Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 56.3: Calver is older than 98% of UK towns
Across England’s towns, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; in Calver, 0.2%. Adults who have never married account for 19%. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 96% of UK towns. Its 508 households held 1,073 residents at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about Calver’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Calver’s residents are under 56.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 34% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
34% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
8.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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 higher share of full-time students than 86% of UK towns, at 6.2%
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%.
Set against 11% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier in Calver. Across England’s towns, full-time students come to 7.9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Smaller households than 94% of UK towns: 2.1 people on average
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.
Locally, 30% of households are one person living alone.
A larger share of households in detached houses than 92% of UK towns: 53%
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 Calver, nearly one in ten households have no car or van, beside 24% across England’s towns. For households in detached houses, the comparison across England’s towns is 21%. Locally, 16% of households live in a terraced house. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 8.2%, fewer than in 65% of UK towns.
Calver ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 100%
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
Residents born outside the UK make up 3.5%, against 18% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.2%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 96% in Calver, more than in 90% 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: 96% of Calver · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.3%) and African (0.3%). Set beside that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. 54% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 78% of UK towns. There is little gap on residents with no religion: 37%, about the same as across England’s towns.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 64%
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
11% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 37.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 52% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Calver’s adults: 52% with a degree-level qualification and 11% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns. The highest qualification of 14% is A levels, often students still at university.
Older than Calver: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calver | 1,073 | — | 56.3 | 34% | 19% |
| Baslow | 1,172 | 1.4 mi | 56.8 | 36% | 21% |
| Bakewell | 3,275 | 4.1 mi | 58.2 | 38% | 17% |
| Hathersage | 1,861 | 4.5 mi | 54.3 | 31% | 22% |
| Tideswell | 1,554 | 5.9 mi | 51.3 | 26% | 22% |
| Bradwell | 1,368 | 6.3 mi | 53.5 | 29% | 20% |
| Holymoorside | 1,363 | 6.5 mi | 55.5 | 33% | 20% |
| Dronfield | 21,161 | 7 mi | 49.9 | 29% | 25% |
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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 Calver’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 Calver’s residents
What is the population of Calver?
The 2021 Census counted 1,073 people in Calver’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Calver?
The median age was 56.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Calver?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 3.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Calver?
37% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.2% didn’t answer.
Is Calver good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Calver’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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