Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe · CC BY-SA 2.0Spinkhill sits above 97% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (16%)
Households with dependent children make up 22%, against 29% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Spinkhill’s population at 238, in 94 households. On the census count, 6.3% of households have no car or van. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Spinkhill is older than 83% of UK towns: a median age of 49.6
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over in Spinkhill comes in at 19%. No age band is larger than 60–64: 12% of residents, 2.1 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 115 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A larger share of full-time students than 98% of UK towns: 14%
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%.
Nothing unusual on residents who moved in within the year: 11%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 27% of households are one person living alone in Spinkhill
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.
A household here has 2.2 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns.
Spinkhill sits above 78% of UK towns for households in detached houses (41%)
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
Here a quarter of households live in a terraced house, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. Measured more widely, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Spinkhill: 11% of residents were born outside the UK, above 77% of UK towns
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
97% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (3.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (2.5%).
Below 95% of UK towns: 29% of residents said they have no religion
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: 86% of Spinkhill · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Spinkhill has 86%. Residents with no religion make up 37% across England’s towns. Just over three in five residents describe themselves as Christian.
More unpaid carers than 66% of UK towns: 10% of residents
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
Adults who have never married account for 32%. Spinkhill has fewer married adults and civil partners than 50% of UK towns, at 48%.
43% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
16% of Spinkhill’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 43% have one at degree level (34%). Many still at university: 18% list A levels as their highest qualification.
Of the 7 towns nearest Spinkhill, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinkhill | 238 | — | 49.6 | 19% | 22% |
| Renishaw | 2,425 | 0.5 mi | 38.6 | 14% | 32% |
| Killamarsh | 9,082 | 1.4 mi | 45.6 | 22% | 27% |
| Barlborough | 2,859 | 1.8 mi | 47.6 | 21% | 27% |
| Eckington | 7,435 | 2 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 24% |
| Harthill | 1,729 | 2.7 mi | 50.8 | 27% | 23% |
| Clowne | 7,759 | 3 mi | 45.6 | 23% | 26% |
| Staveley | 15,151 | 3.3 mi | 41.7 | 19% | 29% |
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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 Spinkhill’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 Spinkhill’s residents
What is the population of Spinkhill?
The 2021 Census counted 238 people in Spinkhill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Spinkhill?
The median age was 49.6 at the 2021 Census. 16% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
Is Spinkhill a student village?
Yes: 14% of adults were full-time students at the 2021 Census (29 people), against 7.9% across England’s towns.
How diverse is Spinkhill?
86% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Spinkhill?
29% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 9.7% didn’t answer.
Is Spinkhill good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Spinkhill’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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