Photo: Bobo12345 · Public domainA median age of 59.6: Cawsand and Kingsand is older than 99% of UK towns
Households with dependent children: 15% here and 29% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Cawsand and Kingsand’s population at 572, in 285 households. Census figures put adults who have never married at 22% here. At 39%, the share of households in terraced houses is higher than in 94% of UK towns.
Cawsand and Kingsand sits above 99% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (40%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 75–79, with 11% of residents, 3 times the share across England’s towns. At 7.3%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 98% of UK towns. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Full-time students: 2.9%, a lower share than 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%.
7.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier; across England’s towns the figure is 11%. Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%.
2 people per household, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cornwall’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
With shared households of unrelated adults at 3.2%, Cawsand and Kingsand is ahead of 80% of UK towns on that count. On one-person households, Cawsand and Kingsand sits higher than 86% of UK towns: 35%.
Households in detached houses: 18%, a lower share than 78% 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
Nearly a fifth of households have no car or van, against 24% across England’s towns. On average, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. For Cawsand and Kingsand, the census puts households in flats at 12%.
Cawsand and Kingsand: 7.9% of residents were born outside the UK, above 63% 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
98% of residents have English as their main language; across England’s towns the figure is 90%. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.9%). On average, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 52%, a higher share than 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: 91% of Cawsand and Kingsand · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 91%, against 73% across England’s towns. Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.8%), Mixed or multiple (2.6%) and Chinese (0.4%). The wider picture: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Cawsand and Kingsand: 56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 91% of UK towns
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
8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 11% in Cawsand and Kingsand. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 18 people. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
38% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Cawsand and Kingsand’s adults: 38% with a degree-level qualification and 13% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Cawsand and Kingsand
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
- “Cornwall’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cornwall (or England), summed the same way as Cawsand and Kingsand’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 Cawsand and Kingsand’s residents
What is the population of Cawsand and Kingsand?
The 2021 Census counted 572 people in Cawsand and Kingsand’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cawsand and Kingsand?
The median age was 59.6 at the 2021 Census. 7.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 40% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cawsand and Kingsand?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 7.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cawsand and Kingsand?
40% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Cawsand and Kingsand good for families?
15% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cawsand and Kingsand’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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