Photo: Nick Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 0.6% of households live in a terraced house
In Yorkletts, 17% of households are one person living alone, beside 30% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, households without a car or van are scarce here: 7.5%, fewer than in 94% of UK towns. 449 residents in 175 households: that is Yorkletts at the 2021 Census. Census figures put unpaid carers at 13% here.
Only 8.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Yorkletts
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Yorkletts is 47.9, higher than in nearly three quarters of UK towns. Here, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over. Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. In St Mary's Bay, the oldest of Kent’s towns by this measure, it is 42%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 113 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year: 6.8%, a lower share than 89% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 37% of Yorkletts’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 17%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, full-time students are scarce here: 4.6%, fewer than in 58% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%.
Larger households than 95% of UK towns: 2.6 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Kent’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
With households with dependent children at 30%, Yorkletts is ahead of 76% of UK towns on that count. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 2.9% in the village.
Yorkletts: 87% of households live in a detached house, above 99% 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
Residents whose main language is English: 100%, a higher share than 99% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.1%). Fewer residents born outside the UK than in four fifths of UK towns: 3.8%. To put it in context, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
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 Yorkletts · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 53%, against 46% across England’s towns. For residents who describe themselves as White British, the comparison across England’s towns is 73%. Locally, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion.
Yorkletts: 61% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 99% 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
Nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, against 25% in Yorkletts. On average, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 28%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 28% of its adults qualified to degree level, Yorkletts compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 19% hold no qualification (18%).
Nearby, 2 of 7 towns have older populations than Yorkletts
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkletts | 449 | — | 47.9 | 22% | 30% |
| Whitstable | 32,185 | 2.3 mi | 51.3 | 29% | 23% |
| Blean | 1,327 | 2.3 mi | 52.3 | 32% | 22% |
| Boughton under Blean | 2,274 | 3 mi | 46.1 | 23% | 28% |
| Rough Common | 1,291 | 3.2 mi | 42.5 | 24% | 27% |
| Canterbury | 55,107 | 4.7 mi | 27.5 | 13% | 24% |
| Faversham | 20,941 | 4.9 mi | 43.8 | 22% | 28% |
| Chartham | 3,569 | 5.5 mi | 37.6 | 13% | 37% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Kent’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Kent (or England), summed the same way as Yorkletts’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 Yorkletts’s residents
What is the population of Yorkletts?
The 2021 Census counted 449 people in Yorkletts’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Yorkletts?
The median age was 47.9 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Yorkletts?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Yorkletts?
39% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.8% didn’t answer.
Is Yorkletts good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Yorkletts’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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