Photo: John Sutton · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Thriplow is over 53.8, older than 95% of UK towns
2.1% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). Across Thriplow, nearly two thirds of households live in a detached house. One-person households are rarer here than in 91% of UK towns. The village’s 199 households held 462 residents at the 2021 Census.
Residents aged 65 and over: 28%, a higher share than 85% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, against 10% in Thriplow. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 88% of UK towns: 3.9%
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Thriplow, 51% and 13%. Nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, a lower share than in 62% of UK towns. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households with dependent children: 23%, a lower share than 85% 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.
Where 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, Thriplow has 3%. Households here average 2.4 people each. Measured more widely, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
A lower share of households in flats than 98% of UK towns, at 1.5%
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
The share of households without a car or van trails 93% of UK towns: 7.6%. For comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 11% in Thriplow, 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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (6.5%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.2%). Residents born outside the UK: 18% across England’s towns, for comparison. Against a figure of 90% across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English in Thriplow comes in at 98%.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 59% in Thriplow, more than in 93% 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 Thriplow · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (8.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and African (0.9%). The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%. A third of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 88% of UK towns. In Thriplow, nearly nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British, beside 73% across England’s towns.
Thriplow ranks above 99% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 64%
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
Thriplow sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 8.7%, about the same as across England’s towns. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Adults who have never married: 21% of the total.
Qualified to degree level: 51% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 51% of adults in Thriplow, 34% across England’s towns; 10% have no qualification, against 18%.
No nearby town is as old as Thriplow
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thriplow | 462 | — | 53.8 | 28% | 23% |
| Fowlmere | 1,295 | 1.1 mi | 48.9 | 25% | 31% |
| Foxton | 1,275 | 1.9 mi | 47.1 | 24% | 29% |
| Whittlesford | 1,608 | 2.1 mi | 48 | 24% | 29% |
| Duxford | 2,216 | 2.4 mi | 44.3 | 21% | 31% |
| Harston | 1,827 | 3.1 mi | 47 | 22% | 32% |
| Barrington | 1,184 | 3.3 mi | 48.7 | 23% | 27% |
| Hauxton | 1,322 | 3.4 mi | 41.3 | 19% | 30% |
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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 Thriplow’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 Thriplow’s residents
What is the population of Thriplow?
The 2021 Census counted 462 people in Thriplow’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Thriplow?
The median age was 53.8 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Thriplow?
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 Thriplow?
33% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Thriplow good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Thriplow’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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