Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 96% of UK towns: half of Sheriff Hutton is over 54.5
25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, against 39% across England’s towns. Sheriff Hutton counted 850 residents and 396 households at the 2021 Census. Households with dependent children: 18% of the total. Few places have so few households without a car or van: 7% here, fewer than in 95% of UK towns.
33% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 95% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here 7.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across England’s towns is 12%. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Full-time students: 3.2%, a lower share than 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%.
6.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, against 11% across England’s towns. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 87% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 2.5%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Locally, 30% of households are one person living alone.
Households in detached houses make up 53% in Sheriff Hutton, more than in 92% of UK towns
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: 13% here and 24% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. In Sheriff Hutton, 4.5% of households live in a flat or apartment.
A smaller share of residents born outside the UK than 90% of UK towns: 3.1%
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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in Africa (0.7%). The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. More residents whose main language is English than in 99% of UK towns: 100%.
In Sheriff Hutton, 97% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 98% 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: 97% of Sheriff Hutton · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
54% of residents describe themselves as Christian; across England’s towns the figure is 46%. By way of comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Residents with no religion: two fifths of the total.
Married adults and civil partners make up 57% in Sheriff Hutton, more than in 93% 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
The share of unpaid carers is 10%, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, married adults and civil partners come to 44%. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 27.
A degree-level qualification for 40% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 40% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 15% hold no qualification (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Sheriff Hutton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheriff Hutton | 850 | — | 54.5 | 33% | 18% |
| Strensall | 6,060 | 3.9 mi | 44.2 | 19% | 32% |
| Huby (Hambleton) | 1,056 | 5.2 mi | 46.3 | 22% | 30% |
| Haxby | 10,176 | 5.9 mi | 52.7 | 33% | 23% |
| Wigginton | 1,422 | 5.9 mi | 51.4 | 28% | 26% |
| Stockton on the Forest | 1,018 | 6.4 mi | 47.4 | 24% | 25% |
| Huntington | 12,420 | 7.3 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 23% |
| Easingwold | 5,036 | 7.7 mi | 51.8 | 31% | 20% |
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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 Sheriff Hutton’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 Sheriff Hutton’s residents
What is the population of Sheriff Hutton?
The 2021 Census counted 850 people in Sheriff Hutton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Sheriff Hutton?
The median age was 54.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Sheriff Hutton?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 3.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Sheriff Hutton?
40% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Sheriff Hutton good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Sheriff Hutton’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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