Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in terraced houses make up 6.8% in Stilton, less than in 96% of UK towns
Households in flats make up 2.7%, against 23% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Stilton was home to 2,365 people in 1,025 households. Across Stilton, 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 27%, fewer than in just over three quarters of UK towns.
Older than 59% of UK towns: half of Stilton is over 45.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 7.9% of residents. At 9.4%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 63% of UK 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
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Stilton, 7.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 71% 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%.
Here 4.6% of adults are full-time students, where the figure across England’s towns is 7.9%. Set beside that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Shared houses: 2.9% of households are unrelated adults, more than in 74% 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.
Households average 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. The benchmark for shared households of unrelated adults across England’s towns: 4.3%. In Stilton, 27% of households have dependent children.
Households without a car or van make up 7.4% in Stilton, less than in 94% 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
Households in detached houses make up 51%, against 21% across England’s towns. For comparison, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Stilton, more than in 89% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Residents born outside the UK: 5.6% here and 18% across England’s towns. The share of residents whose main language is English across England’s towns is 90%. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%).
In Stilton, 52% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 65% 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: 93% of Stilton · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.1%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and Indian (0.6%). Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Stilton has 93%.
A lower share of adults who have never married than 68% of UK towns, at 30%
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 46 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 9.3%, from the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 33% of adults in Stilton (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 14% (England’s towns: 18%).
Stilton is younger than 2 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stilton | 2,365 | — | 45.7 | 22% | 27% |
| Yaxley | 9,403 | 2.4 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 33% |
| Sawtry | 5,870 | 3.7 mi | 43.6 | 20% | 28% |
| Farcet | 1,596 | 4.2 mi | 45.6 | 21% | 27% |
| Warmington | 1,045 | 5.2 mi | 50.7 | 27% | 26% |
| Peterborough | 190,592 | 6.2 mi | 35.9 | 13% | 35% |
| Castor and Ailsworth | 1,461 | 6.2 mi | 49.7 | 25% | 26% |
| Oundle | 6,252 | 7.6 mi | 43.8 | 23% | 24% |
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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 Stilton’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 Stilton’s residents
What is the population of Stilton?
The 2021 Census counted 2,365 people in Stilton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stilton?
The median age was 45.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stilton?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 5.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stilton?
40% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Stilton good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stilton’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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