Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 92% of UK towns: half of Stanbridge is over 51.9
Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%; Stanbridge has 63%. 445 residents in 176 households: that is Stanbridge at the 2021 Census. Households without a car or van: 8% of the total. Fewer adults who have never married than in 97% of UK towns: 23%.
In Stanbridge, 28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 83% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across England’s towns. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Stanbridge sits below 95% of UK towns for full-time students (3.5%)
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Stanbridge, 42% and 15%. At 9.8%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is higher than in 71% of UK towns. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
20% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 98% 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.
26% of households have dependent children, against 29% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Average household size: 2.5 people. Few places have as many shared households of unrelated adults: 2.8% here, more than in 71% of UK towns.
A smaller share of households in terraced houses than 85% of UK towns: 11%
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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
A smaller share of residents born outside the UK than 65% of UK towns: 4.9%
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
97% of residents have English as their main language (England’s towns: 90%). For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (3.4%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%).
56% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 84% 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 Stanbridge · Bedfordshire’s towns 61% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
With residents with no religion at 38%, Stanbridge is behind 69% of UK towns on that count. For comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (5.6%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Indian (0.7%).
Married adults and civil partners make up 61% in Stanbridge, more than in 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: 11% here and 8.7% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 7 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
32% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 32% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 16% hold no qualification (18%).
Around Stanbridge, 1 of 7 towns have a higher median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanbridge | 445 | — | 51.9 | 28% | 26% |
| Hockliffe | 1,068 | 1.6 mi | 38.4 | 13% | 32% |
| Totternhoe | 1,017 | 2.1 mi | 53.6 | 31% | 19% |
| Eaton Bray and Edlesborough | 4,201 | 2.5 mi | 49.4 | 27% | 25% |
| Leighton Buzzard | 42,736 | 2.9 mi | 39.4 | 17% | 32% |
| Houghton Regis | 18,814 | 3.3 mi | 36.5 | 12% | 37% |
| Dunstable | 34,498 | 3.3 mi | 39 | 17% | 31% |
| Toddington | 4,509 | 3.6 mi | 46.6 | 22% | 29% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Stanbridge’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 Stanbridge’s residents
What is the population of Stanbridge?
The 2021 Census counted 445 people in Stanbridge’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stanbridge?
The median age was 51.9 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stanbridge?
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 Stanbridge?
38% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 3.4% didn’t answer.
Is Stanbridge good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stanbridge’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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