Photo: Original uploader was MRacer at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer young people than 99% of UK towns: 6% are 15 to 24
By its share of households in detached houses (54%), Stainton is above 93% of UK towns. Locally, 8.6% of households live in a terraced house. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 21% here, fewer than in 91% of UK towns. The village is home to 1,817 residents in 808 households, by the 2021 Census.
Older than 79% of UK towns: half of Stainton is over 48.8
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 7.8% of residents. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in just over four fifths of UK towns. 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
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.
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%.
Nothing unusual on residents who moved in within the year: 11%, close to the figure across England’s towns. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 83% 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.
Set against 30% across England’s towns, 28% of households are one person living alone in Stainton. For Stainton, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 1.7%.
Stainton sits below 94% of UK towns for households without a car or van (7.3%)
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
2.9% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Households without a car or van make up 24% across England’s towns.
2.9% of residents were born outside the UK, below 92% 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 abroad were most often born in the Middle East and Asia (1.6%), then in EU countries (0.9%). At 99%, the share of residents whose main language is English is higher than in 86% of UK towns. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 77% of UK towns: 54%
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: 94% of Stainton · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 37% across England’s towns, 38% of residents said they have no religion in Stainton. Meanwhile, more residents who describe themselves as White British than in 71% of UK towns: 94%. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison. 1.8% of residents are Muslim.
Fewer adults who have never married than 63% of UK towns: 30%
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 giving 50 hours or more a week: 39. Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership; in Stainton, 49%.
37% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 37% of Stainton’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification (18%).
Around Stainton, 1 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stainton | 1,817 | — | 48.8 | 27% | 21% |
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 23,352 | 2 mi | 39.5 | 19% | 28% |
| Ingleby Barwick | 23,380 | 2.3 mi | 38.2 | 11% | 43% |
| Middlesbrough | 148,232 | 2.4 mi | 37.5 | 17% | 30% |
| Egglescliffe | 10,250 | 3.8 mi | 46 | 23% | 28% |
| Yarm | 9,601 | 4.1 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 26% |
| Stokesley | 4,906 | 4.4 mi | 54.2 | 32% | 20% |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 84,824 | 4.6 mi | 40.6 | 19% | 28% |
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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 Stainton’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 Stainton’s residents
What is the population of Stainton?
The 2021 Census counted 1,817 people in Stainton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stainton?
The median age was 48.8 at the 2021 Census. 6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stainton?
94% 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 Stainton?
38% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.8% were Muslim and 4.5% didn’t answer.
Is Stainton good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stainton’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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