Photo: Robert Ashby · CC BY-SA 2.0In Chacewater, 12% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 95% of UK towns
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 42%, below 88% of UK towns. Higher than in 76% of UK towns: 33% of households are one person living alone. Chacewater’s 402 households held 910 residents at the 2021 Census. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 4.2% here.
Chacewater is older than 55% of UK towns: a median age of 45.2
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, 21% of residents are 65 or over here. Across Chacewater, 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
More students than 91% of UK towns: 7% of adults in Chacewater
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 10% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Smaller households than 58% of UK towns: 2.3 people on average
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.
Set against 29% across England’s towns, 27% of households have dependent children in Chacewater.
Households in flats: 13%, a higher share than 60% 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 terraced houses: 23% here and 24% across England’s towns. Here, 30% of households live in a detached house. More households without a car or van than in just over half of UK towns: 16%.
98% of residents have English as their main language, a share 61% of UK towns don’t reach
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 (3.3%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.1%). As a reference point, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Chacewater has fewer residents born outside the UK than 54% of UK towns, at 5.9%.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 89% of UK towns: 48%
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: 92% of Chacewater · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (4.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and Bangladeshi (0.2%). The benchmark for residents with no religion across England’s towns: 37%. At 92%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is lower than in 51% of UK towns.
More adults who have never married than 61% of UK towns: 34%
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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 33. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns. 47% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, fewer than in 53% of UK towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 35% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 16% hold no qualification (18%). A levels are the highest qualification of 19%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Chacewater is younger than 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chacewater | 910 | — | 45.2 | 21% | 27% |
| St Day | 1,432 | 1.8 mi | 48.5 | 25% | 23% |
| Threemilestone | 2,854 | 2 mi | 45.6 | 24% | 24% |
| Carharrack | 1,525 | 2.1 mi | 47.2 | 25% | 25% |
| Mount Hawke | 1,593 | 2.8 mi | 47.5 | 25% | 22% |
| Lanner | 2,164 | 3.4 mi | 46.8 | 22% | 27% |
| Redruth | 15,455 | 3.4 mi | 42.2 | 20% | 27% |
| Perranarworthal | 1,305 | 3.5 mi | 53.4 | 33% | 23% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Chacewater’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 Chacewater’s residents
What is the population of Chacewater?
The 2021 Census counted 910 people in Chacewater’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Chacewater?
The median age was 45.2 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Chacewater?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Chacewater?
48% said they had no religion and 42% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 8.7% didn’t answer.
Is Chacewater good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Chacewater’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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