Photo: Jonathan Gill · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 99% of UK towns: 0.5%
The median age in Horsley is 50.5, higher than in 87% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Horsley was home to 459 people in 192 households. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 2.1% in the village. Compared with 39% across England’s towns, 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.3%, a lower share than 90% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 10–14: 7.8% of residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 29% in Horsley.
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.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 96% of UK towns: 6.1%
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%.
The share of full-time students tops 70% of UK towns: 5.3%. The wider picture: 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.
Only 26% of households are one person living alone in Horsley
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.
At 2.4 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Households with dependent children: 29% of the total. For one-person households, the comparison across England’s towns is 30%.
Horsley ranks below 99% of UK towns on households in flats: 0.5%
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
55% of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. By contrast, households without a car or van are rarer here than in nearly four fifths of UK towns. On average, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Only 3.3% of Horsley’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 (1.5%) or in Africa (1.3%). As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. 98% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 68% of UK towns.
Horsley ranks above 90% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 58%
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: 95% of Horsley · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 95% in Horsley and 73% across England’s towns. The village has fewer residents with no religion than 75% of UK towns, at 37%. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as Christian come to 46%. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (3.7%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Indian (0.2%).
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 89% of UK towns: 55%
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
11 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are more common here than in 92% of UK towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 34%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 34% of adults in Horsley, 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification, against 18%.
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Horsley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horsley | 459 | — | 50.5 | 29% | 29% |
| Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse | 4,447 | 0.7 mi | 47.5 | 25% | 24% |
| Holbrook | 1,802 | 1.2 mi | 53 | 32% | 23% |
| Denby Bottles | 1,756 | 1.3 mi | 38.4 | 15% | 32% |
| Smalley | 2,201 | 1.9 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 29% |
| Milford | 1,077 | 1.9 mi | 49.9 | 25% | 20% |
| Little Eaton | 1,875 | 2 mi | 49.7 | 25% | 28% |
| Makeney | 4,691 | 2.5 mi | 48.1 | 25% | 31% |
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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 Horsley’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 Horsley’s residents
What is the population of Horsley?
The 2021 Census counted 459 people in Horsley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Horsley?
The median age was 50.5 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Horsley?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Horsley?
37% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Horsley good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Horsley’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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