Photo: My another account · Public domainResidents aged 15 to 24: 7.2%, a lower share than 98% of UK towns
With adults who have never married at 25%, Holt is behind 91% of UK towns on that count. Fewer households without a car or van than in 87% of UK towns: 9%. There were 746 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 1,704 residents. In Holt, 46% of households live in a detached house.
Holt is older than 84% of UK towns: a median age of 49.9
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 8% of residents. 27% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 82% of UK towns. In Mere, the oldest of Wiltshire’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
3.4% of adults are full-time students, below 96% 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%.
In Holt, 43% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 6.3% of the total.
A smaller share of households with dependent children than 63% of UK towns: 26%
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.
30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, against 31% in Holt. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are common here: 2.7%, more than in 66% of UK towns. As a reference point, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. On average, 2.3 people share a household.
Households in flats make up 4% in Holt, less than in 88% 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
Where 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Holt has 19%. Measured more widely, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Holt sits above 66% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (98%)
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 (2.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%). For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. Nearly a tenth of the town’s residents born abroad came in 2017 or later, set against 21% across England’s towns.
Holt sits above 66% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (94%)
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 Holt · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.8%), Mixed or multiple (2%) and Indian (0.3%). Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White British come to 73%. Against a figure of 46% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian in Holt comes in at 50%.
Holt: 54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 86% 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: 41. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, 9.3% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 44% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Holt’s adults: 44% with a degree-level qualification and 13% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Holt
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holt | 1,704 | — | 49.9 | 27% | 26% |
| Berryfield | 1,094 | 2.3 mi | 45.7 | 23% | 26% |
| Bradford-on-Avon | 9,864 | 2.3 mi | 49.6 | 29% | 24% |
| Atworth | 1,293 | 2.4 mi | 49.6 | 29% | 24% |
| Trowbridge | 43,753 | 2.6 mi | 41.4 | 18% | 29% |
| Melksham | 18,277 | 3.1 mi | 42.8 | 21% | 28% |
| Bowerhill | 3,976 | 3.2 mi | 45.4 | 20% | 29% |
| Winsley | 1,365 | 3.8 mi | 53.1 | 33% | 27% |
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 Holt’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 Holt’s residents
What is the population of Holt?
The 2021 Census counted 1,704 people in Holt’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Holt?
The median age was 49.9 at the 2021 Census. 7.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Holt?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 6.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Holt?
41% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 7.5% didn’t answer.
Is Holt good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Holt’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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