Photo: Paul Bryan · CC BY-SA 2.00.4% of households live in a flat or apartment, below 99% of UK towns
In Glinton the average household is 2.5 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. The 2021 Census counted 1,743 residents in 695 households. Census figures put households in detached houses at 58% in the village. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 57% here, more than in 93% of UK towns.
A median age of 49.5: Glinton is older than 83% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 12%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. In Buckden, the oldest of Cambridgeshire’s towns by this measure, it is 30%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Glinton sits below 76% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (7.5%)
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%.
Here 6.9% 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.
21% of households are one person living alone, below 97% 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.
The figure for households with dependent children is 30% in Glinton and 29% across England’s towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 1.7%.
Households in terraced houses: 3.2%, a lower share than 99% 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
Across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 24%; Glinton has 8.9%.
Above 60% of UK towns: 7.4% of residents were born outside the UK
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.9%), then in the Middle East and Asia (2.3%). Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Since 2017: 6.2% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns.
Glinton: 56% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 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: 89% of Glinton · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (3.3%), Indian (3.1%) and Mixed or multiple (2.1%). The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%. On residents with no religion, Glinton sits lower than 82% of UK towns: 35%. Add to that, the figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 89% in Glinton and 73% across England’s towns.
Below 80% of UK towns: 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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 make up one in ten residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. For adults who have never married, the comparison across England’s towns is 39%.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 31%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Glinton, 31%, and 16% have none, against 18%. The highest qualification of 18% is A levels, often students still at university.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 2 are older than Glinton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glinton | 1,743 | — | 49.5 | 24% | 30% |
| Northborough | 1,336 | 1.6 mi | 53.4 | 33% | 26% |
| Helpston | 1,249 | 2.2 mi | 45 | 19% | 35% |
| Deeping St James | 7,255 | 2.6 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 27% |
| Newborough | 1,469 | 3 mi | 45.7 | 22% | 32% |
| Market Deeping | 6,533 | 3.2 mi | 46.8 | 25% | 27% |
| Peterborough | 190,592 | 4.4 mi | 35.9 | 13% | 35% |
| Langtoft | 2,010 | 4.6 mi | 50 | 25% | 29% |
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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 Glinton’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 Glinton’s residents
What is the population of Glinton?
The 2021 Census counted 1,743 people in Glinton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Glinton?
The median age was 49.5 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Glinton?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 7.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Glinton?
35% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.9% were Muslim and 4.5% didn’t answer.
Is Glinton good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Glinton’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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