Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0Uppermill is older than 85% of UK towns: a median age of 50.1
A third of residents said they have no religion (England’s towns: 37%). The census found that a quarter of households have dependent children in Uppermill. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 55% here, more than in 87% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 11,207 residents in the town, living in 4,949 households.
What the Census says about Uppermill’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Uppermill’s residents are under 50.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 27% 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) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Uppermill changed by +2% from 2011 to 2024, behind 77% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Uppermill’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 12,100 people in 2011; 12,300 in 2024.
Split by age, the 65 and over changed most (+44%) and the 30 to 44 least (−19%). The biggest jump came in the year to mid-2013: 150 more people.
Uppermill ranks above 79% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 27%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 here. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Uppermill, 50.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 92% of UK towns: 6.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
In Uppermill, 46% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 15% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Higher than in 69% of UK towns: 5.3% of adults are full-time students. Set beside that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Uppermill
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Greater Manchester’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The average household has 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. 30% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 51% of UK towns. The benchmark for shared households of unrelated adults across England’s towns: 4.3%.
A higher share of households in terraced houses than 73% of UK towns, at 26%
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
Set against 23% across England’s towns, 14% of households live in a flat or apartment in Uppermill. The wider picture: 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns. Households without a car or van account for 15%. On households in detached houses, Uppermill sits lower than just over half of UK towns: 29%.
Residents born outside the UK make up 2.9% in Uppermill, less than in 93% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.6%). 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 94% of UK towns. The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%. Since 2017: 7.4% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns.
Uppermill ranks above 95% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 61%
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 Uppermill · Greater Manchester’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 73% across England’s towns, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British in Uppermill. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. The groups that follow White British are Other White (2%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and Pakistani (0.4%).
Below 82% of UK towns: 27% 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
For 291 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Few places have as many unpaid carers: 9.9% here, more than in 64% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 43%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Uppermill’s adults: 43% with a degree-level qualification and 13% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
From a median age of 49 in Greenfield & Uppermill to 51 in Springhead & Grasscroft
The town’s 4 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Springhead & Grasscroft is the oldest area, with 27% aged 65 or over; Greenfield & Uppermill the youngest (median age 49). Families with children are most common in Greenfield & Uppermill (26% of households).
Among 397 UK towns of 8,000 to 15,000 people, the 52nd oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Aberystwyth is the youngest (25); Sidmouth the oldest (60.4). Nearest to Uppermill in age: Brightlingsea (49.9), Hedon (50), North Walsham (50.2) and Sherborne (50.2).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Uppermill are older
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
- 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.
- “Greater Manchester’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Greater Manchester (or England), summed the same way as Uppermill’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Uppermill’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 12,190 people in 2021, against 11,207 in the built-up area.
- 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 Uppermill’s residents
What is the population of Uppermill?
The 2021 Census counted 11,207 people in Uppermill’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 12,300 people in mid-2024, 2% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Uppermill?
The median age was 50.1 at the 2021 Census, older than 85% of UK towns. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Uppermill?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across Greater Manchester’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Uppermill?
33% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Uppermill good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Greenfield & Uppermill (26% of households). Schools are on Uppermill’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024 · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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