Photo: Paul Dixon from swadlincote, England · CC BY-SA 2.0Foremark is younger than 94% of UK towns: a median age of 36.1
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 64%, against 46% across England’s towns. Census figures put households without a car or van at 1.5% in Foremark. 14% of households are one person living alone, a lower share than in 99% of UK towns. There were 66 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 227 residents.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 13% in Foremark, less than in 94% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Foremark has 11%. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 119 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Foremark sits above 93% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (13%)
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%.
Full-time students make up 6.6%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.6 people per household, more than in 97% 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.
Where 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, Foremark has 30%. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Below 98% of UK towns: 1.5% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Across England’s towns, 21% of households live in a detached house; in Foremark, 43%. At 12%, the share of households in terraced houses is lower than in 83% of UK towns. The wider picture: nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents born outside the UK than 76% of UK towns: 11%
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
95% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns.
Foremark sits below 95% of UK towns for residents with no religion (29%)
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: 87% of Foremark · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White British, the largest groups are African (4%), Other White (3.5%) and Chinese (3.1%). Across England’s towns, residents with no religion come to 37%. 87% of residents describe themselves as White British, a lower share than in 73% of UK towns.
Fewer unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns: 3.7%
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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 1. At 63%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 99% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%. Just over a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; across England’s towns the figure is 39%.
50% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Foremark, 50% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 15% have no qualification at all (18%). For 18%, A levels are the highest qualification so far, many of them students still working towards a degree.
No nearby town is as young as Foremark
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foremark | 227 | — | 36.1 | 13% | 30% |
| Repton | 2,766 | 1.9 mi | 39.9 | 18% | 31% |
| Willington | 2,717 | 2.6 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 27% |
| Findern | 1,608 | 3.1 mi | 52.2 | 31% | 22% |
| Melbourne | 4,860 | 3.3 mi | 46.7 | 24% | 26% |
| Woodville | 7,255 | 4.7 mi | 36.6 | 12% | 33% |
| Swadlincote | 34,569 | 4.8 mi | 41.7 | 18% | 28% |
| Stretton | 4,646 | 4.9 mi | 49.1 | 26% | 24% |
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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 Foremark’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 Foremark’s residents
What is the population of Foremark?
The 2021 Census counted 227 people in Foremark’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Foremark?
The median age was 36.1 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 13% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Foremark?
87% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Foremark?
29% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.5% didn’t answer.
Is Foremark good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Foremark’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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