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Chalfont St Peter ward, Buckinghamshire

Chalfont St Peter is one of 49 electoral wards of Buckinghamshire County Council (South East). At the 2021 Census it had 13,382 residents in 5,213 households — 831 people per km², the 15th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Chesham and Amersham constituency.

Residents, 202113,382council ward average 11,288
Households5,2132.57 residents per household
Density831/ km²about 16.11 km² · Buckinghamshire 353
Aged 65+22.7%Buckinghamshire: 18.7% · under 16: 19.5%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–45.2% · 694
5–96.1% · 822
10–158.1% · 1,088
16–194.2% · 563
20–244.1% · 546
25–348.3% · 1,110
35–4919.2% · 2,562
50–6422.1% · 2,958
65–7410.7% · 1,430
75–847.9% · 1,061
85+4.0% · 538

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van8.4% · 436
1 car or van34.0% · 1,775
2 cars or vans39.0% · 2,036
3 or more18.5% · 967
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Buckinghamshire overall: 70.0% owned, 12.9% social rented, 15.7% private rented.

Owned outright42.8% · 2,230
With mortgage37.5% · 1,955
Shared ownership0.4% · 22
Social rented8.9% · 465
Private rented10.3% · 536
Lives rent free0.0% · 1

Type of home

Detached house56.4% · 2,942
Semi-detached house19.8% · 1,030
Terraced house9.1% · 477
Purpose-built flat11.5% · 600
Converted house1.4% · 71
Other conversion0.4% · 19
Above shop / office1.0% · 54
Caravan, mobile0.4% · 21
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0This ward was drawn after the 2021 Census: figures are built up from the 8 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.