Photo: Original uploader was Mammal4 at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0A median age of 54: St Buryan is older than 95% of UK towns
27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; across England’s towns the figure is 39%. The 2021 Census counted 653 residents in 291 households. Locally, 0.7% of households live in a flat or apartment. At 22%, the share of households with dependent children is lower than in 88% of UK towns.
7.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 91% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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.
A lower share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns, at 2.6%
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; St Buryan has 30% and 23%. The share of full-time students across England’s towns is 7.9%. Residents who moved in within the year account for 6.8%.
Smaller households than 73% of UK towns: 2.2 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.
Against a figure of 30% across England’s towns, the share of one-person households in St Buryan comes in at 31%. On the census count, 2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
A larger share of households in detached houses than 74% of UK towns: 39%
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
12% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Locally, 25% of households live in a terraced house. Across the comparison, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 93% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK; in St Buryan, 3.7%. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). Measured more widely, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 80% of UK towns: 95%
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 St Buryan · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, against 36% in St Buryan. Still, at 54%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is higher than in 75% of UK towns. Set beside that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (1.7%), Mixed or multiple (0.3%) and Caribbean (0.2%).
Unpaid carers make up 12% in St Buryan, more than in 97% 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
27% of St Buryan’s adults have never married or formed a civil partnership and 53% are married, against 39% and 44% across England’s towns. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 23. As a yardstick, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 32%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 32% of its adults qualified to degree level, St Buryan compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 17% hold no qualification (18%).
No nearby town is as old as St Buryan
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
- “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 Buryan’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 Buryan’s residents
What is the population of St Buryan?
The 2021 Census counted 653 people in St Buryan’s built-up area.
What is the average age in St Buryan?
The median age was 54 at the 2021 Census. 7.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is St Buryan?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in St Buryan?
36% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is St Buryan good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on St Buryan’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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