Photo: Bill Henderson · CC BY-SA 2.0Burn is older than 98% of UK towns: a median age of 56.8
Households with dependent children: 17%, below 97% of UK towns. Across Burn, 1% of households live in a flat or apartment. The village has fewer residents with no religion than 89% of UK towns, at 32%. There were 212 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 462 residents.
More residents aged 65 and over than 96% of UK towns: 34%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 60–64 than any other five-year age: 10% of residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 8.9%. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Burn ranks below 96% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.4%
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%.
Compared with 11% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier here. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
A lower share of one-person households than 83% of UK towns, at 25%
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.
A household here has 2.2 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 1.9%. As a yardstick, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
More households in detached houses than 98% of UK towns: 63%
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
8.5% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Burn has fewer households in terraced houses than 97% of UK towns, at 5.7%. Households in detached houses make up 21% across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK: 2.2%, a lower share than 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 whose main language is English: 99%, above 96% of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (0.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%).
Burn: 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 93% 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: 94% of Burn · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (5.4%), Indian (0.7%) and African (0.2%). Burn has more residents who describe themselves as White British than 64% of UK towns, at 94%. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%.
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns: 61%
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
The share of unpaid carers tops 88% of UK towns: 11%. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 22% here, fewer than in 98% of UK towns. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns. 18 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
Among adults, 29% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 29% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 20% hold no qualification (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Burn
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burn | 462 | — | 56.8 | 34% | 17% |
| Brayton | 4,092 | 1.2 mi | 45.9 | 25% | 29% |
| Thorpe Willoughby | 3,482 | 1.7 mi | 43.9 | 22% | 26% |
| Selby | 19,480 | 2.3 mi | 39.4 | 17% | 28% |
| Hambleton | 1,722 | 3.2 mi | 47.9 | 26% | 27% |
| Camblesforth | 1,557 | 3.8 mi | 47.6 | 23% | 25% |
| Eggborough | 2,440 | 4 mi | 39.1 | 18% | 31% |
| Barlby | 3,499 | 4.1 mi | 40.2 | 19% | 28% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Burn’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 Burn’s residents
What is the population of Burn?
The 2021 Census counted 462 people in Burn’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Burn?
The median age was 56.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Burn?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 2.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Burn?
32% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 6.5% didn’t answer.
Is Burn good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Burn’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.