Photo: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 7.1% of households have no car or van in Stetchworth
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 trails 93% of UK towns: 8%. Few places have so few households in flats: 3.7% here, fewer than in 89% of UK towns. Stetchworth counted 655 residents and 297 households at the 2021 Census. Locally, nearly a quarter of households have dependent children.
Half of Stetchworth is over 48.8, older than 79% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 50–54, with nearly one in ten residents. Stetchworth has more residents aged 65 and over than 72% of UK towns, at 25%. 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 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: 9.4%, a higher share than 64% 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%.
39% of Stetchworth’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 18% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across England’s towns is 11%. Across Stetchworth, 4.7% of adults are full-time students.
Smaller households than 69% of UK towns: 2.2 people on average
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.
30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, against 28% in Stetchworth. Across Stetchworth, 5.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
A village of detached houses: 50% of households live in one
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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses in Stetchworth comes in at 14%. 3.7% of households live in a flat, less than in 89% of UK towns; 50% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
In Stetchworth, 12% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 79% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (6.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.7%). As a reference point, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Here 97% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%.
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 85% of UK towns: 56%
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 Stetchworth · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 73% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British in Stetchworth comes in at 89%. As a reference point, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. On the census count, 36% of residents said they have no religion.
Above 75% of UK towns: 52% of adults are married or in 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
Against a figure of 39% across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married in Stetchworth comes in at 30%. Fewer unpaid carers than in 93% of UK towns: 7.3%. On average, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. For 10 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 38%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 38% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 15% hold no qualification (18%).
Stetchworth sits below 1 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Stetchworth’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 Stetchworth’s residents
What is the population of Stetchworth?
The 2021 Census counted 655 people in Stetchworth’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stetchworth?
The median age was 48.8 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stetchworth?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 12% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stetchworth?
36% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Stetchworth good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stetchworth’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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