Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Upper Poppleton is older than 90% of UK towns: a median age of 51.1
Adults who have never married: 21% here and 39% across England’s towns. 3,520 residents in 1,473 households: that is Upper Poppleton at the 2021 Census. Census figures put households in flats at 1.8% here. Households in detached houses are more common here than in 98% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Upper Poppleton’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Upper Poppleton’s residents are under 51.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 32% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Upper Poppleton: 32% of residents are 65 or over, above 94% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: 8.1% of residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Upper Poppleton, 51.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
A higher share of full-time students than 91% of UK towns, at 6.9%
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Upper Poppleton, 52% and 13%. Residents who moved in within the year account for 8.3%. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Upper Poppleton sits below 85% of UK towns for one-person households (25%)
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.
Households in Upper Poppleton hold 2.4 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). By contrast, on shared households of unrelated adults, Upper Poppleton sits lower than 78% of UK towns: 1.8%. As a yardstick, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Across Upper Poppleton, 27% of households have dependent children.
Below 96% of UK towns: 6.6% of households live in a terraced house
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 share of households without a car or van trails nearly three quarters of UK towns: 11%. Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 82% of UK towns, at 99%
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Recent arrivals (2017 or later) make up 20% of those born abroad (England’s towns: 21%). As a yardstick, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Locally, 5.4% of residents were born outside the UK.
Above 92% of UK towns: 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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: 95% of Upper Poppleton · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns and 73% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. The census found that just over a third of residents said they have no religion in Upper Poppleton.
Married adults and civil partners make up 63% in Upper Poppleton, more than in 99% 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
97 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Typically, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. More unpaid carers than in nearly two thirds of UK towns: 9.9%.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 53%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Upper Poppleton counts 53% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 11% have no qualification (18%). A levels top the qualifications of 14%, many of them students on the way to a degree.
128th oldest of 749 UK towns of 2,500 to 5,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Milford on Sea the oldest (64.6). Nearest to Upper Poppleton in age: Burry Port (51), Appleby-in-Westmorland (51.1), Markfield (51.1) and Prestbury (51.1).
2 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Upper Poppleton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Poppleton | 3,520 | — | 51.1 | 32% | 27% |
| Skelton (York) | 1,380 | 1.3 mi | 48.4 | 28% | 26% |
| York | 141,696 | 2.9 mi | 36 | 16% | 24% |
| Huntington | 12,420 | 3.4 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 23% |
| Wigginton | 1,422 | 3.5 mi | 51.4 | 28% | 26% |
| Haxby | 10,176 | 3.7 mi | 52.7 | 33% | 23% |
| Copmanthorpe | 3,671 | 4.6 mi | 50.3 | 29% | 27% |
| Bishopthorpe | 3,333 | 4.8 mi | 48.5 | 26% | 29% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Upper Poppleton’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 Upper Poppleton’s residents
What is the population of Upper Poppleton?
The 2021 Census counted 3,520 people in Upper Poppleton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Upper Poppleton?
The median age was 51.1 at the 2021 Census, older than 90% of UK towns. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Upper Poppleton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 5.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Upper Poppleton?
34% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Upper Poppleton good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Upper Poppleton’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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