Tutbury Crossing Signal Box · Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 97% of UK towns: 1.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
Households in flats make up 3.7%, against 23% across England’s towns. Residents with no religion account for 44%. Compared with other places, households without a car or van are scarce here: 13%, fewer than in just over three fifths of UK towns. Hatton counted 2,560 residents and 1,163 households at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about Hatton’s people
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Hatton at 2,600 in 2011 and 3,100 in 2024, up 20%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 86% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Growth of +20% since 2011 puts Hatton ahead of 86% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Hatton’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 2,600 people in 2011; 3,100 in 2024.
By age, the 65 and over group changed most (+51%) and the 30 to 44 group least (+4%). The biggest one-year rise was mid-2022 to mid-2023, 210 people.
20% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 63% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with nearly one in ten residents. With a median age of 44.1, Hatton is younger than 53% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 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%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Hatton, 44.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Hatton sits below 83% of UK towns for full-time students (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%.
By class, 28% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 31% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 8.6% in Hatton.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 73% 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.
One-person households make up 31%, against 30% across England’s towns. For Hatton, the census puts households with dependent children at 26%.
In Hatton, 26% of households live in a terraced house, more than in 74% 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
For Hatton, the census puts households in detached houses at 28%. By way of comparison, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK: 2.7%, a lower share than 94% 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
Across England’s towns, nine in ten residents have English as their main language; in Hatton, 99%. Against that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.4%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%).
Hatton: 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 86% 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 Hatton · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (1.9%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Indian (0.7%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 50%, more than in 50% of UK towns. On average, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Hatton sits above 68% of UK towns for adults who have never married (35%)
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
The figure for married adults and civil partners is 45% in Hatton and 44% across England’s towns. At 7.8%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 87% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 63 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 25%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 25% of its adults qualified to degree level, Hatton compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 20% hold no qualification (18%).
219 UK towns of 2,500 to 3,000 people: this is the 66th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Keele (20.6), the youngest, and St Mary's Bay (60.8), the oldest. Nearest to Hatton in age: Scholes (near Cleckheaton) (44), Wolston (44), Hardwick (44.1) and Tonna (44.3).
A younger town than 5 of the 7 around it: Hatton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatton | 2,560 | — | 44.1 | 20% | 26% |
| Tutbury | 3,674 | 1 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 25% |
| Hilton | 8,269 | 2.2 mi | 37.6 | 11% | 36% |
| Rolleston on Dove | 2,902 | 2.2 mi | 52.7 | 31% | 22% |
| Stretton | 4,646 | 3.5 mi | 49.1 | 26% | 24% |
| Etwall | 3,080 | 3.6 mi | 44.2 | 23% | 31% |
| Burton upon Trent | 76,264 | 4.8 mi | 37.5 | 15% | 31% |
| Willington | 2,717 | 5.3 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 27% |
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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 Hatton’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Hatton’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 2,560 people in 2021, against 2,560 in the built-up area.
- 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 Hatton’s residents
What is the population of Hatton?
The 2021 Census counted 2,560 people in Hatton’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 3,100 people in mid-2024, 20% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Hatton?
The median age was 44.1 at the 2021 Census, younger than 53% of UK towns. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hatton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 2.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hatton?
44% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Hatton good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hatton’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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