Photo: Mike Bardill · CC BY-SA 2.0Households without a car or van make up 6.3% in Brailsford, less than in 97% of UK towns
Compared with 37% across England’s towns, 31% of residents said they have no religion here. Brailsford counted 1,403 residents and 633 households at the 2021 Census. 59% of households live in a detached house. On married adults and civil partners, Brailsford sits higher than 91% of UK towns: 56%.
What the Census says about Brailsford’s people
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14% of residents gave a different address a year before the 2021 Census, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Students & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 90% of UK towns: 8.2%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 26% here and 18% across England’s towns. With a median age of 48.9, Brailsford is older than nearly four fifths of UK towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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 91% of UK towns: 3.7%
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%.
14% of residents lived at another address a year before the Census, against 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
24% of households have dependent children, below 78% 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.
1.9% of households are unrelated adults living together, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Add to that, on one-person households, Brailsford sits lower than nearly three quarters of UK towns: 27%. Across the comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. There are 2.2 people in the average household.
In Brailsford, 3.5% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 90% 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
13% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. On average, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
3.7% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 82% 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.9%). More residents whose main language is English than in 89% of UK towns: 99%. Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns.
Above 98% of UK towns: 64% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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: 96% of Brailsford · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Brailsford has 96%. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%. Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.4%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Indian (0.4%).
25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 92% 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
Here one in ten residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%. 29 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. The benchmark for adults who have never married across England’s towns: 39%.
46% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 46% of adults in Brailsford, 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification, against 18%.
Median age: 3 of the 7 towns around Brailsford 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
- “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 Brailsford’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 Brailsford’s residents
What is the population of Brailsford?
The 2021 Census counted 1,403 people in Brailsford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brailsford?
The median age was 48.9 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brailsford?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brailsford?
31% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Brailsford good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Brailsford’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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