Photo: Alan Heardman · CC BY-SA 2.0Leeming Bar sits below 98% of UK towns for one-person households (20%)
73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, against 95% in Leeming Bar. Census day 2021: 1,063 residents and 433 households in the village. Across Leeming Bar, half of households live in a detached house. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are scarce here: 8.3%, fewer than in 93% of UK towns.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 88% of UK towns: 8.3%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 43.4, Leeming Bar is younger than 58% of UK towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 22% in the village. 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
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
3.3% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 97% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 30% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 27% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Residents who moved in within the year account for 8.2%. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%.
Bigger households than 68% of UK towns: 2.4 people each on average
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.
At 3.7%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is in line with the figure across England’s towns. Census figures put households with dependent children at 26% in Leeming Bar.
Fewer households without a car or van than 80% of UK towns: 10%
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
Compared with 23% across England’s towns, 6% of households live in a flat or apartment here. Elsewhere, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
5.5% born outside the UK, fewer than in 60% 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
Where 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Leeming Bar has 97%. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (4.5%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.4%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 56%, a higher share than 86% 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: 95% of Leeming Bar · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
In Leeming Bar, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion, beside 37% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2.8%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Chinese (0.1%).
More married adults and civil partners than 82% of UK towns: 53%
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
26 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. On adults who have never married, Leeming Bar sits lower than 79% of UK towns: 28%. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 9.5%, from the figure across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 25%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Leeming Bar, 25% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 19% have no qualification at all (18%).
Leeming Bar and its 7 nearest towns: 5 of them are older
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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 Leeming Bar’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 Leeming Bar’s residents
What is the population of Leeming Bar?
The 2021 Census counted 1,063 people in Leeming Bar’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Leeming Bar?
The median age was 43.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Leeming Bar?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 5.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Leeming Bar?
39% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.9% didn’t answer.
Is Leeming Bar good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Leeming Bar’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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