Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 85% of UK towns: 9.5% of households have no car or van
Flats are home to 5.1% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Earls Barton’s population at 6,067, in 2,597 households. The census found that 46% of residents said they have no religion here. Lower than in 73% of UK towns: 27% of households are one person living alone.
What the Census says about Earls Barton’s people
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Earls Barton at 5,400 in 2011 and 6,400 in 2024, up 19%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 84% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Faster growth than 84% of UK towns: Earls Barton changed by +19% since 2011
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Earls Barton’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 5,400 people in 2011; 6,400 in 2024.
Of the age groups, 65 and over changed most (+48%) and 45 to 64 least (+9%). No year added more people than mid-2017 to mid-2018: 220.
Earls Barton is younger than 61% of UK towns: a median age of 43.1
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. The largest age band is 50–54: 7.3% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Earls Barton, 43.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Earls Barton: 5% of adults are full-time students, above 58% 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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 9.8%, against 11% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 79% of UK towns: 1.8%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Northamptonshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households with dependent children are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 29%. As a yardstick, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
Earls Barton ranks above 65% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 35%
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
Across Earls Barton, a fifth of households live in a terraced house. 5.1% of households live in a flat, less than in 82% of UK towns; 35% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
Only 5.8% of Earls Barton’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Just over a tenth of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later, against 21% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.7%) and in Africa (1.3%).
In Earls Barton, 47% of residents describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 70% 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: 92% of Earls Barton · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 92%, against 73% across England’s towns. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%. Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (3.4%), Mixed or multiple (2.1%) and African (0.9%).
Married adults and civil partners make up 50% in Earls Barton, more than in 63% 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
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 8.9%, about the same as across England’s towns. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Adults who have never married account for 31%.
33% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Earls Barton counts 33% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 14% have no qualification (18%).
624 UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000 people: this is the 186th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Bailrigg (18.9) and the oldest Barton on Sea (65.3). Nearest to Earls Barton in age: Treherbert (43), Blidworth (43.1), Southminster (43.1) and Stokenchurch (43.1).
Around Earls Barton, 5 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earls Barton | 6,067 | — | 43.1 | 21% | 29% |
| Great Doddington | 1,147 | 1.6 mi | 51.8 | 29% | 23% |
| Cogenhoe | 1,475 | 2.5 mi | 49.9 | 26% | 25% |
| Sywell and Overstone | 1,636 | 3 mi | 57.2 | 34% | 17% |
| Wellingborough | 54,421 | 3.3 mi | 38.6 | 16% | 32% |
| Wollaston | 3,564 | 3.5 mi | 44.7 | 21% | 30% |
| Bozeat | 2,166 | 4.5 mi | 50.2 | 25% | 24% |
| Moulton | 4,953 | 4.6 mi | 38.9 | 19% | 34% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Northamptonshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Northamptonshire (or England), summed the same way as Earls Barton’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Earls Barton’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 6,344 people in 2021, against 6,067 in the built-up area.
- 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 Earls Barton’s residents
What is the population of Earls Barton?
The 2021 Census counted 6,067 people in Earls Barton’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 6,400 people in mid-2024, 19% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Earls Barton?
The median age was 43.1 at the 2021 Census, younger than 61% of UK towns. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Earls Barton?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 5.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Earls Barton?
46% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Earls Barton good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Earls Barton’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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