Photo: Chemical Engineer · CC BY-SA 3.0Households without a car or van: 3.7%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
The share of households in flats is 2.6%, against 23% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, households with dependent children are common here: 31%, more than in nearly four fifths of UK towns. The 2021 Census put Drax’s population at 513, in 194 households. On the census count, 18% of households are one person living alone.
A larger share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 94% of UK towns: 13%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. For comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. The census found that nearly a fifth of residents are 65 or over in Drax.
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.
In Drax, 13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, more than in 94% 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%.
Just over a third of Drax’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 19% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Census figures put full-time students at 6.3% here. The share of residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns is 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Drax households average 2.5 people, larger than in 89% 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.
Set against 4.3% across England’s towns, 3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Drax.
A larger share of households in detached houses than 95% of UK towns: 59%
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
13% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). As a reference point, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Only 5.2% of Drax’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. 98% of residents have English as their main language, a higher share than in 51% of UK towns.
53% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 68% 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 Drax · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (2.9%), Indian (1.2%) and Mixed or multiple (0.8%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 46% across England’s towns. At 94%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is higher than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. Still, the share of residents with no religion trails 63% of UK towns: 39%.
More married adults and civil partners than 69% of UK towns: 51%
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 carers: 8%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. The usual figure: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Here, nearly a third of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
29% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Drax’s adults: 29% with a degree-level qualification and 18% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns. The highest qualification of 20% is A levels, often students still at university.
Median age: 6 of the 7 towns around Drax are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drax | 513 | — | 44.5 | 19% | 31% |
| Camblesforth | 1,557 | 1.5 mi | 47.6 | 23% | 25% |
| Carlton | 2,040 | 2.1 mi | 45.2 | 21% | 29% |
| Rawcliffe | 1,580 | 2.2 mi | 47 | 22% | 27% |
| Hemingbrough | 1,874 | 2.7 mi | 46.1 | 19% | 30% |
| Snaith | 3,557 | 3.3 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 28% |
| Goole | 20,173 | 4.6 mi | 39.2 | 18% | 29% |
| Howden | 4,572 | 4.8 mi | 48.6 | 26% | 22% |
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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 Drax’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 Drax’s residents
What is the population of Drax?
The 2021 Census counted 513 people in Drax’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Drax?
The median age was 44.5 at the 2021 Census. 13% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Drax?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 5.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Drax?
39% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Drax good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Drax’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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