Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Marhamchurch is older than 95% of UK towns: a median age of 53.8
Compared with 29% across England’s towns, just over a fifth of households have dependent children here. Census day 2021: 662 residents and 308 households in Marhamchurch. Across Marhamchurch, 2% of households live in a flat or apartment. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Below 99% of UK towns: 6.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 30% here and 18% across England’s towns. On average, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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.
Full-time students: 4.1%, a lower share than 81% of UK towns
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, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%; Marhamchurch has 13%. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
1.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 97% 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.
With one-person households at 27%, Marhamchurch is behind 72% of UK towns on that count. A household here holds 2.2 people on average. To put it in context, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
Fewer households without a car or van than 97% of UK towns: 6.3%
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
Where nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Marhamchurch has 14%. Compared with other places, households in detached houses are common here: 61%, more than in 97% of UK towns.
Marhamchurch: 100% of residents have English as their main language, above 99% 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
Residents born outside the UK: 4.4% here and 18% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.7%) and in Africa (1.1%).
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 80% 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 Marhamchurch · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 53%, against 46% across England’s towns. Locally, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns: 73%.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 61%
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
8.1% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across England’s towns. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
32% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 32% of adults in Marhamchurch, 34% across England’s towns; 16% have no qualification, against 18%.
The towns around Marhamchurch are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marhamchurch | 662 | — | 53.8 | 30% | 21% |
| Stratton | 1,928 | 1.6 mi | 40.7 | 20% | 34% |
| Bude | 7,347 | 1.6 mi | 50.5 | 30% | 22% |
| Holsworthy | 3,472 | 7.5 mi | 43.6 | 25% | 25% |
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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 Marhamchurch’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 Marhamchurch’s residents
What is the population of Marhamchurch?
The 2021 Census counted 662 people in Marhamchurch’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Marhamchurch?
The median age was 53.8 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Marhamchurch?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 4.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Marhamchurch?
39% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.4% didn’t answer.
Is Marhamchurch good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Marhamchurch’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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