Photo: Michael Jagger · CC BY-SA 2.0Staithes sits above 99% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (98%)
2.2% of households live in a flat or apartment; across England’s towns the figure is 23%. At 39%, the share of households in terraced houses is higher than in 94% of UK towns. Staithes had 778 residents in 367 households at the 2021 Census. In Staithes, just over a fifth of households have dependent children.
Staithes is older than 86% of UK towns: a median age of 50.2
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
70–74 is the most common age band: 9.7% of residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Locally, 28% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year: 7.5%, a lower share than 75% 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%.
By class, 18% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 36% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). 4.8% of adults are full-time students. The share of residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns is 11%.
In Staithes, 36% of households are one person living alone, more than in 92% 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.
A household here has 2.1 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%.
13% of households live in a detached house, fewer than in 88% 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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van in Staithes comes in at 25%. Households in detached houses: 21% across England’s towns, for comparison.
1.4% of residents were born outside the UK, below 99% 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, Staithes has 100%. Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in the Middle East and Asia (0.5%) or in EU countries (0.4%).
52% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 64% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 98% of Staithes · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 37% across England’s towns, 40% of residents said they have no religion in Staithes. On average, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Fewer adults who have never married than 64% 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
Married adults and civil partners: 46% here and 44% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers account for 9.2%.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 17% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 17% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 27% hold no qualification (18%).
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Staithes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staithes | 778 | — | 50.2 | 28% | 22% |
| Loftus | 4,273 | 3.8 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 25% |
| Carlin How | 1,196 | 4.6 mi | 41 | 18% | 26% |
| Brotton | 5,399 | 6 mi | 46.9 | 24% | 26% |
| Lingdale | 1,323 | 6.8 mi | 48 | 24% | 22% |
| Skelton (Redcar and Cleveland) | 6,895 | 7.5 mi | 44.6 | 21% | 28% |
| Boosbeck | 1,124 | 7.6 mi | 40.5 | 16% | 31% |
| Saltburn-by-the-Sea | 5,874 | 7.9 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 19% |
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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 Staithes’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 Staithes’s residents
What is the population of Staithes?
The 2021 Census counted 778 people in Staithes’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Staithes?
The median age was 50.2 at the 2021 Census. 9.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Staithes?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 1.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Staithes?
40% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Staithes good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Staithes’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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