Photo: roger geach · CC BY-SA 2.07.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Households with dependent children are rarer here than in just over four fifths of UK towns. Dobwalls’s 762 households held 1,683 residents at the 2021 Census. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British stands at 98%. 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, against 39% across England’s towns.
Half of Dobwalls is over 48.5, older than 77% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. Here, a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 3%
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Dobwalls, 26% and 31%. Few places have so few residents who moved in within the year: 7.1% here, fewer than in 83% of UK towns. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Dobwalls households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 74% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. The share of one-person households stands at 31%.
In Dobwalls, 5.5% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 81% 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
14% of households have no car or van, against 24% across England’s towns. Across Dobwalls, 16% of households live in a terraced house. Higher than in 54% of UK towns: 31% of households live in a detached house. The wider picture: 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 97% of UK towns, at 2.3%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.6%) and in EU countries (0.5%). Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. More residents whose main language is English than in 99% of UK towns: 100%.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 75% of UK towns: 45%
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: 98% of Dobwalls · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
48% of residents describe themselves as Christian; across England’s towns the figure is 46%. The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 37% across England’s towns.
Dobwalls sits above 66% of UK towns for unpaid carers (10%)
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
Nearly half of adults are married or in a civil partnership (England’s towns: 44%). On average, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 23% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
23% of Dobwalls’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 20% have none (18%).
A younger town than 5 of the 7 around it: Dobwalls
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Dobwalls’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 Dobwalls’s residents
What is the population of Dobwalls?
The 2021 Census counted 1,683 people in Dobwalls’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dobwalls?
The median age was 48.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dobwalls?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 2.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dobwalls?
45% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Dobwalls good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dobwalls’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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