Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Acaster Malbis is over 63
Here 15% of households have dependent children, where the figure across England’s towns is 29%. Census day 2021: 326 residents and 142 households in Acaster Malbis. Married adults and civil partners: 69% of the total. On residents with no religion, Acaster Malbis sits lower than 90% of UK towns: 32%.
Acaster Malbis: 45% of residents are 65 or over, above 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 12% across England’s towns, 5.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Acaster Malbis. Measured more widely, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
2.4% of adults are full-time students, below 99% 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 take in 49% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 11% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 7.7% of the total.
A smaller share of one-person households than 99% of UK towns: 12%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against North Yorkshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
2.8% of households are unrelated adults living together, against 4.3% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. There are 2.3 people in the average household.
In Acaster Malbis, 1.4% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 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
The figure for households in detached houses is 65% in Acaster Malbis and 21% across England’s towns. For comparison, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns. Here, 3.5% of households have no car or van.
Acaster Malbis sits above 97% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (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
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 4.6% in Acaster Malbis. Across England’s towns, residents whose main language is English come to 90%. Residents born abroad were most often born in Africa (2.2%), then in EU countries (0.9%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 98% in Acaster Malbis, more than in 99% 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: 98% of Acaster Malbis · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 61%, against 46% across England’s towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%.
13% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 15 people. For adults who have never married, the comparison across England’s towns is 39%. Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%; Acaster Malbis has 13%.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 45% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
45% of Acaster Malbis’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 9.7% have none (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Acaster Malbis
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acaster Malbis | 326 | — | 63 | 45% | 15% |
| Bishopthorpe | 3,333 | 1.4 mi | 48.5 | 26% | 29% |
| Copmanthorpe | 3,671 | 1.7 mi | 50.3 | 29% | 27% |
| Heslington | 1,787 | 3.8 mi | 19.8 | 9.9% | 22% |
| York | 141,696 | 4.1 mi | 36 | 16% | 24% |
| Cawood | 1,501 | 4.8 mi | 48.3 | 24% | 26% |
| Riccall | 2,388 | 5 mi | 47.7 | 25% | 27% |
| Osbaldwick | 2,313 | 5 mi | 43.2 | 20% | 21% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “North Yorkshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in North Yorkshire (or England), summed the same way as Acaster Malbis’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 Acaster Malbis’s residents
What is the population of Acaster Malbis?
The 2021 Census counted 326 people in Acaster Malbis’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Acaster Malbis?
The median age was 63 at the 2021 Census. 5.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 45% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Acaster Malbis?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Acaster Malbis?
32% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.8% didn’t answer.
Is Acaster Malbis good for families?
15% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Acaster Malbis’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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