Editing Shepton Mallet (section)

==Demography==
In the 2001 census the population was 8,981: 4,482 (49.9%) male and 4,499 (50.1%) female, with 1,976 (22%) aged 16 or below, 5,781 (64.4%) between 16 and 65, and 1,224 (13.6%) 65 or over.<ref name="census">{{Cite web |url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination |title=Neighbourhood Statistics (Shepton Mallet Civil Parish) |year=2001 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=30 December 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231031422/http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/ |archive-date=31 December 2008}}</ref>

Of those aged 16–74, 4,200 (66%) were employed and only 224 (3.5%) unemployed, the rest being economically inactive. About 69% of the employed were in service industries, the rest in manufacturing, while 1,459 people had managerial or professional occupations, 522 were self-employed, and 1,888 worked in routine and semi-routine occupations.<ref name="census"/> Some 3,714 dwellings were recorded, of which 2,621 (70.6%) were owner-occupied, 515 (13.9%) rented privately and 578 (15.6%) from social landlords; 3,688 (99.3%) heads of households were white.<ref name="census"/>