Photo: Andrew Duffell · CC BY 1.0A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 98% of UK towns: 1.2%
The share of households in terraced houses is 12%, against 24% across England’s towns. Egglescliffe is home to 10,250 residents in 4,393 households, by the 2021 Census. Adults who have never married account for 28%. Few places have so few households in flats: 7.6% here, fewer than in 68% of UK towns.
Egglescliffe’s population changed by +11% since 2011, more than in 63% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Egglescliffe’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 9,900 people in 2011; 11,000 in 2024.
Of the age groups, 65 and over changed most (+35%) and 16 to 29 least (−1%). The biggest one-year rise was mid-2023 to mid-2024, 280 people.
Half of Egglescliffe is over 46, older than 61% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 23%, against 18% across England’s towns. Across Egglescliffe, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Egglescliffe, 46. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Egglescliffe, 6.3% of adults are full-time students, more than in 87% 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%.
Compared with 11% across England’s towns, 8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here. For comparison, 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.
2.3 people per household, more than in 64% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against County Durham’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households with dependent children: 28% here and 29% across England’s towns. One-person households are rarer here than in 59% of UK towns.
Households without a car or van make up 13% in Egglescliffe, less than in 67% 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
Across England’s towns, 21% of households live in a detached house; in Egglescliffe, 33%. By contrast, every 8th household or so has no car or van.
6% of residents were born outside the UK, below 54% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Middle East and Asia (2%). Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 53% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
54% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 75% 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 Egglescliffe · County Durham’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
1.8% of residents are Muslim. Egglescliffe has fewer residents with no religion than nearly two thirds of UK towns, at 38%. As a reference point, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Where 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, Egglescliffe has 92%.
Egglescliffe ranks above 83% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 54%
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
By its share of unpaid carers (9.7%), Egglescliffe is above just over three fifths of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 300 people.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 40%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 40% of adults in Egglescliffe, 34% across England’s towns; 13% have no qualification, against 18%. 17% have A levels as their highest qualification, many of them still studying for a degree.
Ranked by age, 160th oldest of 455 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Stoke Gifford is the youngest (27.8); Seaton the oldest (61). Nearest to Egglescliffe in age: Blandford Forum (45.8), Pocklington (45.9), Marlborough (46) and Horbury (46.1).
Egglescliffe and its 7 nearest towns: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egglescliffe | 10,250 | — | 46 | 23% | 28% |
| Ingleby Barwick | 23,380 | 1.5 mi | 38.2 | 11% | 43% |
| Yarm | 9,601 | 1.8 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 26% |
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 23,352 | 2.7 mi | 39.5 | 19% | 28% |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 84,824 | 3.5 mi | 40.6 | 19% | 28% |
| Stainton | 1,817 | 3.8 mi | 48.8 | 27% | 21% |
| Middleton St George | 4,756 | 4.4 mi | 46 | 22% | 28% |
| Middlesbrough | 148,232 | 5.6 mi | 37.5 | 17% | 30% |
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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.
- “County Durham’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in County Durham (or England), summed the same way as Egglescliffe’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Egglescliffe’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 10,307 people in 2021, against 10,250 in the built-up area.
- 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 Egglescliffe’s residents
What is the population of Egglescliffe?
The 2021 Census counted 10,250 people in Egglescliffe’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 11,000 people in mid-2024, 11% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Egglescliffe?
The median age was 46 at the 2021 Census, older than 61% of UK towns. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Egglescliffe?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across County Durham’s towns. 6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Egglescliffe?
38% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.8% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Egglescliffe good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Egglescliffe’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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