Photo: Rpriv2000 Russ Hamer · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer households in flats than 97% of UK towns: 1.7%
With households in terraced houses at 10%, Stanley is behind 88% of UK towns on that count. Just over one in ten residents give unpaid care, more than in 98% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 543 residents and 232 households here. Here, 8.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Older than 82% of UK towns: half of Stanley is over 49.4
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. On the census count, nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over.
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.
In Stanley, 4.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
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%.
Compared with 7.9% across England’s towns, 4.4% of adults are full-time students here. Residents who moved in within the year make up 11% across England’s towns.
Fewer households with dependent children than 76% of UK towns: 25%
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Against that, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. The census found that 27% of households are one person living alone in Stanley. Households average 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns.
A larger share of households in detached houses than 74% of UK towns: 39%
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 14%, against 24% across England’s towns. Meanwhile, 1.7% of households live in a flat, less than in 97% of UK towns; 39% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Stanley sits below 55% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (5.9%)
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
98% of residents have English as their main language; across England’s towns the figure is 90%. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (3.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%).
More residents who describe themselves as White British than 75% of UK towns: 95%
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 Stanley · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.1%), Indian (1.1%) and Chinese (0.6%). The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%. At 53%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is higher than in 69% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%; Stanley has 42%.
Adults who have never married make up 27% in Stanley, less than in 84% 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
23 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Stanley has more married adults and civil partners than just over four fifths of UK towns, at 53%. For comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
30% 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 Stanley, 30%, and 19% have none, against 18%.
Median age: 2 of the 7 towns around Stanley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanley | 543 | — | 49.4 | 24% | 25% |
| West Hallam | 5,912 | 0.9 mi | 50.9 | 28% | 23% |
| Smalley | 2,201 | 2.7 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 29% |
| Ilkeston | 38,723 | 2.8 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 27% |
| Borrowash | 7,171 | 3.4 mi | 47.7 | 24% | 26% |
| Little Eaton | 1,875 | 3.6 mi | 49.7 | 25% | 28% |
| Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse | 4,447 | 3.7 mi | 47.5 | 25% | 24% |
| Heanor | 24,264 | 3.9 mi | 42.5 | 19% | 26% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Stanley’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 Stanley’s residents
What is the population of Stanley?
The 2021 Census counted 543 people in Stanley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stanley?
The median age was 49.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stanley?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stanley?
42% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 3.7% didn’t answer.
Is Stanley good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stanley’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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