Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Fritchley is over 56.1, older than 97% of UK towns
Against a figure of 21% across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Fritchley comes in at 80%. The 2021 Census counted 285 residents in 128 households. Across Fritchley, 5.4% of households live in a terraced house. At 58%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 96% of UK towns.
Only 4.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Fritchley
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
33% of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). By way of comparison, 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 94 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.
Fewer full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 0.8%
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%.
In Fritchley, 45% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 14% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The share of full-time students across England’s towns is 7.9%. Residents who moved in within the year: 5% of the total.
A lower share of shared households of unrelated adults than 99% of UK towns, at 0.8%
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, Fritchley has 20%. What’s more, on one-person households, Fritchley sits lower than nearly two thirds of UK towns: 28%. Set beside that, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Households here average 2.2 people each.
Fritchley ranks below 93% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 7.7%
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 flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. To put it in context, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 95% 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
The share of residents born outside the UK is 3.9%, against 18% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.1%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%).
Fritchley sits above 96% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (97%)
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 Fritchley · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Mixed or multiple (1.1%), Other White (0.7%) and Chinese (0.7%). On residents with no religion, Fritchley sits higher than 68% of UK towns: 44%. Elsewhere, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%; Fritchley has 48%.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 99% of UK towns: 20%
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
Compared with 8.7% across England’s towns, 5.6% of residents give unpaid care here. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. For 5 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 47% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 47% of adults in Fritchley (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 9.6% (England’s towns: 18%).
Fritchley is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fritchley | 285 | — | 56.1 | 33% | 20% |
| Ambergate | 1,566 | 0.9 mi | 49.6 | 23% | 25% |
| Crich | 2,070 | 0.9 mi | 51.3 | 28% | 23% |
| Heage | 2,584 | 2 mi | 52.7 | 29% | 21% |
| South Wingfield | 1,079 | 2.5 mi | 52.2 | 28% | 20% |
| Belper | 19,076 | 3.1 mi | 47.1 | 22% | 24% |
| Ripley | 20,191 | 3.5 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 24% |
| Somercotes and Swanwick | 15,105 | 4 mi | 44.9 | 21% | 26% |
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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 Fritchley’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 Fritchley’s residents
What is the population of Fritchley?
The 2021 Census counted 285 people in Fritchley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fritchley?
The median age was 56.1 at the 2021 Census. 4.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fritchley?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fritchley?
44% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Fritchley good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fritchley’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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