Photo: Robert Whittaker · CC BY 3.0Bredon is older than 89% of UK towns: a median age of 50.9
The share of households without a car or van is 7.4%, against 24% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census counted 2,071 residents in 901 households. For Bredon, the census puts adults who have never married at 22%. The village has fewer households in flats than 88% of UK towns, at 3.9%.
What the Census says about Bredon’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Bredon’s residents are under 50.9 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Below 89% of UK towns: 8.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, Bredon has 28%. Measured more widely, 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 91 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.
Full-time students: 4.3%, a lower share than 73% 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%.
The figure for residents who moved in within the year is 9.1% in Bredon and 11% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 25% of households in Bredon are one person living alone
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Worcestershire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
In Bredon the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. By contrast, at 2%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 70% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Here, just over a quarter of households have dependent children.
More detached houses than 95% of UK towns: 58% of households
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
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 9.7% of households live in a terraced house here. Across England’s towns, households in detached houses come to 21%.
3.8% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 80% 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.7%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%). Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are common here: 99%, more than in 78% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 88% of UK towns: 96%
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 Bredon · Worcestershire’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (1.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Indian (0.1%). 58% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 90% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 73% across England’s towns, for comparison. Across England’s towns, 37% of residents said they have no religion; in Bredon, 35%.
60% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 98% of UK towns don’t reach
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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 42. Elsewhere, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.5%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 40% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 40% of adults in Bredon (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 12% (England’s towns: 18%).
Older than Bredon: 4 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bredon | 2,071 | — | 50.9 | 28% | 26% |
| Twyning | 1,079 | 1.6 mi | 51.8 | 29% | 25% |
| Northway | 4,858 | 1.7 mi | 42.2 | 19% | 26% |
| Ashchurch | 1,102 | 2.2 mi | 38.7 | 19% | 29% |
| Eckington | 1,256 | 2.9 mi | 55.8 | 34% | 21% |
| Tewkesbury | 14,387 | 3.3 mi | 44 | 21% | 26% |
| Upton upon Severn | 2,403 | 5.1 mi | 54.1 | 31% | 16% |
| Gotherington | 1,131 | 5.2 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 27% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Worcestershire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Worcestershire (or England), summed the same way as Bredon’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 Bredon’s residents
What is the population of Bredon?
The 2021 Census counted 2,071 people in Bredon’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bredon?
The median age was 50.9 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bredon?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Worcestershire’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bredon?
35% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Bredon good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bredon’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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