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Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe ward, Dover

Guston, Kingsdown & St Margaret's-at-Cliffe is one of 17 electoral wards of Dover District Council, in Kent (South East). At the 2021 Census it had 7,976 residents in 3,240 households — 199 people per km², the 3rd largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Dover and Deal constituency; for county elections it is in the Dover North division.

Residents, 20217,976council ward average 6,848
Households3,2402.46 residents per household
Density199/ km²about 40.02 km² · Dover 369
Aged 65+28.9%Dover: 24.0% · under 16: 17.9%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–43.8% · 303
5–95.1% · 410
10–158.9% · 714
16–195.2% · 416
20–243.0% · 242
25–348.4% · 671
35–4914.6% · 1,162
50–6422.0% · 1,752
65–7415.7% · 1,249
75–8410.3% · 818
85+3.0% · 241

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van9.9% · 321
1 car or van42.5% · 1,377
2 cars or vans34.2% · 1,109
3 or more13.4% · 433
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Dover overall: 66.2% owned, 13.9% social rented, 19.0% private rented.

Owned outright50.4% · 1,632
With mortgage26.9% · 873
Shared ownership0.4% · 14
Social rented7.0% · 226
Private rented15.2% · 494
Lives rent free0.0% · 1

Type of home

Detached house49.5% · 1,604
Semi-detached house27.0% · 875
Terraced house16.4% · 532
Purpose-built flat4.3% · 140
Converted house1.3% · 41
Other conversion0.8% · 25
Above shop / office0.5% · 16
Caravan, mobile0.2% · 7
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0Census figures for this ward as published on 2022 ward boundaries, which still apply.