Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 61.1: Mylor Bridge is older than 99% of UK towns
Where 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, Mylor Bridge has 15%. 1,534 residents in 756 households: that is Mylor Bridge at the 2021 Census. Locally, 60% of households live in a detached house. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 22% here, fewer than in 98% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Mylor Bridge’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Mylor Bridge’s residents are under 61.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 44% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
44% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: 12% of residents, 2.6 times the share across England’s towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. 6.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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 make up 4.3% in Mylor Bridge, less than in 73% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 41% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 18% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year account for 8.6%.
Mylor Bridge sits below 96% of UK towns for shared households of unrelated adults (1.3%)
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.
One-person households: 32% here and 30% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Households here average 2 people each.
Fewer households in terraced houses than 86% of UK towns: 11%
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
5.4% of households live in a flat or apartment; across England’s towns the figure is 23%. On the census count, one in ten households have no car or van. The benchmark for households in terraced houses across England’s towns: 24%.
Mylor Bridge: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 96% 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 largest groups were born in EU countries (1.7%) and in Africa (1.6%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%. Residents born outside the UK are rarer here than in nearly two thirds of UK towns.
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 84% 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: 96% of Mylor Bridge · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (2.4%), Mixed or multiple (0.4%) and Indian (0.1%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian are more common here than in 73% of UK towns. The share of residents with no religion trails 60% of UK towns: 39%.
In Mylor Bridge, 58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 95% 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 8.7% across England’s towns, 11% of residents give unpaid care here. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 53 people.
41% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 41% of adults in Mylor Bridge, 34% across England’s towns; 13% have no qualification, against 18%.
Every neighbour of Mylor Bridge has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mylor Bridge | 1,534 | — | 61.1 | 44% | 15% |
| Penryn | 11,194 | 1.9 mi | 30.3 | 15% | 24% |
| Falmouth | 24,066 | 2.3 mi | 38.6 | 21% | 21% |
| Carnon Downs and Devoran | 2,129 | 2.5 mi | 55.7 | 36% | 20% |
| Perranarworthal | 1,305 | 2.6 mi | 53.4 | 33% | 23% |
| Stithians | 1,613 | 4.4 mi | 45.5 | 23% | 29% |
| Mawnan Smith | 1,001 | 5 mi | 57.7 | 39% | 23% |
| Truro | 23,060 | 5.4 mi | 42.9 | 22% | 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 Mylor Bridge’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 Mylor Bridge’s residents
What is the population of Mylor Bridge?
The 2021 Census counted 1,534 people in Mylor Bridge’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Mylor Bridge?
The median age was 61.1 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 44% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Mylor Bridge?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Mylor Bridge?
39% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.1% didn’t answer.
Is Mylor Bridge good for families?
15% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Mylor Bridge’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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