Photo: Brian Norman · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 3.1% of households have no car or van
Across England’s towns, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment; in Cumwhinton, 2.2%. 512 residents in 227 households: that is Cumwhinton at the 2021 Census. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: nearly three fifths of the total. The village has more married adults and civil partners than 94% of UK towns, at 57%.
Only 8.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Cumwhinton
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Cumwhinton’s residents are over 47, older than in 69% of UK towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. On the census count, nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
Cumwhinton 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 make up 17%, against 11% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
25% of households have dependent children, below 71% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. One-person households account for 28%. The comparison figure for households with dependent children is 29% across England’s towns. A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4.
Cumwhinton: 54% of households live in a detached house, above 93% 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
In Cumwhinton, one in ten households live in a terraced house, beside 24% across England’s towns. 2.2% of households live in a flat, less than in 96% of UK towns; 54% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Cumwhinton: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 80% 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
Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Cumwhinton has 4.3%. Residents whose main language is English make up 90% across England’s towns.
32% of residents said they have no religion, below 89% 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: 94% of Cumwhinton · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (1.8%), Pakistani (1.2%) and Mixed or multiple (1.2%). Typically, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Cumwhinton has more residents who describe themselves as White British than nearly two thirds of UK towns, at 94%.
A lower share of adults who have never married than 84% of UK towns, at 27%
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
8 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Across the comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns: 9.3%.
40% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Cumwhinton, 40% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 11% have no qualification at all (18%).
Median age: 5 of the 7 towns around Cumwhinton 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 Cumwhinton’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 Cumwhinton’s residents
What is the population of Cumwhinton?
The 2021 Census counted 512 people in Cumwhinton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cumwhinton?
The median age was 47 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cumwhinton?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 4.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cumwhinton?
32% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.2% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Cumwhinton good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cumwhinton’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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