Photo: Family · CC BY 3.0Greenfield sits below 99% of UK towns for households without a car or van (3.8%)
0.6% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Greenfield is home to 416 residents in 155 households, by the 2021 Census. The share of one-person households stands at 17%. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 98% of UK towns.
Half of Greenfield is over 48.4, older than 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 8.9% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents aged 65 and over are common here: 24%, more than in 66% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 71% of UK towns: 7.8%
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%.
With full-time students at 5.2%, Greenfield is ahead of 66% of UK towns on that count. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Greenfield: 33% of households have dependent children, above 88% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Bedfordshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.6 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 5.2%. To put it in context, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
A higher share of households in detached houses than 98% of UK towns, at 66%
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
By its share of households in terraced houses (11%), Greenfield is below 87% of UK towns. 0.6% of households live in a flat, less than in 99% of UK towns; 66% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
5.3% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 61% 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 30%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.9%). The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. The share of residents whose main language is English is 98%, against 90% across England’s towns.
In Greenfield, 62% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 96% of UK towns
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: 88% of Greenfield · Bedfordshire’s towns 61% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (4.6%), Mixed or multiple (3.4%) and Indian (2.7%). Greenfield has fewer residents with no religion than 89% of UK towns, at 32%. The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns is 46%. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Greenfield has 88%.
Married adults and civil partners: 66%, a higher share than 99% of UK towns
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
Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns: 8.6%. For 6 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Married adults and civil partners: 44% across England’s towns, for comparison.
35% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 35% of its adults qualified to degree level, Greenfield compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 10% hold no qualification (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Greenfield, 1 are older
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “Bedfordshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Bedfordshire (or England), summed the same way as Greenfield’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 Greenfield’s residents
What is the population of Greenfield?
The 2021 Census counted 416 people in Greenfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Greenfield?
The median age was 48.4 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Greenfield?
88% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 61% across Bedfordshire’s towns. 5.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Greenfield?
32% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.1% didn’t answer.
Is Greenfield good for families?
33% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Greenfield’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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