Photo: Wayland Smith · CC BY-SA 2.053% of residents said they have no religion, a share 97% of UK towns don’t reach
2.8% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Stenalees had 796 residents in 323 households at the 2021 Census. Locally, a quarter of households are one person living alone. Lower than in 89% of UK towns: 8.5% of households have no car or van.
Stenalees is younger than 60% of UK towns: a median age of 43.2
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 45–49, with 10% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. The census found that 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Stenalees. At 17%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is lower than in just over four fifths of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 108 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Stenalees sits below 56% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (8.4%)
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Stenalees, 20% and 33%. Against that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Census figures put full-time students at 4.8% in the village.
2.5 people per household, more than in 89% 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.
5.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across England’s towns the figure is 4.3%. Households with dependent children: 28% of the total.
Households in terraced houses make up 18% in Stenalees, less than in 59% 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
On the census count, 30% of households live in a detached house. Households in terraced houses make up 24% across England’s towns.
Only 2.8% of Stenalees’s residents were born outside the UK
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
90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, against 99% in Stenalees. For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in Africa (0.4%).
36% of residents describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 97% 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: 92% of Stenalees · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Locally, 92% of residents describe themselves as White British. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
In Stenalees, 36% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 69% 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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 31. On average, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Few places have as many unpaid carers: 10% here, more than in three quarters of UK towns. Married adults and civil partners: 44%, near enough the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 18% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 18% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 20% hold no qualification (18%).
Nearby, 2 of 7 towns have older populations than Stenalees
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stenalees | 796 | — | 43.2 | 17% | 28% |
| Penwithick | 1,706 | 0.9 mi | 36.7 | 16% | 39% |
| Bugle | 2,430 | 1.3 mi | 38.4 | 16% | 30% |
| Roche | 2,311 | 2.6 mi | 43 | 21% | 28% |
| St Austell | 24,361 | 2.6 mi | 45 | 23% | 26% |
| Trewoon | 1,246 | 2.9 mi | 47 | 24% | 26% |
| Foxhole | 1,526 | 3.3 mi | 42.3 | 19% | 27% |
| Nanpean | 1,077 | 3.5 mi | 40.3 | 16% | 28% |
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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 Stenalees’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 Stenalees’s residents
What is the population of Stenalees?
The 2021 Census counted 796 people in Stenalees’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stenalees?
The median age was 43.2 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 17% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stenalees?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 2.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stenalees?
53% said they had no religion and 36% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 10% didn’t answer.
Is Stenalees good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stenalees’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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