Photo: JimChampion · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Corfe Castle is over 60.2
15% of households have dependent children; across England’s towns the figure is 29%. In 2021, the Census found 890 residents in Corfe Castle, living in 424 households. Census figures put married adults and civil partners at 55% in the village. The village has more residents who describe themselves as White British than 88% of UK towns, at 96%.
41% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: just over one in ten residents, 2.4 times the share across England’s towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 8.3% in Corfe Castle.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
A smaller share of full-time students than 94% of UK towns: 3.5%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 8%, below 64% of UK towns. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Smaller households than 96% of UK towns: 2.1 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Dorset’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Against a figure of 30% across England’s towns, the share of one-person households in Corfe Castle comes in at 33%. The village has fewer shared households of unrelated adults than 63% of UK towns, at 2.1%.
A village of detached houses: 43% of households live in one
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
By its share of households in flats (6.8%), Corfe Castle is below 73% of UK towns. Households in terraced houses account for 22%. Compared with other places, households without a car or van are scarce here: 15%, fewer than in 52% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%.
Above 90% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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 outside the UK make up 4.8%, against 18% across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.9%) and in Africa (1.1%).
58% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 90% 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: 96% of Corfe Castle · Dorset’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.8%), Mixed or multiple (0.3%) and Indian (0.2%). Just over a third of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
14% of residents give unpaid care, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; in Corfe Castle, 22%. For comparison, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. 38 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 34% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 34% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 21% hold no qualification (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Corfe Castle
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
- “Dorset’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Dorset (or England), summed the same way as Corfe Castle’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 Corfe Castle’s residents
What is the population of Corfe Castle?
The 2021 Census counted 890 people in Corfe Castle’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Corfe Castle?
The median age was 60.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 41% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Corfe Castle?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Dorset’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Corfe Castle?
34% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 7% didn’t answer.
Is Corfe Castle good for families?
15% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Corfe Castle’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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