Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 91% of UK towns: half of Pickhill is over 51.6
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 415 residents and 177 households in Pickhill. Across Pickhill, 97% of residents describe themselves as White British. Here 63% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 44%.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 93% of UK towns: 7.9%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 60–64: one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 68% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 0.6%
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%.
The figure for residents who moved in within the year is 12% in Pickhill and 11% across England’s towns. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Pickhill sits below 99% of UK towns for one-person households (19%)
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 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Pickhill has fewer households with dependent children than 73% of UK towns, at 25%. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%.
Pickhill sits below 99% of UK towns for households without a car or van (2.8%)
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
The figure for households in detached houses is 74% in Pickhill and 21% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 24% of households have no car or van. Households in terraced houses: a tenth of the total.
Only 2.9% of Pickhill’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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.2%) or in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK. The share of residents whose main language is English is 98%, against 90% across England’s towns.
Pickhill ranks below 97% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 27%
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: 97% of Pickhill · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents who describe themselves as Christian (67%), Pickhill is above 99% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents with no religion come to 37%.
Adults who have never married make up 23% in Pickhill, less than in 97% 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
Against a figure of 8.7% across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers in Pickhill comes in at 7.6%. As a reference point, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Among adults, 39% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Pickhill, 39%, and 11% have none, against 18%.
Nearby, 1 of 7 towns have older populations than Pickhill
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 Pickhill’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 Pickhill’s residents
What is the population of Pickhill?
The 2021 Census counted 415 people in Pickhill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pickhill?
The median age was 51.6 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pickhill?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pickhill?
27% said they had no religion and 67% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Pickhill good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Pickhill’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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