Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 53.5: Hugh Town is older than 94% of UK towns
Nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, against 39% in Hugh Town. At the 2021 Census, 950 people lived here, in 464 households. Here, 16% of households have dependent children. Few places have as many households without a car or van: 45% here, more than in 99% of UK towns.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 6.5% in Hugh Town, less than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9.5% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. More residents aged 65 and over than in 94% of UK towns: 32%. As a yardstick, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Hugh Town ranks below 99% of UK towns on full-time students: 1.5%
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%.
By class, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 22% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Across Hugh Town, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%.
More people live alone than in 96% of UK towns: 38% of households
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 6.5%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. The benchmark for one-person households across England’s towns: 30%. Each household has 2 people on average.
Only 25% of households live in a detached house in Hugh Town
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
Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%; Hugh Town has 17%. Add to that, 39% of households live in a flat, more than in 98% of UK towns; 25% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Only 3.9% of Hugh Town’s residents were born outside the UK
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 EU countries (2%) and in Africa (0.6%). 99% of residents have English as their main language, a higher share than in 80% of UK towns. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%.
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 95% in Hugh Town, more than in 71% of UK towns
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 Hugh Town · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%; Hugh Town has 49%. To put it in context, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The share of residents with no religion stands at 44%.
Adults who have never married: 27%, a lower share than 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
Against a figure of 8.7% across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers in Hugh Town comes in at 10%. Across Hugh Town, 51% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Adults who have never married: 39% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 36%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Hugh Town’s adults: 36% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
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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 Hugh Town’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 Hugh Town’s residents
What is the population of Hugh Town?
The 2021 Census counted 950 people in Hugh Town’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hugh Town?
The median age was 53.5 at the 2021 Census. 6.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hugh Town?
95% 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 Hugh Town?
44% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Hugh Town good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hugh Town’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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