Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0A village of detached houses: 83% of households live in one
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Here, 63% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. A household here has 2.6 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4.
A median age of 50.2: Warthill is older than 86% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
25% of Warthill is 65 or over, against 22% across North Yorkshire’s towns and 18% across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 8.8%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
In Warthill, 4% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 84% 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%.
38% of Warthill’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 13% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The census found that 8.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier locally. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
In Warthill, 23% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 94% 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: 3.6%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison. Locally, 33% of households have dependent children.
Warthill ranks below 99% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 4.8%
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
6% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns.
Warthill sits below 88% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (3.2%)
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 whose main language is English: 97%, below 66% of UK towns. For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in the rest of Europe (1.4%).
A lower share of residents with no religion than 98% of UK towns, at 25%
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 Warthill · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (3.2%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and Indian (0.5%). As a reference point, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 68%, more than in 99% of UK towns. What’s more, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British; across England’s towns the figure is 73%.
Below 99% of UK towns: 19% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
Across Warthill, 9.6% of residents give unpaid care. The benchmark for adults who have never married across England’s towns: 39%.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 38%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Warthill, 38%, and 16% have none, against 18%.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Warthill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warthill | 216 | — | 50.2 | 25% | 33% |
| Stockton on the Forest | 1,018 | 1.2 mi | 47.4 | 24% | 25% |
| Dunnington | 3,256 | 1.9 mi | 53.4 | 34% | 24% |
| Stamford Bridge | 4,487 | 2.6 mi | 49.7 | 28% | 25% |
| Osbaldwick | 2,313 | 3.4 mi | 43.2 | 20% | 21% |
| Huntington | 12,420 | 3.8 mi | 48.2 | 27% | 23% |
| Strensall | 6,060 | 3.9 mi | 44.2 | 19% | 32% |
| Wilberfoss | 2,015 | 4.4 mi | 46.5 | 25% | 30% |
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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 Warthill’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 Warthill’s residents
What is the population of Warthill?
The 2021 Census counted 216 people in Warthill’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Warthill?
The median age was 50.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Warthill?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 3.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Warthill?
25% said they had no religion and 68% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Warthill good for families?
33% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Warthill’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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