Photo: T Eyre · CC BY-SA 2.0Households with dependent children make up 19% in Kirkbymoorside, less than in 96% of UK towns
At 2.1 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Kirkbymoorside had 2,763 residents in 1,345 households at the 2021 Census. Households in terraced houses account for 29%. Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in 92% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Kirkbymoorside’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Kirkbymoorside’s residents are under 51.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 30% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Older than 91% of UK towns: half of Kirkbymoorside is over 51.5
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (9.4%), Kirkbymoorside is below 63% of UK towns. Locally, 30% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Kirkbymoorside, 51.5. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Fewer full-time students than 92% of UK towns: 3.7%
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%.
Against a figure of 11% across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Kirkbymoorside comes in at 7.8%. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
One-person households: 37%, a higher share than 94% 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.
4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, against 1.9% in Kirkbymoorside. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison.
More car-free households than 58% of UK towns: 17% in Kirkbymoorside
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
Set against 23% across England’s towns, 9.3% of households live in a flat or apartment in Kirkbymoorside. Typically, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns. Households in detached houses: 30% of the total.
Below 81% of UK towns: 3.7% of 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
Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language; in Kirkbymoorside, 99%. Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.4%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.4%).
Kirkbymoorside sits above 87% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (57%)
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 Kirkbymoorside · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Nothing unusual on residents with no religion: 37%, close to the figure across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Chinese (0.1%).
Kirkbymoorside ranks below 70% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 29%
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 make up 9.9%, against 8.7% across England’s towns. The share of adults who have never married across England’s towns is 39%. Across Kirkbymoorside, 48% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Qualified to degree level: 29% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 29% of Kirkbymoorside’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 20% have no qualification (18%).
82nd oldest of 514 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Keele (20.6), the youngest, and West Chiltington (63.1), the oldest. Nearest to Kirkbymoorside in age: Barnt Green (51.3), Porthleven (51.3), Newlyn (51.5) and Cherry Willingham (51.6).
Kirkbymoorside and its 6 nearest towns: 3 of them 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkbymoorside | 2,763 | — | 51.5 | 30% | 19% |
| Helmsley | 1,345 | 5.2 mi | 60.2 | 42% | 14% |
| Pickering | 7,260 | 6.5 mi | 53.8 | 34% | 19% |
| Ampleforth | 1,239 | 8.3 mi | 36.6 | 18% | 24% |
| Thornton-le-Dale | 1,858 | 8.9 mi | 59.5 | 40% | 17% |
| Malton | 6,320 | 10.6 mi | 44.6 | 23% | 25% |
| Norton-on-Derwent | 7,909 | 11.4 mi | 43 | 21% | 26% |
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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 Kirkbymoorside’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 Kirkbymoorside’s residents
What is the population of Kirkbymoorside?
The 2021 Census counted 2,763 people in Kirkbymoorside’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Kirkbymoorside?
The median age was 51.5 at the 2021 Census, older than 91% of UK towns. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Kirkbymoorside?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Kirkbymoorside?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Kirkbymoorside good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Kirkbymoorside’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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