Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Shared households of unrelated adults: 0.5%, a lower share than 99% of UK towns
Detached houses are home to 58% of households, against 21% across England’s towns. Still, households in terraced houses are rarer here than in 92% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Wistow was home to 965 people in 431 households. For Wistow, the census puts households with dependent children at 24%.
A median age of 47.5: Wistow is older than 72% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 65 and over is 18%; Wistow has 23%. Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.9% of the total.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
7.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 78% 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%.
The share of full-time students trails 69% of UK towns: 4.4%. To put it in context, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Smaller households than 78% of UK towns: 2.2 people on average
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.
31% of households are one person living alone (England’s towns: 30%).
Only 9.6% of households in Wistow have no car or van
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
Households in flats: 14%, above 65% of UK towns. Typically, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
In Wistow, 5% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 65% 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 share of residents whose main language is English is 98%, against 90% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (3.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%).
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 86% of UK towns: 56%
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 Wistow · North Yorkshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 37%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. As a reference point, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Here, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Married adults and civil partners: 55%, a higher share than 90% 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
19 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Across the comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Lower than in nearly two thirds of UK towns: 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Unpaid carers make up one in ten residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns.
Qualified to degree level: 39% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 39% of Wistow’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification (18%).
Median age: 3 of the 7 towns around Wistow are older
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Wistow’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 Wistow’s residents
What is the population of Wistow?
The 2021 Census counted 965 people in Wistow’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wistow?
The median age was 47.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wistow?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across North Yorkshire’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wistow?
37% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Wistow good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wistow’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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