Photo: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 59.1: Threshfield is older than 99% of UK towns
Households with dependent children: 17% here and 29% across England’s towns. Census day 2021: 631 residents and 294 households in Threshfield. The census found that 1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in the village. Lower than in 95% of UK towns: 28% of residents said they have no religion.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 40% in Threshfield, more than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
70–74 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.9 times the share across England’s towns. Few places have so few residents aged 15 to 24: 8.9% here, fewer than in 78% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 87 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 make up 4.4% in Threshfield, less than in 69% 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%.
Here one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
Threshfield ranks above 96% of UK towns on one-person households: 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.
In Threshfield the average household is 2.1 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. One-person households make up 30% across England’s towns.
7.6% of households have no car or van, below 93% 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
Here 32% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. By way of comparison, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns. Households in terraced houses: just over a third of the total. 3.8% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 89% of UK towns.
2.1% born outside the UK, fewer than in 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.3%). For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%. Set against 90% across England’s towns, 100% of residents have English as their main language in Threshfield.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 59% in Threshfield, more than in 93% 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: 96% of Threshfield · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%. To put it in context, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Mixed or multiple (2.9%), Other White (1%) and Caribbean (0.3%).
In Threshfield, 23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 98% 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
12 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. At 52%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 73% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 39%. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns: 9.1%.
Degree-level qualifications: 41% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 41% of its adults qualified to degree level, Threshfield compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 16% hold no qualification (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Threshfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threshfield | 631 | — | 59.1 | 40% | 17% |
| Grassington | 1,107 | 0.6 mi | 58.6 | 39% | 15% |
| Embsay | 1,723 | 6.5 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 27% |
| Gargrave | 1,502 | 7.2 mi | 56.5 | 36% | 17% |
| Skipton | 15,050 | 7.8 mi | 45.9 | 24% | 23% |
| Carleton-in-Craven | 1,060 | 9 mi | 50.8 | 25% | 23% |
| Low Bradley | 1,203 | 9.6 mi | 55.9 | 33% | 21% |
| Hellifield | 1,478 | 9.7 mi | 49.6 | 27% | 24% |
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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 Threshfield’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 Threshfield’s residents
What is the population of Threshfield?
The 2021 Census counted 631 people in Threshfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Threshfield?
The median age was 59.1 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 40% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Threshfield?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 2.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Threshfield?
28% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 12% didn’t answer.
Is Threshfield good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Threshfield’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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