Photo: Philip Jeffrey · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in flats: 2.3%, a lower share than 96% of UK towns
With households with dependent children at 24%, Harpole is behind 79% of UK towns on that count. There were 593 households in the village at the 2021 Census, home to 1,349 residents. Here, one in ten households have no car or van. Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as Christian: 55% here, more than in four fifths of UK towns.
What the Census says about Harpole’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Harpole’s residents are under 50.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% 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).
Half of Harpole is over 50.5, older than 87% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
29% of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 15 to 24 stands at 8.4%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 95% of UK towns: 6.2%
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%.
4.2% of adults are full-time students, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 66% of UK towns
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.
Set against 4.3% across England’s towns, 2.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Harpole. The share of one-person households stands at 30%.
33% of households live in a detached house, more than in 62% 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
In Harpole, 21% of households live in a terraced house.
3.9% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 79% 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
Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language; in Harpole, 99%. Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.1%), then in the rest of Europe (0.7%).
Harpole sits above 86% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (96%)
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 Harpole · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.9%), Mixed or multiple (0.8%) and Caribbean (0.3%). Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 73% across England’s towns. Harpole has fewer residents with no religion than 71% of UK towns, at 37%.
Only 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Harpole
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 33 residents. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 53%, more than in 80% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. On unpaid carers, 9.6% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 29%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Harpole, 29% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 17% have no qualification at all (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Harpole, 1 are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harpole | 1,349 | — | 50.5 | 29% | 24% |
| Kislingbury | 1,323 | 0.8 mi | 46.6 | 23% | 28% |
| Bugbrooke | 3,040 | 2.2 mi | 43.4 | 21% | 32% |
| Nether Heyford | 1,504 | 2.4 mi | 51.3 | 28% | 26% |
| Flore | 1,452 | 3 mi | 47 | 24% | 29% |
| Weedon Bec | 2,856 | 4 mi | 45.1 | 22% | 27% |
| Collingtree and Milton Malsor | 1,514 | 4.2 mi | 48 | 21% | 29% |
| Northampton | 243,527 | 4.3 mi | 37 | 14% | 33% |
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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 Harpole’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 Harpole’s residents
What is the population of Harpole?
The 2021 Census counted 1,349 people in Harpole’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Harpole?
The median age was 50.5 at the 2021 Census. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Harpole?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Harpole?
37% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 6.7% didn’t answer.
Is Harpole good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Harpole’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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