Photo: Mausover · CC BY-SA 3.0Half of Bagby is over 54.1, older than 95% of UK towns
The share of households in detached houses is 66%, against 21% across England’s towns. There were 246 households in Bagby at the 2021 Census, home to 564 residents. Households in terraced houses: 6.6% of the total. One-person households are rarer here than in 97% of UK towns.
Bagby ranks above 86% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: just over one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. For Bagby, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 9.5%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Bagby ranks above 73% of UK towns on full-time students: 5.4%
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Bagby, 40% and 14%. Just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, a higher share than in 83% of UK towns. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.2%, a lower share than 98% of UK towns
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.
Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children; in Bagby, 21%. By way of comparison, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. There are 2.3 people in the average household.
Only 1.2% of households live in a flat or apartment in Bagby
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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Bagby comes in at 5.3%. The usual figure: nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
In Bagby, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 98% 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
Residents born outside the UK: 3.4%, below 86% of UK towns. To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%).
Above 99% of UK towns: 68% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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 Bagby · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 46% across England’s towns. Here, 29% of residents said they have no religion.
Above 99% of UK towns: 65% of adults are married or in 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
Compared with 39% across England’s towns, just over a fifth of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 8. 8.6% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 70% of UK towns.
43% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
43% of Bagby’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have none (18%).
The towns around Bagby are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bagby | 564 | — | 54.1 | 28% | 21% |
| Thirsk | 5,891 | 2.3 mi | 47.3 | 24% | 21% |
| Sowerby | 4,727 | 2.3 mi | 45 | 25% | 26% |
| Dishforth | 1,266 | 6.7 mi | 33.8 | 8.8% | 45% |
| Ampleforth | 1,239 | 7.8 mi | 36.6 | 18% | 24% |
| Easingwold | 5,036 | 7.9 mi | 51.8 | 31% | 20% |
| Langthorpe | 1,294 | 9.2 mi | 45.8 | 20% | 29% |
| Boroughbridge | 3,064 | 9.5 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 24% |
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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.
- “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 Bagby’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 Bagby’s residents
What is the population of Bagby?
The 2021 Census counted 564 people in Bagby’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bagby?
The median age was 54.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bagby?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bagby?
29% said they had no religion and 68% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3% didn’t answer.
Is Bagby good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bagby’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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