Photo: Michael Patterson · CC BY-SA 2.0Denby Bottles is younger than 88% of UK towns: a median age of 38.4
The share of households with dependent children is 32%, against 29% across England’s towns. Denby Bottles’s 754 households held 1,756 residents at the 2021 Census. The census found that 97% of residents describe themselves as White British locally. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 2.7%, fewer than in 95% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Denby Bottles’s people
Younger than most towns
Half of Denby Bottles’s residents are under 38.4 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 12% are 15 to 24 and 15% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
More with no religion than most
49% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 44% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
15% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 25–29: 7.7% of residents. Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 91% of UK towns. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Bakewell, the oldest of Derbyshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Denby Bottles, 6.5% of adults are full-time students, more than in 88% of UK towns
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%.
11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, against 12% in Denby Bottles. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
In Denby Bottles, 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 83% 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.
Compared with 30% across England’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone here. For comparison, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. On average, 2.4 people share a household.
Households without a car or van make up 9.3% in Denby Bottles, less than in 86% 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
Households in terraced houses: 19% here and 24% across England’s towns. The share of households in detached houses stands at 26%. Every 11th household or so has no car or van.
Residents born outside the UK: 2.4%, a lower share than 97% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (0.9%) and in Africa (0.6%). Higher than in 99% of UK towns: 100% of residents have English as their main language. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
More residents with no religion than 90% of UK towns: 49%
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: 97% of Denby Bottles · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (1.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Indian (0.4%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian are rarer here than in four fifths of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents with no religion come to 37%.
37% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 77% 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
38 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Few places have so few married adults and civil partners: 45% here, fewer than in two thirds of UK towns. Across England’s towns, adults who have never married come to 39%. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 9.4%.
31% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 31% of its adults qualified to degree level, Denby Bottles compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 13% hold no qualification (18%). A levels are as far as 21% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Denby Bottles is younger than every town around it
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 Denby Bottles’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 Denby Bottles’s residents
What is the population of Denby Bottles?
The 2021 Census counted 1,756 people in Denby Bottles’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Denby Bottles?
The median age was 38.4 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 15% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Denby Bottles?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 2.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Denby Bottles?
49% said they had no religion and 44% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Denby Bottles good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Denby Bottles’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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