Photo: Christopher Hilton · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Barton is over 55.8, older than 97% of UK towns
Residents with no religion: 30% here and 37% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Barton’s population at 776, in 371 households. For Barton, the census puts households in flats at 0.8%. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 20% here, fewer than in 93% of UK towns.
In Barton, 35% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Barton has 8.5%. The wider picture: 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 91 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.
Barton ranks below 56% of UK towns on full-time students: 4.7%
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%.
By class, 40% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 18% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 8.5% in Barton. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
Barton households average 2.1 people, smaller than in 92% 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.
Compared with 4.3% across England’s towns, 1.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home here. 28% of households are one person living alone.
Above 85% of UK towns: 45% of households live in a detached house
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
With households without a car or van at 10%, Barton is behind 82% of UK towns on that count. Across England’s towns, households in detached houses come to 21%. 30% of households live in a terraced house.
100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 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
Across England’s towns the share born abroad is 18%; in Barton it is 4%. The wider picture: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.9%) or in Africa (1%).
Barton sits above 99% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (99%)
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: 99% of Barton · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 64% here and 46% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 97% of UK towns: 23%
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 44% across England’s towns, 56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership here. Across the comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers: just over a tenth of the total.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 38%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 38% of adults in Barton (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 16% (England’s towns: 18%).
The towns around Barton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barton | 776 | — | 55.8 | 35% | 20% |
| Hurworth-on-Tees | 2,667 | 4.4 mi | 50.5 | 29% | 25% |
| Darlington | 93,022 | 5.4 mi | 42.4 | 20% | 26% |
| Scorton | 1,011 | 5.5 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 28% |
| Brompton-on-Swale | 1,899 | 5.6 mi | 50.6 | 25% | 24% |
| Richmond | 8,076 | 5.7 mi | 51.9 | 29% | 21% |
| Gainford | 1,127 | 6.3 mi | 53.5 | 31% | 24% |
| Catterick | 2,718 | 6.8 mi | 37.9 | 20% | 27% |
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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 Barton’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 Barton’s residents
What is the population of Barton?
The 2021 Census counted 776 people in Barton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Barton?
The median age was 55.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Barton?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Barton?
30% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Barton good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Barton’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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