Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Kilsby is over 52.2, older than 92% of UK towns
In Kilsby, 23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, beside 39% across England’s towns. Across Kilsby, 56% of households live in a detached house. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 87% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 1,341 people lived in the village, in 589 households.
What the Census says about Kilsby’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Kilsby’s residents are under 52.2 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).
Kilsby: 32% of residents are 65 or over, above 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (8.7%), Kilsby is below 82% of UK towns. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
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.
Fewer full-time students than 73% of UK towns: 4.3%
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%.
By class, 43% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 11%. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Kilsby households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 69% 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.
One-person households make up 28%, against 30% across England’s towns. Locally, 2.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
4.5% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 98% 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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, one in ten households have no car or van in Kilsby. Few places have so few households in flats: 6.7% here, fewer than in nearly three quarters of UK towns.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 64% of UK towns: 98%
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
In Kilsby, 5.7% of residents were born outside the UK, beside 18% across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (2.5%) and in Africa (1.1%). Across the comparison, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 82% of UK towns, at 55%
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 Kilsby · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
On religion, 36% answered “no religion” and 55% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.9%), Mixed or multiple (2.2%) and Indian (0.9%).
Kilsby ranks above 80% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 53%
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
At 8.8%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across England’s towns. Some 35 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Set beside that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 37%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 37% of adults in Kilsby (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 15% (England’s towns: 18%).
1 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Kilsby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilsby | 1,341 | — | 52.2 | 32% | 23% |
| Crick | 2,245 | 2 mi | 43.1 | 18% | 35% |
| Onley | 1,667 | 3 mi | 37.9 | 9.7% | 26% |
| Braunston | 1,519 | 3.3 mi | 52.4 | 31% | 23% |
| Clifton upon Dunsmore | 1,216 | 3.7 mi | 50.3 | 27% | 22% |
| Rugby | 78,130 | 4.1 mi | 39.2 | 17% | 30% |
| West Haddon | 1,985 | 4.4 mi | 42.8 | 14% | 39% |
| Long Buckby | 3,821 | 4.7 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 26% |
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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 Kilsby’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 Kilsby’s residents
What is the population of Kilsby?
The 2021 Census counted 1,341 people in Kilsby’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Kilsby?
The median age was 52.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Kilsby?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 5.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Kilsby?
36% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Kilsby good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Kilsby’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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