Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0A village of terraces: 49% of households live in one
Just over two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, against 39% across England’s towns. Census day 2021: 303 residents and 136 households in Pye Bridge. Here, 55% of residents said they have no religion. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
A young village: 12% of residents are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 45–49: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. The median age in Pye Bridge is 45.6, higher than in 58% of UK towns. Across Pye Bridge, 19% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of full-time students than 55% of UK towns, at 4.7%
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%.
8.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier (England’s towns: 11%). As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 25% of households have dependent children in Pye Bridge
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.
The typical household size is 2.2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. 3.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a higher share than in 89% of UK towns. The share of households with dependent children across England’s towns is 29%. In Pye Bridge, 31% of households are one person living alone.
Pye Bridge sits below 76% of UK towns for households in detached houses (19%)
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
16% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Measured more widely, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born outside the UK than 87% of UK towns: 3.3%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.3%). Pye Bridge has more residents whose main language is English than 95% of UK towns, at 99%. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Only 40% of residents describe themselves as Christian in Pye Bridge
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 Pye Bridge · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Above 99% of UK towns: 16% of residents give unpaid care
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
Compared with 44% across England’s towns, 38% of adults are married or in a civil partnership here. 17 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Unpaid carers: 8.7% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 26% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Pye Bridge’s adults: 26% with a degree-level qualification and 25% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Pye Bridge
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pye Bridge | 303 | — | 45.6 | 19% | 25% |
| Ironville | 1,824 | 0.9 mi | 42.4 | 20% | 26% |
| Jacksdale and Westwood | 2,758 | 1 mi | 48 | 23% | 24% |
| Somercotes and Swanwick | 15,105 | 1.4 mi | 44.9 | 21% | 26% |
| South Normanton and Pinxton | 16,028 | 1.8 mi | 43.8 | 19% | 25% |
| Selston | 6,278 | 1.9 mi | 47.7 | 25% | 25% |
| Brinsley and Underwood | 4,514 | 2.2 mi | 51 | 29% | 21% |
| Alfreton | 8,790 | 2.4 mi | 42.2 | 20% | 25% |
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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 Pye Bridge’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 Pye Bridge’s residents
What is the population of Pye Bridge?
The 2021 Census counted 303 people in Pye Bridge’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pye Bridge?
The median age was 45.6 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pye Bridge?
96% 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 Pye Bridge?
55% said they had no religion and 40% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Pye Bridge good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Pye Bridge’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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