Photo: Bill Boaden · CC BY-SA 2.0Residents aged 15 to 24: 7.6%, a lower share than 96% of UK towns
By its share of households in terraced houses (31%), Crowlas is above 85% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British account for 95%. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 78% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 1,054 people lived here, in 484 households.
Older than 83% of UK towns: half of Crowlas is over 49.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 28%, against 18% across England’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 70–74, with 8.5% of residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Only 3.3% of adults are full-time students in Crowlas
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for nearly a quarter of Crowlas’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 28%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 8.1% locally.
Smaller households than 77% of UK towns: 2.2 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.
Where 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, Crowlas has 3.1%. On the census count, 31% of households are one person living alone.
A higher share of households in detached houses than 63% of UK towns, at 34%
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, 13% of households have no car or van in Crowlas. Still, nearly one in ten households live in a flat, less than in 61% of UK towns; 34% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 70% of UK towns, at 4.6%
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%. Higher than in 72% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language.
Above 62% of UK towns: 51% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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: 95% of Crowlas · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Bangladeshi (0.1%). Crowlas has fewer residents with no religion than 54% of UK towns, at 40%. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%.
Crowlas: 11% of residents give unpaid care, above 85% 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
Married adults and civil partners: 47% here and 44% across England’s towns. The benchmark for unpaid carers across England’s towns: 8.7%. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 36. Adults who have never married are more common here than in 53% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 25% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Crowlas’s adults: 25% with a degree-level qualification and 18% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Older than Crowlas: 3 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowlas | 1,054 | — | 49.7 | 28% | 24% |
| Marazion | 1,350 | 1.6 mi | 52 | 31% | 20% |
| Goldsithney | 1,346 | 2.3 mi | 47 | 26% | 27% |
| Longrock | 1,983 | 2.4 mi | 53.3 | 32% | 20% |
| St Erth | 1,128 | 2.5 mi | 46.4 | 23% | 29% |
| Carbis Bay | 3,967 | 3.4 mi | 53.3 | 32% | 21% |
| Penzance | 14,957 | 3.4 mi | 49.2 | 27% | 20% |
| Hayle | 9,040 | 4.2 mi | 45.7 | 24% | 26% |
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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 Crowlas’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 Crowlas’s residents
What is the population of Crowlas?
The 2021 Census counted 1,054 people in Crowlas’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Crowlas?
The median age was 49.7 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Crowlas?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Crowlas?
40% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 6.9% didn’t answer.
Is Crowlas good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Crowlas’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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