Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0Sutton Veny is older than 98% of UK towns: a median age of 57.3
60% of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns. Sutton Veny’s 310 households held 663 residents at the 2021 Census. Households with dependent children: 16% of the total. More married adults and civil partners than in 92% of UK towns: 56%.
Only 6.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Sutton Veny
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: just over one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 34%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Fewer full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 2.2%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 11%. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Sutton Veny households average 2.1 people, smaller than in 95% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.9%, above nearly three quarters of UK towns. The census found that 30% of households are one person living alone in Sutton Veny.
Fewer households in flats than 93% of UK towns: 3%
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 share of households in terraced houses is 16%, against 24% across England’s towns. For comparison, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. The census found that 52% of households live in a detached house in Sutton Veny. On households without a car or van, Sutton Veny sits lower than 87% of UK towns: 9.1%.
Sutton Veny sits above 77% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (11%)
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (5.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (2.1%). The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%. 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, against 98% in Sutton Veny.
Sutton Veny sits below 88% of UK towns for residents with no religion (33%)
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 Sutton Veny · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (4%), Mixed or multiple (1.2%) and Indian (0.2%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 94%, more than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. For residents with no religion, the comparison across England’s towns is 37%.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 98% of UK towns: 22%
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
In Sutton Veny, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care, beside 8.7% across England’s towns. The share of adults who have never married across England’s towns is 39%. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 22.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 40%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Sutton Veny, 40% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 13% have no qualification at all (18%).
Sutton Veny is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Veny | 663 | — | 57.3 | 34% | 16% |
| Warminster | 18,018 | 2.7 mi | 46 | 24% | 24% |
| Dilton Marsh | 1,958 | 5.9 mi | 50.4 | 26% | 23% |
| Westbury | 16,394 | 6.2 mi | 40.9 | 19% | 29% |
| Bratton | 1,172 | 6.6 mi | 52.6 | 29% | 23% |
| Mere | 2,808 | 7.9 mi | 55.4 | 35% | 17% |
| Tisbury | 2,274 | 8 mi | 52.9 | 31% | 20% |
| Frome | 27,904 | 8.5 mi | 42.6 | 20% | 29% |
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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 Sutton Veny’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 Sutton Veny’s residents
What is the population of Sutton Veny?
The 2021 Census counted 663 people in Sutton Veny’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Sutton Veny?
The median age was 57.3 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Sutton Veny?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Sutton Veny?
33% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Sutton Veny good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Sutton Veny’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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