Photo: Dave Dunstan at English Wikipedia · Public domainA lower share of one-person households than 93% of UK towns, at 23%
Households average 2.4 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. The census found that 8.3% of households have no car or van in Stithians. 3.3% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 92% of UK towns. The 2021 Census counted 1,613 residents in 672 households.
Half of Stithians is over 45.5, older than 58% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 7.7% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 23%. Residents aged 15 to 24 are more common here than in 51% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
5.1% of adults are full-time students, more than in 64% 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%.
11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, against 9.2% in Stithians. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 2.5% in Stithians, more than in 60% 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.
Households with dependent children make up 29%, close to the figure across England’s towns. The benchmark for shared households of unrelated adults across England’s towns: 4.3%.
47% of households live in a detached house, more 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
Terraced houses are home to 18% of households, against 24% across England’s towns. 3.3% of households live in a flat, less than in 92% of UK towns; 47% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Above 90% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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
4.2% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.5%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.1%).
46% of residents said they have no religion, a share 79% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Stithians · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (2.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Bangladeshi (0.2%). Residents with no religion make up 37% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 95%, more than in 74% of UK towns. By its share of residents who describe themselves as Christian (48%), Stithians is below 64% of UK towns.
Stithians ranks above 63% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 50%
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
56 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. Few places have as many unpaid carers: 10% here, more than in 77% of UK towns. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns. Set against 39% across England’s towns, 32% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Stithians.
36% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 36% of Stithians’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification (18%).
Stithians and its 7 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stithians | 1,613 | — | 45.5 | 23% | 29% |
| Lanner | 2,164 | 2.3 mi | 46.8 | 22% | 27% |
| Four Lanes | 1,579 | 2.9 mi | 41 | 19% | 31% |
| Carharrack | 1,525 | 3 mi | 47.2 | 25% | 25% |
| Perranarworthal | 1,305 | 3.1 mi | 53.4 | 33% | 23% |
| Penryn | 11,194 | 3.1 mi | 30.3 | 15% | 24% |
| St Day | 1,432 | 3.6 mi | 48.5 | 25% | 23% |
| Redruth | 15,455 | 4 mi | 42.2 | 20% | 27% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Stithians’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 Stithians’s residents
What is the population of Stithians?
The 2021 Census counted 1,613 people in Stithians’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stithians?
The median age was 45.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stithians?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 4.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stithians?
46% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Stithians good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stithians’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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