Photo: David from Colorado Springs, United States · CC BY 2.0Only 4.9% of households in Pidley have no car or van
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 3.3% of households live in a terraced house here. Census day 2021: 421 residents and 185 households in Pidley. The census found that just over three in five adults are married or in a civil partnership locally. Few places have so few one-person households: 26% here, fewer than in four fifths of UK towns.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 94% of UK towns, at 7.8%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 60–64: one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over. The median age in Pidley is 47.9, higher than in 74% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students make up 3.1% in Pidley, less than in 98% 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 work; in Pidley, 40% and 14%. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. On the census count, 6.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Only 25% of households in Pidley have dependent children
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.
A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Set beside that, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. For Pidley, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 2.2%.
Pidley sits above 98% of UK towns for households in detached houses (64%)
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 in flats at 3.3%, Pidley is behind 92% of UK towns on that count. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
11% born outside the UK, more than in 77% of UK towns
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
Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 96% of residents have English as their main language here. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (4.1%) and in EU countries (3.9%).
Above 75% of UK towns: 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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 Pidley · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here nearly nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. For Pidley, the census puts residents with no religion at 42%.
Fewer adults who have never married than 91% of UK towns: 25%
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 care takes 50 hours a week or more for 7 people. On unpaid carers, Pidley sits lower than 97% of UK towns: 6.8%. To put it in context, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 34%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 34% of its adults qualified to degree level, Pidley compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 12% hold no qualification (18%).
Around Pidley, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pidley | 421 | — | 47.9 | 22% | 25% |
| Warboys | 4,318 | 1.9 mi | 42.5 | 20% | 28% |
| Somersham | 3,349 | 2.1 mi | 47.1 | 23% | 25% |
| Bluntisham and Colne | 2,790 | 3.1 mi | 49.5 | 24% | 27% |
| St Ives | 16,818 | 3.7 mi | 43.3 | 21% | 25% |
| Wyton | 1,248 | 3.8 mi | 31.4 | 4.1% | 48% |
| Needingworth | 2,059 | 3.8 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 24% |
| Earith | 1,656 | 3.9 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 27% |
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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 Pidley’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 Pidley’s residents
What is the population of Pidley?
The 2021 Census counted 421 people in Pidley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pidley?
The median age was 47.9 at the 2021 Census. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pidley?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pidley?
42% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.8% didn’t answer.
Is Pidley good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Pidley’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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