Photo: David Hallam-Jones · CC BY-SA 2.052% of residents said they have no religion, a share 96% of UK towns don’t reach
7% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Households in detached houses account for 34%. More residents aged 15 to 24 than in 70% of UK towns: 10%. The 2021 Census counted 9,373 residents in 4,052 households.
What the Census says about Sandiacre’s people
More with no religion than most
52% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 40% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
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.
A +4% change since 2011: slower than 66% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Sandiacre’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 8,900 people in 2011; 9,300 in 2024.
Of the age groups, 65 and over changed most (+23%) and 16 to 29 least (−2%). No year added more people than mid-2014 to mid-2015: 200.
Sandiacre is younger than 58% of UK towns: a median age of 43.5
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 7.5% of residents. In Bakewell, the oldest of Derbyshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Sandiacre, 43.5. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Sandiacre sits below 68% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (7.9%)
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Sandiacre, 31% and 27%. The wider picture: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Here, 4.9% of adults are full-time students.
Fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 58% of UK towns: 2.2%
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 census found that 27% of households have dependent children in Sandiacre. The comparison figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 4.3% across England’s towns. Where 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, Sandiacre has 29%.
Below 61% of UK towns: 17% of households live in a terraced house
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 (England’s towns: 24%).
Below 63% of UK towns: 5.1% of 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Here 98% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%.
40% describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 92% 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: 92% of Sandiacre · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (2.1%) and Indian (0.8%). For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%. Compared with 73% across England’s towns, 92% of residents describe themselves as White British here.
Above 63% of UK towns: 34% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
One in ten residents give unpaid care; across England’s towns the figure is 8.7%. Still, at 46%, the share of married adults and civil partners is lower than in 64% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
25% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Sandiacre, 25%, and 20% have none, against 18%.
Among 413 UK towns of 7,000 to 13,000 people, the 167th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Tidworth (28.4) and the oldest Seaton (61). Nearest to Sandiacre in age: Barwell (43.4), Clay Cross (43.5), Sawston (43.5) and Baldock (43.5).
Sandiacre and its 7 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandiacre | 9,373 | — | 43.5 | 22% | 27% |
| Stapleford | 15,041 | 1.1 mi | 40.8 | 19% | 28% |
| Trowell | 2,165 | 1.9 mi | 51.7 | 29% | 22% |
| Long Eaton | 37,815 | 2.1 mi | 42.6 | 19% | 26% |
| Breaston and Draycott | 7,393 | 2.2 mi | 50.1 | 27% | 22% |
| Beeston | 52,359 | 2.6 mi | 41.4 | 21% | 24% |
| Borrowash | 7,171 | 3.4 mi | 47.7 | 24% | 26% |
| Ilkeston | 38,723 | 3.6 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 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 Sandiacre’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. Sandiacre’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 9,124 people in 2021, against 9,373 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 Sandiacre’s residents
What is the population of Sandiacre?
The 2021 Census counted 9,373 people in Sandiacre’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 9,300 people in mid-2024, 4% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Sandiacre?
The median age was 43.5 at the 2021 Census, younger than 58% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Sandiacre?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 5.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Sandiacre?
52% said they had no religion and 40% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Sandiacre good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Sandiacre’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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