Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0St Teath is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 54.9
7.2% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. In 2021, the Census found 592 residents in St Teath, living in 280 households. The census found that nearly a fifth of households have dependent children here. At 54%, the share of households in detached houses is higher than in 92% of UK towns.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of UK towns, at 5.9%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, a third of residents are 65 or over here. As a yardstick, 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.
Fewer full-time students than 97% of UK towns: 3.2%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 8% here and 11% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
More people live alone than in 93% of UK towns: 36% of households
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 rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Against that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. At 2.1 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns.
Below 89% of UK towns: 9.9% of households live in a terraced house
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
With households in flats at 4.2%, St Teath is behind 86% of UK towns on that count. Against that, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
St Teath: 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
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, 3.2% of residents were born outside the UK here. The wider picture: nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.4%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 97% of UK towns, at 97%
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 Teath · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 49%, against 46% across England’s towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%. 42% of residents said they have no religion.
Fewer adults who have never married than 92% of UK towns: 25%
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. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 53%, more than in four fifths of UK towns. Typically, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Against a figure of 8.7% across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers in St Teath comes in at 11%.
Degree-level qualifications: 26% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 26% of its adults qualified to degree level, St Teath compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 19% hold no qualification (18%).
St Teath is older than every town around it
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 Teath | 592 | — | 54.9 | 33% | 19% |
| Delabole | 1,779 | 2 mi | 47.9 | 24% | 24% |
| Camelford | 2,983 | 3.1 mi | 42.7 | 22% | 31% |
| Egloshayle | 1,185 | 6.5 mi | 45 | 25% | 30% |
| Wadebridge | 5,626 | 6.9 mi | 50.4 | 30% | 21% |
| Rock | 1,156 | 7.9 mi | 53.9 | 36% | 20% |
| Bodmin | 16,904 | 8.6 mi | 41.3 | 20% | 28% |
| Padstow | 2,351 | 9.8 mi | 49.3 | 28% | 21% |
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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 Teath’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 Teath’s residents
What is the population of St Teath?
The 2021 Census counted 592 people in St Teath’s built-up area.
What is the average age in St Teath?
The median age was 54.9 at the 2021 Census. 5.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is St Teath?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 3.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in St Teath?
42% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 9% didn’t answer.
Is St Teath good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on St Teath’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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