Photo: Doug Lee · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54.7: Worton is older than 96% of UK towns
Households without a car or van make up 3.9%, against 24% across England’s towns. 586 residents in 255 households: that is Worton at the 2021 Census. For Worton, the census puts households with dependent children at 20%. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Worton sits below 96% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (7.6%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 92% 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
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
A lower share of full-time students than 91% of UK towns, at 3.7%
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%.
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%; Worton has 8.1%. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
One-person households make up 21% in Worton, less than in 97% 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.
A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 2% here, fewer than in 71% of UK towns. For comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
60% of households live in a detached house, more than in 96% 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
23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, against 2.4% in Worton. Few places have so few households in terraced houses: 7.5% here, fewer than in 94% of UK towns. The share of households in detached houses across England’s towns is 21%.
100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%). Lower than in just over three quarters of UK towns: 4.1% of residents were born outside the UK. Against that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 99% of UK towns, at 98%
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: 98% of Worton · Wiltshire’s towns 84% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%; Worton has 38%. Still, 55% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 81% of UK towns. To put it in context, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 61%
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
Where nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Worton has 11%. Some 17 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Across England’s towns, married adults and civil partners come to 44%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 39%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Worton, 15%, while 39% hold one at degree level (34%).
The towns around Worton are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worton | 586 | — | 54.7 | 31% | 20% |
| Potterne | 1,543 | 1.8 mi | 52.5 | 28% | 21% |
| Littleton Panell | 1,334 | 3.2 mi | 44.9 | 25% | 22% |
| Market Lavington | 1,810 | 3.4 mi | 50.1 | 22% | 25% |
| Devizes | 19,491 | 3.5 mi | 46.1 | 23% | 25% |
| Bowerhill | 3,976 | 4.4 mi | 45.4 | 20% | 29% |
| Bratton | 1,172 | 4.7 mi | 52.6 | 29% | 23% |
| Bromham | 1,066 | 4.9 mi | 54.1 | 29% | 18% |
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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 Worton’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 Worton’s residents
What is the population of Worton?
The 2021 Census counted 586 people in Worton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Worton?
The median age was 54.7 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Worton?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 84% across Wiltshire’s towns. 4.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Worton?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Worton good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Worton’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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