Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.01.1% of households live in a flat or apartment, below 99% of UK towns
The figure for married adults and civil partners is 38% in Madron and 44% across England’s towns. Residents with no religion are more common here than in 94% of UK towns. Its 283 households held 664 residents at the 2021 Census. In Madron, 21% of households have no car or van.
In Madron, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 91% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, 18% of residents are 65 or over; in Madron, 21%. Meanwhile, half of the village’s residents are over 44.5, older than in half of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 99% of UK towns: 5.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Madron has 20% and 35%. More full-time students than in 93% of UK towns: 7.6%. Residents who moved in within the year: 11% across England’s towns, for comparison.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Larger households than 72% of UK towns: 2.4 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.
Madron sits close to the norm on households with dependent children: 29%, about the same as across England’s towns. On shared households of unrelated adults, Madron sits higher than 71% of UK towns: 2.8%. Census figures put one-person households at 30% locally.
38% of households live in a terraced house, more than in 93% 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
At 21%, households in detached houses sit close to the figure across England’s towns. Households in terraced houses make up 24% across England’s towns.
2.7% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 94% 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 figure for residents whose main language is English is 99% in Madron and 90% across England’s towns. For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in Africa (0.6%).
42% describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 88% 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: 93% of Madron · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 73% across England’s towns, 93% of residents describe themselves as White British in Madron. Against that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Madron: 40% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, above 90% 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
23 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Against that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Madron has fewer unpaid carers than 71% of UK towns, at 8.6%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 26%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 26% of adults in Madron, 34% across England’s towns; 25% have no qualification, against 18%. A levels are the highest qualification of 16%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Every neighbour of Madron has an older population
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
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Madron’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 Madron’s residents
What is the population of Madron?
The 2021 Census counted 664 people in Madron’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Madron?
The median age was 44.5 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Madron?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 2.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Madron?
50% said they had no religion and 42% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Madron good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Madron’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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