Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester Kent · CC BY-SA 3.0Padfield sits above 99% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (62%)
Compared with 8.7% across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care here. At the 2021 Census Padfield was home to 751 people in 348 households. Here, 46% of residents said they have no religion. Households in detached houses are rarer here than in 83% of UK towns.
Padfield sits below 99% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (6.7%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9.5% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Locally, 20% of residents are 65 or over. The median age in Padfield is 46.2, higher than in 63% of UK towns. To put it in context, 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 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Padfield sits below 99% of UK towns for full-time students (2.7%)
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, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier; in Padfield, 8%. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 83% 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 28% of households are one person living alone, where the figure across England’s towns is 30%. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 64% of UK towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 3.2%.
Below 88% of UK towns: 4% of households live in a flat or apartment
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 without a car or van make up 11%, against 24% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Padfield sits above 65% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (98%)
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
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 5.5% in Padfield. For comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.8%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.1%).
Above 62% of UK towns: 94% of residents describe themselves as White British
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: 94% of Padfield · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (4%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and Arab (0.3%). To put it in context, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. 47% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a lower share than in 66% of UK towns.
52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 72% of UK towns
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
17 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Higher than in 58% of UK towns: 34% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. The wider picture: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 41% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Padfield’s adults: 41% with a degree-level qualification and 11% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
1 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Padfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Padfield | 751 | — | 46.2 | 20% | 26% |
| Hadfield | 16,271 | 1.1 mi | 44 | 20% | 27% |
| Glossop | 17,820 | 1.4 mi | 45.8 | 21% | 26% |
| Gamesley | 3,124 | 1.6 mi | 36.5 | 13% | 33% |
| Broadbottom | 1,001 | 2.7 mi | 48.8 | 23% | 22% |
| Hattersley | 6,959 | 3.2 mi | 34 | 12% | 35% |
| Stalybridge | 26,850 | 3.9 mi | 41.1 | 18% | 30% |
| Hyde | 35,902 | 4.8 mi | 39.3 | 17% | 31% |
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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 Padfield’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 Padfield’s residents
What is the population of Padfield?
The 2021 Census counted 751 people in Padfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Padfield?
The median age was 46.2 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Padfield?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 5.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Padfield?
46% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Padfield good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Padfield’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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