Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 1.1% of households live in a flat or apartment in Carlton
Nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone; across England’s towns the figure is 30%. On married adults and civil partners, Carlton sits higher than 85% of UK towns: 54%. At the 2021 Census Carlton was home to 2,040 people in 880 households. Locally, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Carlton: 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24, above 70% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 8.1% of residents. For comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. In Filey, the oldest of North Yorkshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Carlton: 10% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, above 80% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Carlton, 34% and 25%. On the census count, 4.8% of adults are full-time students. Elsewhere, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Only 1.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Carlton
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.
In Carlton the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. The wider picture: 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Locally, 29% of households have dependent children.
Fewer households without a car or van than 91% of UK towns: 8.3%
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
Households in terraced houses: 9.7%, below 90% of UK towns. Still, 49% of households live in a detached house, more than in 89% of UK towns. Against that, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Carlton ranks below 94% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 2.8%
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% here and 90% across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.5%). The usual figure: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Above 78% of UK towns: 54% 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: 96% of Carlton · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 40%, against 37% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (1.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Indian (0.3%).
29% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 76% 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
Some 40 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Typically, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.2%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 28% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
28% of Carlton’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 16% have none (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 5 are older than Carlton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlton | 2,040 | — | 45.2 | 21% | 29% |
| Camblesforth | 1,557 | 1.1 mi | 47.6 | 23% | 25% |
| Snaith | 3,557 | 1.5 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 28% |
| Rawcliffe | 1,580 | 2.5 mi | 47 | 22% | 27% |
| Hemingbrough | 1,874 | 4.4 mi | 46.1 | 19% | 30% |
| Brayton | 4,092 | 5 mi | 45.9 | 25% | 29% |
| Selby | 19,480 | 5.3 mi | 39.4 | 17% | 28% |
| Eggborough | 2,440 | 5.4 mi | 39.1 | 18% | 31% |
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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 Carlton’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 Carlton’s residents
What is the population of Carlton?
The 2021 Census counted 2,040 people in Carlton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Carlton?
The median age was 45.2 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Carlton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 2.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Carlton?
40% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.1% didn’t answer.
Is Carlton good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Carlton’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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