Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0More family households than 95% of UK towns: 36% in Hilton
1.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across England’s towns the figure is 4.3%. The 2021 Census counted 8,269 residents in 3,352 households. Locally, 49% of households live in a detached house. At 46%, the share of residents with no religion is higher than in 82% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Hilton’s people
A town of families
36% of Hilton’s 3,352 households had dependent children in 2021, more than in 95% of UK towns and the highest share in Derbyshire. 20% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Hilton’s residents are under 37.6 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 12% are 15 to 24 and 11% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Hilton at 7,800 in 2011 and 9,200 in 2024, up 19%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 83% 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.
Since 2011, Hilton has grown +19%, faster than 83% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Hilton’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 7,800 people in 2011; 9,200 in 2024.
Mid-2021 to mid-2022 brought the biggest yearly rise, 410 people. Of the age groups, 65 and over changed most (+80%) and 30 to 44 least (−6%).
Residents aged 65 and over make up 11% in Hilton, less than in 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 37.6, Hilton is younger than 90% of UK towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Just over one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. In Bakewell, the oldest of Derbyshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Hilton, 37.6. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 6.7%, a higher share than 89% 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%.
At 11%, the share of residents who moved in within the year is in line with the figure across England’s towns. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Hilton households average 2.5 people, larger than in 86% 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.
Here just over a quarter of households are one person living alone, where the figure across England’s towns is 30%.
Hilton ranks below 95% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 6.9%
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 flats is 23%; Hilton has 11%. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are scarce here: 16%, fewer than in just over two thirds of UK towns. The share of households without a car or van across England’s towns is 24%.
Only 97% of residents have English as their main language in Hilton
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (2.8%) or in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%). Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison. Lower than in 54% of UK towns: 5.9% of residents were born outside the UK. Among those born abroad, the share arriving in 2017 or later is 15% (England’s towns: 21%).
89% of residents describe themselves as White British, below 67% 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: 89% of Hilton · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns, Hilton has 45%. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (3.7%), Mixed or multiple (2.6%) and Indian (2.2%). For residents who describe themselves as White British, the comparison across England’s towns is 73%.
36% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, a share 69% 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
Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 7.9%, close to the figure across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 144 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Hilton has more married adults and civil partners than 55% of UK towns, at 49%.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 41% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
41% of Hilton’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 8.4% have none (18%). A levels are as far as 21% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Of 424 UK towns its size (6,000 to 11,000 people), the 23rd youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Tidworth is the youngest (28.4); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Hilton in age: Chadwell St Mary (37.4), South Merstham (37.5), Goldthorpe (38) and Llanharan and Brynna (38).
Every neighbour of Hilton has an older population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hilton | 8,269 | — | 37.6 | 11% | 36% |
| Etwall | 3,080 | 1.5 mi | 44.2 | 23% | 31% |
| Rolleston on Dove | 2,902 | 1.7 mi | 52.7 | 31% | 22% |
| Hatton | 2,560 | 2.2 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 26% |
| Stretton | 4,646 | 2.4 mi | 49.1 | 26% | 24% |
| Tutbury | 3,674 | 2.6 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 25% |
| Willington | 2,717 | 3.3 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 27% |
| Findern | 1,608 | 3.6 mi | 52.2 | 31% | 22% |
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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 Hilton’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. Hilton’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 8,269 people in 2021, against 8,269 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 Hilton’s residents
What is the population of Hilton?
The 2021 Census counted 8,269 people in Hilton’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 9,200 people in mid-2024, 19% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Hilton?
The median age was 37.6 at the 2021 Census, younger than 90% of UK towns. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 11% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hilton?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hilton?
46% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Hilton good for families?
36% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hilton’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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