Find out more about our communities in Torbay and how we use this information to meet our equalities duties.
It is vital that we understand who lives and works in our communities so that we can meet their needs.
We publish information about the different communities in our area each year to help us to do that and, to meet our specific duties under our Public Sector Equality Duty. We use this information to identify help inform the decisions we take and, the way we plan and deliver our services.
All statistics within this section are from the 2021 Census unless otherwise stated. Where information is available at a Southwest and England level this has been included to enable comparisons.
Further analysis of the below data can be found in the Torbay Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. Data source rounding can lead to very slight differences in the figures on different reports.
| Area | Children aged 15 or under | Aged 16 to 64 | Aged 65 and over |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay | 15.9% | 57.3% | 26.7% |
| Southwest | 17% | 60.6% | 22.4% |
| England | 18.5% | 63% | 18.3% |
| Area | Identify as a trans woman | Identify as a trans man | Identify as non-binary or use another term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Southwest | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| England | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Area | Percentage of the population affected |
|---|---|
| England | 17.3% |
| Southwest | 18.6% |
| Torbay | 23.8% |
* People who have their day-to-day activities limited either a lot or a little by their disability or long-term health condition.
| Area | Married or in a registered civil partnership |
|---|---|
| Torbay | 44.2% |
| Southwest | 46.5% |
| England | 44.7% |
** Aged 16 and over at the time of the 2021 Census.
| Area | White British | Asian, Asian British or Asian Welsh | Black, black British, black Welsh, Caribbean or African | Mixed heritage or of multiple ethnic groups | Another ethnic group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay | 96.1% | 1.6% | 0.3% | 1.5% | 0.4% |
| Southwest | 93.1% | 2.8% | 1.2% | 2% | 0.9% |
| England | 81.7% | 9.6% | 4.2% | 3% | 2.2% |
| Area | Religious or have a belief | Christian | Buddhist | Hindu | Jewish | Muslim | Sikh | Another religion | No religion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay | 50.5% | 48.5% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 43.2% |
| Southwest | 50.5% | 46.2% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 1.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 43.2% |
| England | 50.5% | 46.2% | 0.5% | 1.8% | 0.5% | 6.7% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 37.2% |
| Area | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|
| Torbay | 51.3% | 48.7% |
| Southwest | 51.1% | 48.9% |
| England | 51% | 49% |
| Area | Straight or heterosexual | Gay or lesbian | Bisexual | Pansexual, asexual, queer or use another term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torbay | 89.5% | 1.7% | 1.1% | 0.3% |
| Southwest | 89.5% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 0.3% |
| England | 89.4% | 1.5% | 1.3% | 0.3% |