.
Only 5.8% of households have no car or van in Fovant
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 a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, against 5.7% in Fovant. Households in terraced houses account for 11%. Every 17th household or so has no car or van.
8.1% born outside the UK, more than in 64% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (4.5%) or in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%). Across England’s towns, residents born outside the UK come to 18%. In Fovant, 98% of residents have English as their main language, beside 90% across England’s towns.
Fovant: 62% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 96% 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: 95% of Fovant · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (4.6%), Mixed or multiple (0.4%) and Bangladeshi (0.1%). 32% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 90% of UK towns. As a reference point, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Compared with 73% across England’s towns, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British here.
56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 92% 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
20 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. For married adults and civil partners, the comparison across England’s towns is 44%. Unpaid carers: 9.6%, near enough the figure across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 42%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Fovant, 42% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 12% have no qualification at all (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Fovant
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 Fovant’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 Fovant’s residents
What is the population of Fovant?
The 2021 Census counted 716 people in Fovant’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fovant?
The median age was 56.1 at the 2021 Census. 6.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fovant?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 8.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fovant?
32% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Fovant good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fovant’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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