Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 96% of UK towns: half of St Breward is over 54.2
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 6.8% of households have no car or van in St Breward. Fewer households with dependent children than in 93% of UK towns: 20%. Its 313 households held 702 residents at the 2021 Census. Here, 57% of households live in a detached house.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 94% of UK towns, at 32%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 11% here and 12% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
Fewer full-time students than 84% of UK towns: 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in St Breward, 29% and 22%. Residents who moved in within the year are more common here than in 61% of UK towns. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
26% of households are one person living alone, below 81% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across England’s towns: 4.2%. Across the comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The average household has 2.3 people.
11% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 87% 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
Households in flats: 5.5% here and 23% across England’s towns. Set beside that, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
A larger share of 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 the Middle East and Asia (1.4%) or in Africa (1.1%). Elsewhere, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. St Breward has fewer residents born outside the UK than 72% of UK towns, at 4.4%.
St Breward: 97% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 95% 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: 97% of St Breward · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 46% across England’s towns, 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian in St Breward. For residents who describe themselves as White British, the comparison across England’s towns is 73%. The census found that 39% of residents said they have no religion locally.
27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 86% 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
Some 22 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Typically, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. More married adults and civil partners than in 79% of UK towns: 53%. Here 9.7% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 26% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
26% of St Breward’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have none (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than St Breward
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Breward | 702 | — | 54.2 | 32% | 20% |
| Camelford | 2,983 | 4.3 mi | 42.7 | 22% | 31% |
| Delabole | 1,779 | 4.7 mi | 47.9 | 24% | 24% |
| Bodmin | 16,904 | 6.3 mi | 41.3 | 20% | 28% |
| Egloshayle | 1,185 | 6.6 mi | 45 | 25% | 30% |
| Wadebridge | 5,626 | 7.1 mi | 50.4 | 30% | 21% |
| Rock | 1,156 | 9.4 mi | 53.9 | 36% | 20% |
| Dobwalls | 1,683 | 10.3 mi | 48.5 | 25% | 24% |
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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 St Breward’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 St Breward’s residents
What is the population of St Breward?
The 2021 Census counted 702 people in St Breward’s built-up area.
What is the average age in St Breward?
The median age was 54.2 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is St Breward?
97% 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 St Breward?
39% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is St Breward good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on St Breward’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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