Photo: Ryan Postlethwaite at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in terraced houses make up 36% in Burneside, more than in 90% of UK towns
The share of households with dependent children is 24%, against 29% across England’s towns. Few places have so few households in detached houses: 14% here, fewer than in 87% of UK towns. Burneside’s 444 households held 998 residents at the 2021 Census. Residents aged 65 and over: just over a quarter of the total.
Burneside is older than 71% of UK towns: a median age of 47.3
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 65–69: 7.9% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Burneside has more residents aged 15 to 24 than 89% of UK towns, at 11%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 87 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.
Burneside sits below 96% of UK towns for full-time students (3.3%)
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 5.5%, below 99% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 68% of UK towns
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.
32% of households are one person living alone (England’s towns: 30%). Here, 2.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
In Burneside, 15% of households live in a flat or apartment, more than in 70% 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
14% of households have no car or van, against 24% across England’s towns. Households in flats make up 23% across England’s towns.
In Burneside, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 86% 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 EU countries (2.7%) and in Africa (1.5%). Compared with other places, residents born outside the UK are scarce here: 6%, fewer than in 53% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
In Burneside, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 74% 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: 95% of Burneside · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (3%), African (1.1%) and Mixed or multiple (0.8%). 52% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 64% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Asked about religion, 39% answered none, against 37% across England’s towns.
In Burneside, 47% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, fewer than in 56% 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
Across Burneside, a third of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Fewer unpaid carers than in 53% of UK towns: 9.2%. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 28% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 28% of Burneside’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 20% have no qualification (18%).
Burneside sits below 5 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burneside | 998 | — | 47.3 | 26% | 24% |
| Kendal | 28,939 | 2.2 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 23% |
| Staveley | 1,466 | 2.7 mi | 48.4 | 28% | 21% |
| Windermere | 4,819 | 5.8 mi | 51 | 26% | 20% |
| Levens | 1,020 | 6 mi | 52.7 | 31% | 22% |
| Bowness-on-Windermere | 2,290 | 6.1 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 18% |
| Milnthorpe | 1,871 | 8.7 mi | 45.9 | 25% | 26% |
| Ambleside | 2,624 | 9.6 mi | 48.5 | 25% | 15% |
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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 Burneside’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 Burneside’s residents
What is the population of Burneside?
The 2021 Census counted 998 people in Burneside’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Burneside?
The median age was 47.3 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Burneside?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Burneside?
39% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 8.5% didn’t answer.
Is Burneside good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Burneside’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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