Photo: Will Lovell · CC BY-SA 2.0Pytchley ranks below 97% of UK towns on households in flats: 1.9%
With a median age of 49.4, Pytchley is older than 82% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 497 residents and 207 households locally. In Pytchley, 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. A quarter of households are one person living alone, against 30% across England’s towns.
Below 89% of UK towns: 8.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, Pytchley has 25%. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
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.
Below 76% of UK towns: 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
Full-time students make up 5.1%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. For comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Pytchley sits below 93% of UK towns for shared households of unrelated adults (1.5%)
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.
At 2.4 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 58% of UK towns. The comparison figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 4.3% across England’s towns.
In Pytchley, 9.6% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 84% 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
Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%; Pytchley has 39%. The benchmark for households without a car or van across England’s towns: 24%. Households in terraced houses account for 14%.
Pytchley: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 73% 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 largest groups were born in EU countries (3.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.4%). Across the comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents born outside the UK: 7% here, more than in 56% of UK towns.
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 83% 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: 96% of Pytchley · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 37% across England’s towns, nearly two in five residents said they have no religion in Pytchley. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White British come to 73%. Residents who describe themselves as Christian account for 52%.
Married adults and civil partners make up 59% in Pytchley, more than in 96% 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
Unpaid carers make up 8%, close to the figure across England’s towns. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 11 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
Among adults, 32% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 32% of adults in Pytchley (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 17% (England’s towns: 18%).
No nearby town is as old as Pytchley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pytchley | 497 | — | 49.4 | 25% | 27% |
| Broughton | 1,982 | 1.9 mi | 48.1 | 24% | 24% |
| Burton Latimer | 10,440 | 2.4 mi | 38.4 | 16% | 34% |
| Kettering | 63,149 | 2.7 mi | 39.6 | 17% | 31% |
| Mawsley Village | 2,487 | 3.4 mi | 37 | 8.3% | 49% |
| Finedon | 4,554 | 4 mi | 46.8 | 24% | 23% |
| Wellingborough | 54,421 | 4.3 mi | 38.6 | 16% | 32% |
| Rothwell | 8,623 | 4.9 mi | 41.7 | 21% | 27% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Pytchley’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 Pytchley’s residents
What is the population of Pytchley?
The 2021 Census counted 497 people in Pytchley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pytchley?
The median age was 49.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pytchley?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pytchley?
39% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 8.5% didn’t answer.
Is Pytchley good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Pytchley’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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