Village Cross · Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.4%, a lower share than 95% of UK towns
Married people and civil partners make up 56% of adults, against 44% across England’s towns. There were 1,220 households in Barlborough at the 2021 Census, home to 2,859 residents. On the census count, nearly one in ten households live in a terraced house. Fewer households in flats than in 91% of UK towns: 3.4%.
Barlborough changed by +2% from 2011 to 2024, slower than 77% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Barlborough’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 3,300 people in 2011; 3,300 in 2024.
In one year, mid-2023 to mid-2024, the population rose by 90, the most of any year. Change by age ran from +47% for the 16 to 29 to −27% for the 0 to 15.
Half of Barlborough is over 47.6, older than 72% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. On the census count, just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Barlborough, 47.6. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Barlborough ranks below 71% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 7.7%
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%.
40% of Barlborough’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 20% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across England’s towns is 11%. On the census count, 5.3% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
25% of households are one person living alone, below 87% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Derbyshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Typically, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Here, 27% of households have dependent children.
52% of households live in a detached house, more than in 91% 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
Where 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns, Barlborough has 11%. 3.4% of households live in a flat, less than in 91% of UK towns; 52% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born outside the UK than 64% of UK towns: 5%
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
13% of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later, against 21% across England’s towns. Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns. In Barlborough, 98% of residents have English as their main language.
Barlborough: 55% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 82% 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 Barlborough · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion trails nearly four fifths of UK towns: 36%. Against that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.3%), Indian (2.1%) and Mixed or multiple (1.1%).
Fewer adults who have never married than 81% of UK towns: 28%
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
For Barlborough, the census puts unpaid carers at 9%. Elsewhere, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of Barlborough’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 16% have no qualification (18%).
231st highest median age among 514 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Keele is the youngest (20.6); West Chiltington the oldest (63.1). Nearest to Barlborough in age: Drybrook (47.5), Crowle (47.6), Barlestone (47.6) and Astwood Bank (47.6).
Barlborough is younger than 2 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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.
- “Derbyshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Derbyshire (or England), summed the same way as Barlborough’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. Barlborough’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 3,143 people in 2021, against 2,859 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 Barlborough’s residents
What is the population of Barlborough?
The 2021 Census counted 2,859 people in Barlborough’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 3,300 people in mid-2024, 2% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Barlborough?
The median age was 47.6 at the 2021 Census, older than 72% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Barlborough?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Barlborough?
36% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Barlborough good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Barlborough’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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