Photo: Rob Purvis · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 51.4: Yealmpton is older than 91% of UK towns
Households in flats: 2.2% here and 23% across England’s towns. 8.9% of households have no car or van, a lower share than in 88% of UK towns. There were 870 households in Yealmpton at the 2021 Census, home to 2,007 residents. In Yealmpton, 57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
What the Census says about Yealmpton’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Yealmpton’s residents are under 51.4 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 32% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 15 to 24: 7.6%, a lower share than 96% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
32% of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). As a yardstick, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 84% 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%.
Here 4.4% of adults are full-time students, where the figure across England’s towns is 7.9%. Typically, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Yealmpton ranks below 74% of UK towns on one-person households: 27%
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.
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Yealmpton, 2.3. Set beside that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 2.2%. Households with dependent children are more common here than in 51% of UK towns.
In Yealmpton, 50% of households live in a detached house, more than in 90% of UK towns
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
Locally, a fifth of households live in a terraced house. 2.2% of households live in a flat, less than in 96% of UK towns; 50% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 81% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%). Few places have so few residents born outside the UK: 6.2% here, fewer than in 52% of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. Born abroad and arrived since 2017: just over a tenth of that group, against 21% across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 95% in Yealmpton, more than in 77% 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: 95% of Yealmpton · Devon’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
44% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 73% across England’s towns, for comparison. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2.6%), Mixed or multiple (1.3%) and Chinese (0.2%). Fewer residents who describe themselves as Christian than in 53% of UK towns: 49%.
Only 23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Yealmpton
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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 60. On unpaid carers, Yealmpton sits higher than 89% of UK towns: 11%. Adults who have never married: 39% across England’s towns, for comparison.
45% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 45% of adults in Yealmpton (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 12% (England’s towns: 18%).
Older than Yealmpton: 1 of the 7 towns nearby
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Yealmpton’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 Yealmpton’s residents
What is the population of Yealmpton?
The 2021 Census counted 2,007 people in Yealmpton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Yealmpton?
The median age was 51.4 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Yealmpton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Devon’s towns. 6.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Yealmpton?
44% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Yealmpton good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Yealmpton’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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