Photo: Vieve Forward · CC BY-SA 2.0Minety ranks below 99% of UK towns on one-person households: 17%
Across England’s towns, 21% of households live in a detached house; in Minety, 72%. 858 residents in 347 households: that is Minety at the 2021 Census. Households in terraced houses account for 4.3%. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 96%, more than in 87% of UK towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.6% in Minety, less than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With residents aged 65 and over at 29%, Minety is ahead of 87% of UK towns on that count. The median age here is 50.9, higher than in 89% of UK towns. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
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.
Full-time students make up 3.3% in Minety, less than in 97% 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%.
Here 8.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
2.5 people per household, more than in 87% 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.
Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children; in Minety, 25%. On the census count, 3.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Fewer households in flats than 98% of UK towns: 1.5%
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
The figure for households without a car or van is 5.5% in Minety and 24% across England’s towns. Against that, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
2.7% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 95% 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
Where nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Minety has 99%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.1%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%.
Minety: 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 92% 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 Minety · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 37% across England’s towns, just over a third of residents said they have no religion here. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (0.8%) and Indian (0.7%).
Married adults and civil partners make up 65% in Minety, more than in 99% 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
For 16 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 20% here, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 7.5% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns.
44% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 44% of its adults qualified to degree level, Minety compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 12% hold no qualification (18%).
Around Minety, 1 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minety | 858 | — | 50.9 | 29% | 25% |
| Ashton Keynes | 1,425 | 2.5 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 28% |
| Purton | 3,193 | 4.1 mi | 49.3 | 24% | 24% |
| South Cerney | 3,998 | 4.5 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 29% |
| Cricklade | 4,030 | 4.7 mi | 50.1 | 27% | 24% |
| Royal Wootton Bassett | 13,002 | 5.6 mi | 45.7 | 23% | 27% |
| Malmesbury | 7,184 | 6.3 mi | 43.9 | 21% | 29% |
| Cirencester | 17,715 | 6.9 mi | 45.5 | 23% | 24% |
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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 Minety’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 Minety’s residents
What is the population of Minety?
The 2021 Census counted 858 people in Minety’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Minety?
The median age was 50.9 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Minety?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 2.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Minety?
34% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Minety good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Minety’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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