Photo: Jon Alexander · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of households without a car or van than 94% of UK towns: 7.3%
Across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children is 29%; Grampound has 23%. The village’s 306 households held 687 residents at the 2021 Census. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as White British at 96% here. With a median age of 50.2, Grampound is older than 86% of UK towns.
25% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 72% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With residents aged 15 to 24 at 9.1%, Grampound is behind 71% of UK towns on that count. Typically, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
A lower share of full-time students than 84% of UK towns, at 4%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 12% here and 11% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Grampound: 3.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, above 83% 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.
At 29%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 58% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. A household here holds 2.3 people on average.
Fewer flats than 86% of UK towns: 4.3% of households
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
The share of households in detached houses is 44%, against 21% across England’s towns. Just over a fifth of households live in a terraced house. Against that, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns: 100%
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 (1.3%) or in Africa (1.3%). For residents whose main language is English, the comparison across England’s towns is 90%. 4.7% of residents were born outside the UK, a lower share than in 68% of UK towns.
More residents with no religion than 83% of UK towns: 46%
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: 96% of Grampound · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Caribbean (0.4%). At 47%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is lower than in 69% of UK towns. The share of residents with no religion across England’s towns is 37%.
Married adults and civil partners: 50%, a higher share than 63% 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
Compared with 39% across England’s towns, 31% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Census figures put unpaid carers at 8.2% in Grampound.
A degree-level qualification for 39% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Grampound, 39% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 12% have no qualification at all (18%).
Grampound is younger than 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grampound | 687 | — | 50.2 | 25% | 23% |
| Grampound Road | 1,160 | 1.9 mi | 37.2 | 11% | 37% |
| Probus | 2,565 | 2.2 mi | 47.1 | 23% | 25% |
| St Stephen | 2,339 | 3.3 mi | 44.3 | 21% | 32% |
| Polgooth | 1,096 | 3.8 mi | 57.2 | 38% | 19% |
| Trewoon | 1,246 | 4.5 mi | 47 | 24% | 26% |
| Foxhole | 1,526 | 4.5 mi | 42.3 | 19% | 27% |
| Nanpean | 1,077 | 5 mi | 40.3 | 16% | 28% |
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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 Grampound’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 Grampound’s residents
What is the population of Grampound?
The 2021 Census counted 687 people in Grampound’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Grampound?
The median age was 50.2 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Grampound?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 4.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Grampound?
46% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is Grampound good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Grampound’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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