Photo: Rose and Trev Clough · CC BY-SA 2.097% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 98% of UK towns
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Blackwell had 298 residents and 137 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 46.7. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 8.5%. By its share of households in flats (18%), Blackwell is above nearly four fifths of UK towns.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 26% in Blackwell, more than in 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Blackwell’s residents are over 46.7, older than in 66% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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 smaller share of full-time students than 63% of UK towns: 4.6%
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%.
10% of residents lived at another address a year before the Census, against 11% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%.
Smaller households than 79% of UK towns: 2.2 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cumbria’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
A third of households are one person living alone; across England’s towns the figure is 30%. The share of households with dependent children stands at 25%.
A village of terraces: 31% of households live in one
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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Blackwell comes in at 18%. Here, 28% of households live in a detached house.
In Blackwell, 0.7% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 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
The figure for residents whose main language is English is 100% in Blackwell and 90% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 77% of UK towns: 54%
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 Blackwell · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
On religion, 44% answered “no religion” and 54% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns.
Blackwell ranks below 64% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 46%
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
Some 9 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. At 8.5%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 74% of UK towns. The share of married adults and civil partners across England’s towns is 44%. Adults who have never married: 32% here and 39% across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 23%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 23% of Blackwell’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 27% have no qualification (18%).
Blackwell and its 7 nearest towns: 6 of them are older
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
- “Cumbria’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cumbria (or England), summed the same way as Blackwell’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 Blackwell’s residents
What is the population of Blackwell?
The 2021 Census counted 298 people in Blackwell’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Blackwell?
The median age was 46.7 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Blackwell?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 0.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Blackwell?
44% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 1.7% didn’t answer.
Is Blackwell good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Blackwell’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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