Photo: Philip Jeffrey · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 94% of UK towns: half of Barton is over 53.2
Just over a fifth of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; across England’s towns the figure is 39%. Barton’s 233 households held 504 residents at the 2021 Census. Across Barton, 20% of households have dependent children. One-person households are more common here than in 88% of UK towns.
34% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Barton has 7.5%. Across the comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 99% of UK towns, at 5.6%
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%.
Here 5.1% of adults are full-time students, where the figure across England’s towns is 7.9%. Across England’s towns, residents who moved in within the year come to 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Barton households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 79% of UK towns
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.9%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
1.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 97% 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
Just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, against 40% in Barton. As a yardstick, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. The census found that 8.2% of households live in a terraced house here. Compared with other places, households without a car or van are scarce here: 10%, fewer than in 82% of UK towns.
A larger share of residents born outside the UK than 88% of UK towns: 16%
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
97% of residents have English as their main language; across England’s towns the figure is 90%. For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (6.4%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (3.4%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 83%, a lower share than 81% 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: 83% of Barton · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Asked about religion, 39% answered none, against 37% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The groups that follow White British are Other White (6.4%), Mixed or multiple (3.8%) and African (2%).
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 93% of UK towns: 57%
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
13 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. To put it in context, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, Barton sits lower than two thirds of UK towns: 8.7%.
57% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 57% of adults in Barton, 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification, against 18%.
Every nearby town is younger than Barton
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.
- “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 Barton’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 Barton’s residents
What is the population of Barton?
The 2021 Census counted 504 people in Barton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Barton?
The median age was 53.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Barton?
83% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 16% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Barton?
39% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 9% didn’t answer.
Is Barton good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Barton’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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