Church of Saint Mary the Virgin · Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.03.3% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 91% of UK towns
At 2.4 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Maulden’s 1,025 households held 2,486 residents at the 2021 Census. The census found that nearly one in ten households have no car or van in the village. 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a higher share than in 73% of UK towns.
Maulden sits above 84% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (11%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 20%, against 18% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. With a median age of 45.6, Maulden is older than 58% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year: 6.8%, a lower share than 88% of UK towns
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Maulden has 43% and 18%. 5.6% of adults are full-time students. As a reference point, 11% of 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.
25% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 87% 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.
Families with dependent children are 30% of households (England’s towns 29%), and 12% are someone 66 or over living alone (Bedfordshire’s towns 11%). Higher than in nearly four fifths of UK towns: 3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Maulden: 45% of households live in a detached house, above 85% of UK towns
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
The share of households in terraced houses is 22%, against 24% across England’s towns. 3.3% of households live in a flat, less than in 91% of UK towns; 45% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Above 90% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
4.9% of residents were born outside the UK, against 23% across Bedfordshire’s towns and 18% across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.5%).
51% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 59% 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: 92% of Maulden · Bedfordshire’s towns 61% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
92% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns. Against that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Here, just over two in five residents said they have no religion.
Maulden ranks below 56% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 32%
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
63 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. As a reference point, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 9.2%, from the figure across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 37%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 37% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 14% hold no qualification (18%).
A younger town than 2 of the 7 around it: Maulden
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 Maulden’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 Maulden’s residents
What is the population of Maulden?
The 2021 Census counted 2,486 people in Maulden’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Maulden?
The median age was 45.6 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Maulden?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 61% across Bedfordshire’s towns. 4.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Maulden?
42% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Maulden good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Maulden’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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