Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe · CC BY-SA 2.0Grindleford is older than 94% of UK towns: a median age of 53.4
Against a figure of 39% across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married in Grindleford comes in at 24%. The census found that 45% of residents said they have no religion in the village. Compared with other places, households with dependent children are scarce here: 23%, fewer than in 87% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Grindleford was home to 882 people in 397 households.
Below 99% of UK towns: 6.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
29% of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. On average, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Grindleford sits above 73% of UK towns for full-time students (5.4%)
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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Grindleford has 54% and 10%. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 7.6% locally.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Grindleford sits below 90% of UK towns for one-person households (24%)
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 2%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. A household here holds 2.2 people on average.
Grindleford ranks below 86% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 9.2%
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, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%; Grindleford has 23%. 38% of households live in a detached house. Every 11th household or so has no car or van.
Only 3.4% of Grindleford’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.6%). Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 82% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 48%, a lower share than 64% 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: 93% of Grindleford · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (4%), Mixed or multiple (2%) and Pakistani (0.7%). Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as White British: 93% here, more than in 55% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
60% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 98% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Some 18 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. More unpaid carers than in 55% of UK towns: 9.5%. By way of comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 55%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Grindleford counts 55% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 8.6% have no qualification (18%).
Grindleford sits below 5 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Grindleford’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 Grindleford’s residents
What is the population of Grindleford?
The 2021 Census counted 882 people in Grindleford’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Grindleford?
The median age was 53.4 at the 2021 Census. 6.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Grindleford?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Grindleford?
45% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Grindleford good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Grindleford’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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