Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in flats: 1.5%, a lower share than 98% of UK towns
Unpaid carers make up 12%, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in 99% of UK towns. There were 270 households in Burgh by Sands at the 2021 Census, home to 637 residents. Households in terraced houses account for 9.9%.
Burgh by Sands is older than 84% of UK towns: a median age of 50
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 24%, above 69% of UK towns. In Grange-over-Sands, the oldest of Cumbria’s towns by this measure, it is 47%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
In Burgh by Sands, 13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 95% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Burgh by Sands has 40% and 17%. Set beside that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. The share of full-time students stands at 5.4%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 24% of households in Burgh by Sands have dependent children
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.
Households average 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. On the census count, 26% of households are one person living alone. Few places have as many shared households of unrelated adults: 2.6% here, more than in 62% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children.
54% of households live in a detached house, a share 93% of UK towns don’t reach
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, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van; in Burgh by Sands, 7.8%. The share of households in detached houses across England’s towns is 21%.
0.9% 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 largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.5%) and in Africa (0.3%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%. The figure for residents whose main language is English is 100% in Burgh by Sands and 90% across England’s towns.
58% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 91% 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: 99% of Burgh by Sands · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Just over a third of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%.
Married adults and civil partners: 60%, a higher share than 98% 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
25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; across England’s towns the figure is 39%. Set beside that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 17 residents.
Degree-level qualifications reach 39% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 39% of Burgh by Sands’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Burgh by Sands
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
- 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.
- “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 Burgh by Sands’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 Burgh by Sands’s residents
What is the population of Burgh by Sands?
The 2021 Census counted 637 people in Burgh by Sands’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Burgh by Sands?
The median age was 50 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Burgh by Sands?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 0.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Burgh by Sands?
35% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Burgh by Sands good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Burgh by Sands’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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