Photo: Anthony Vosper · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Clampits is over 55.6
Across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 24%; Clampits has 2.2%. The village has fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns, at 0.7%. At the 2021 Census, 333 people lived here, in 138 households. The share of adults who have never married stands at 23%.
30% of Clampits is 65 or over, a higher share than 91% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 12% of residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Across Clampits, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 87 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.
3.1% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 98% 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 7.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
A smaller share of households with dependent children than 98% of UK towns: 17%
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.
Across England’s towns, 30% of households are one person living alone; in Clampits, 25%. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 2.9% here. For comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Clampits: 73% of households live in a detached house, above 99% 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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 5% of households live in a terraced house in Clampits. The comparison figure for households in detached houses is 21% across England’s towns.
In Clampits, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 97% 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). The usual figure: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents born outside the UK are scarce here: 3.9%, fewer than in nearly four fifths of UK towns.
97% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 94% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 97% of Clampits · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion tops 54% of UK towns: 42%. Here, just over half of residents describe themselves as Christian. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 73% across England’s towns, for comparison.
A larger share of unpaid carers than 97% of UK towns: 12%
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
In Clampits, 56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, beside 44% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Some 11 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
Qualified to degree level: 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
14% of Clampits’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 35% have one at degree level (34%).
Clampits is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clampits | 333 | — | 55.6 | 30% | 17% |
| Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel | 3,506 | 1.6 mi | 50.5 | 27% | 23% |
| Bere Alston | 2,259 | 2.9 mi | 52.6 | 31% | 20% |
| Callington | 4,665 | 3 mi | 50 | 26% | 21% |
| Kelly Bray | 1,137 | 3.2 mi | 44.9 | 23% | 28% |
| Tavistock | 12,676 | 5.3 mi | 51.7 | 30% | 22% |
| Landrake | 1,104 | 5.8 mi | 47.9 | 23% | 25% |
| Horrabridge | 1,875 | 6.4 mi | 51.5 | 28% | 24% |
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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 Clampits’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 Clampits’s residents
What is the population of Clampits?
The 2021 Census counted 333 people in Clampits’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Clampits?
The median age was 55.6 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Clampits?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Clampits?
42% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Clampits good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Clampits’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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