Photo: Trish Steel · CC BY-SA 2.0Winterbourne Gunner is younger than 87% of UK towns: a median age of 38.7
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 7.4% of households have no car or van in Winterbourne Gunner. There were 242 households in the village at the 2021 Census, home to 613 residents. The census found that 45% of households live in a detached house here. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 93% of UK towns.
In Winterbourne Gunner, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 87% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
0–4 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. For Winterbourne Gunner, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 19%. On average, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Winterbourne Gunner, 13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 94% 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%.
Full-time students make up 6.2%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
A lower share of one-person households than 94% of UK towns, at 23%
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.
Nearly a third of households have dependent children, against 29% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Average household size: 2.5 people.
Only 9.5% of households live in a terraced house in Winterbourne Gunner
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
Against a figure of 23% across England’s towns, the share of households in flats in Winterbourne Gunner comes in at 8.7%. Set beside that, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Winterbourne Gunner ranks above 80% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 99%
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
7.3% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. Set beside that, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (2.3%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.6%).
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 58%, a higher share than 90% 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: 92% of Winterbourne Gunner · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 36%, against 37% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (4.6%), Caribbean (0.5%) and Bangladeshi (0.3%).
Below 85% of UK towns: 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
14 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Set beside that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 9.5%.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 36%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Winterbourne Gunner’s adults: 36% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns. The highest qualification of 23% is A levels, often students still at university.
Of the 7 towns nearest Winterbourne Gunner, 5 are older
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
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Winterbourne Gunner’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 Winterbourne Gunner’s residents
What is the population of Winterbourne Gunner?
The 2021 Census counted 613 people in Winterbourne Gunner’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Winterbourne Gunner?
The median age was 38.7 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Winterbourne Gunner?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 7.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Winterbourne Gunner?
36% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Winterbourne Gunner good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Winterbourne Gunner’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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