Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Linton ranks below 80% of UK towns on households in flats: 5.6%
Married adults and civil partners: 53% here and 44% across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 25%. Residents with no religion are more common here than in 73% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Linton was home to 4,452 people in 1,876 households.
What the Census says about Linton’s people
Fewer people than in 2011
ONS mid-year estimates put Linton at 4,900 in 2011 and 4,800 in 2024, down 1%, against 10% for England: slower growth than in 88% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Slower growth than 88% of UK towns: Linton changed by −1% since 2011
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Linton’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 4,900 people in 2011; 4,800 in 2024.
Change by age ran from +33% for the 65 and over to −21% for the 30 to 44.
Older than 66% of UK towns: half of Linton is over 46.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 7.6% of residents. In Buckden, the oldest of Cambridgeshire’s towns by this measure, it is 30%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Linton, 46.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
Residents who moved in within the year: 7.2%, a lower share than 82% 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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Linton has 45% and 18%. The usual figure: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. On the census count, 5.3% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.4 people per household, more than in 69% 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: 3% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. Across Linton, 28% of households are one person living alone.
Linton sits above 63% of UK towns for households in detached houses (34%)
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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 17% of households live in a terraced house in Linton. Still, 5.6% of households live in a flat, less than in 80% of UK towns; 34% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. On the census count, 14% of households have no car or van.
Linton sits above 68% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (8.7%)
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
Since 2017: 16% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. 97% of residents have English as their main language.
Fewer residents who describe themselves as White British than 63% of UK towns: 90%
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: 90% of Linton · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 46% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian in Linton comes in at 47%. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British. Next after White British come Other White (5.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Indian (0.7%).
29% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 74% 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
For 99 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 39%. There is little gap on unpaid carers: 9.1%, about the same as across England’s towns.
42% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
13% of Linton’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 42% have one at degree level (34%).
Ranked by age, 339th oldest of 695 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Bailrigg (18.9) and the oldest Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe (64.7). Nearest to Linton in age: Melbourne (46.7), Cosby (46.7), Backwell (46.7) and Hadlow (46.7).
Linton sits below 2 of its 7 closest neighbours on 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linton | 4,452 | — | 46.7 | 25% | 28% |
| Balsham | 1,625 | 2.6 mi | 50.7 | 28% | 26% |
| Great Chesterford | 1,775 | 4.3 mi | 42.2 | 19% | 35% |
| Sawston | 7,270 | 5.1 mi | 43.5 | 22% | 29% |
| Duxford | 2,216 | 5.5 mi | 44.3 | 21% | 31% |
| Saffron Walden | 16,609 | 5.7 mi | 43.8 | 21% | 29% |
| Whittlesford | 1,608 | 6 mi | 48 | 24% | 29% |
| Haverhill | 26,704 | 6.4 mi | 39.2 | 16% | 32% |
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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 Linton’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Linton’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 4,763 people in 2021, against 4,452 in the built-up area.
- 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 Linton’s residents
What is the population of Linton?
The 2021 Census counted 4,452 people in Linton’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 4,800 people in mid-2024, about as many as in 2011.
What is the average age in Linton?
The median age was 46.7 at the 2021 Census, older than 66% of UK towns. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Linton?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 8.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Linton?
44% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Linton good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Linton’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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