Photo: Marathon · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 94% of UK towns: half of Middleham is over 53.3
Compared with 23% across England’s towns, 4.8% of households live in a flat or apartment here. Few places have so few residents with no religion: 32% here, fewer than in 89% of UK towns. Middleham’s 375 households held 776 residents at the 2021 Census. Households with dependent children account for 16%.
Middleham ranks above 91% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 30%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
60–64 is the most common age band: one in ten residents, 1.9 times the share across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 15 to 24 at 8.7% in Middleham.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Middleham ranks below 99% of UK towns on full-time students: 1.7%
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%.
A third of Middleham’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 29% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 10% of the total.
More one-person households than 95% of UK towns: 38%
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.
The average household has 2.1 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Few places have as many shared households of unrelated adults: 4% here, more than in 92% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 30% of households are one person living alone.
A higher share of households in detached houses than 59% of UK towns, at 33%
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 are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 24%. 4.8% of households live in a flat, less than in 84% of UK towns; 33% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. Census figures put households without a car or van at 15% in Middleham.
Residents whose main language is English: 98%, a higher share than 68% 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 born outside the UK: 5.8% here and 18% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (3.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%).
Middleham ranks above 97% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 63%
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 Middleham · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (0.5%) and African (0.1%). 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 88% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 46% across England’s towns.
In Middleham, 29% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 74% 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
22 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Across the comparison, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 52%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 72% of UK towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.6%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Among adults, 30% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 30% of Middleham’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification (18%).
A younger town than 2 of the 7 around it: Middleham
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 Middleham’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 Middleham’s residents
What is the population of Middleham?
The 2021 Census counted 776 people in Middleham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Middleham?
The median age was 53.3 at the 2021 Census. 8.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Middleham?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 5.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Middleham?
32% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Middleham good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Middleham’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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