Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 94% of UK towns: half of Crapstone is over 53.5
The share of married adults and civil partners tops 99% of UK towns: 62%. Crapstone is home to 646 residents in 269 households, by the 2021 Census. Households without a car or van: 7.4% of the total. At 57%, the share of households in detached houses is higher than in 95% of UK towns.
30% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 90% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 8.7% in Crapstone.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Crapstone ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 5.5%
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%.
Full-time students make up 5.2%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across England’s towns is 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
One-person households: 24%, a lower share than 90% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Devon’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, against 26% in Crapstone. As a reference point, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. There are 2.4 people in the average household. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are scarce here: 2.2%, fewer than in 55% of UK towns.
Only 7.5% of households live in a flat or apartment in Crapstone
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
Where nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Crapstone has 18%. The share of households in flats across England’s towns is 23%.
More residents whose main language is English than 93% of UK towns: 99%
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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (3.1%), then in Africa (1.7%). On average, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. More residents born outside the UK than in 61% of UK towns: 7.6%.
57% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 88% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Crapstone · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here just over a third of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. 94% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Below 98% of UK towns: 22% 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
Where nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Crapstone has 11%. Measured more widely, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 16 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week.
55% of adults have qualifications at degree level
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 Crapstone, 55%, and 9.6% have none, against 18%.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Crapstone
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crapstone | 646 | — | 53.5 | 30% | 26% |
| Yelverton | 1,856 | 1.1 mi | 57.8 | 39% | 18% |
| Horrabridge | 1,875 | 1.4 mi | 51.5 | 28% | 24% |
| Bere Alston | 2,259 | 3.3 mi | 52.6 | 31% | 20% |
| Tavistock | 12,676 | 4 mi | 51.7 | 30% | 22% |
| Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel | 3,506 | 5.2 mi | 50.5 | 27% | 23% |
| Princetown | 1,442 | 6.6 mi | 42.7 | 17% | 25% |
| Plymouth | 266,970 | 6.9 mi | 39.6 | 19% | 26% |
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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.
- “Devon’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Devon (or England), summed the same way as Crapstone’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 Crapstone’s residents
What is the population of Crapstone?
The 2021 Census counted 646 people in Crapstone’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Crapstone?
The median age was 53.5 at the 2021 Census. 8.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Crapstone?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 7.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Crapstone?
35% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Crapstone good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Crapstone’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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