Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 6.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24
The share of married adults and civil partners tops 94% of UK towns: 57%. Lower than in 93% of UK towns: 3% of households live in a flat or apartment. Barnack had 1,007 residents and 440 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 45.7. The census found that 58% of residents describe themselves as Christian locally.
What the Census says about Barnack’s people
A village people move to
14% of residents gave a different address a year before the 2021 Census, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. Students & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
A median age of 45.7: Barnack is older than 59% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 45–49: 9.3% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over account for 22%.
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.
Fewer full-time students than 98% of UK towns: 3.1%
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%.
Compared with 11% across England’s towns, 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%.
A larger share of one-person households than 69% of UK towns: 32%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cambridgeshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
There is little gap on households with dependent children: 29%, about the same as across England’s towns. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%. Households here average 2.3 people each.
More households in detached houses than 94% of UK towns: 57%
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
With households without a car or van at 12%, Barnack is behind 71% of UK towns on that count. As a yardstick, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. On the census count, 18% of households live in a terraced house.
Above 66% of UK towns: 98% 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 25%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
6% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (3.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%). Elsewhere, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 93% in Barnack, more than in 61% 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: 93% of Barnack · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 36% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. The groups that follow White British are Other White (3.6%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Indian (0.6%). Set beside that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 92% 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
16 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Compared with other places, unpaid carers are scarce here: 8.6%, fewer than in 70% of UK towns. Across the comparison, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
42% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
16% of Barnack’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 42% have one at degree level (34%).
4 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Barnack
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnack | 1,007 | — | 45.7 | 22% | 29% |
| Wittering | 2,678 | 2.2 mi | 32.5 | 5.6% | 40% |
| Helpston | 1,249 | 2.6 mi | 45 | 19% | 35% |
| Stamford | 20,745 | 3.7 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 25% |
| Easton on the Hill | 1,096 | 4.2 mi | 50.3 | 25% | 22% |
| Ryhall | 1,444 | 4.3 mi | 51.9 | 30% | 23% |
| Glinton | 1,743 | 4.8 mi | 49.5 | 24% | 30% |
| Castor and Ailsworth | 1,461 | 4.8 mi | 49.7 | 25% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Cambridgeshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cambridgeshire (or England), summed the same way as Barnack’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 Barnack’s residents
What is the population of Barnack?
The 2021 Census counted 1,007 people in Barnack’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Barnack?
The median age was 45.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Barnack?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Barnack?
36% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Barnack good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Barnack’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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