Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0A lower share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns, at 0.6%
Here 59% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 44%. 415 residents in 171 households: that is Yelling at the 2021 Census. The share of one-person households stands at 21%. On households in detached houses, Yelling sits higher than 95% of UK towns: 58%.
Older than 76% of UK towns: half of Yelling is over 48.4
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 11% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Lower than in 63% of UK towns: 9.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Across Yelling, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 4.8% in Yelling, less than in 99% 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%.
With full-time students at 4.3%, Yelling is behind 73% of UK towns on that count. On average, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Bigger households than 79% of UK towns: 2.4 people each 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.
Households with dependent children make up 28%, against 29% across England’s towns. Locally, 2.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Yelling sits below 89% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (9.9%)
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 in flats trails 82% of UK towns: 5.2%. The wider picture: 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Yelling sits above 87% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.2%), then in Africa (1.9%). For comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. 6.5% of residents were born outside the UK, against 22% across Cambridgeshire’s towns and 18% across England’s towns.
In Yelling, 44% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 70% 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 Yelling · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 46%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (3.1%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Chinese (1%). For residents with no religion, the comparison across England’s towns is 37%.
Yelling ranks below 80% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 28%
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
7.1% of residents give unpaid care (England’s towns: 8.7%). By way of comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 47%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 47% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 9.8% hold no qualification (18%).
Every neighbour of Yelling has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yelling | 415 | — | 48.4 | 22% | 28% |
| Papworth Everard | 3,821 | 1.9 mi | 38.1 | 10% | 37% |
| Great Paxton | 1,003 | 2.9 mi | 43.9 | 19% | 34% |
| Hilton | 1,052 | 3.2 mi | 47.9 | 24% | 30% |
| Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny | 1,385 | 3.2 mi | 48.4 | 23% | 25% |
| Little Paxton | 4,031 | 4.3 mi | 44 | 23% | 27% |
| Cambourne | 11,071 | 4.7 mi | 34.5 | 5.4% | 52% |
| Godmanchester | 7,714 | 4.7 mi | 40 | 17% | 31% |
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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 Yelling’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 Yelling’s residents
What is the population of Yelling?
The 2021 Census counted 415 people in Yelling’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Yelling?
The median age was 48.4 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Yelling?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 6.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Yelling?
44% said they had no religion and 46% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 8.7% didn’t answer.
Is Yelling good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Yelling’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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