Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 98% of UK towns: half of Corbridge is over 57.9
17% of households have dependent children (England’s towns: 29%). Here, nearly two in five households are one person living alone. Few places have as many residents who describe themselves as White British: 97% here, more than in 97% of UK towns. Corbridge counted 2,888 residents and 1,435 households at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about Corbridge’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Corbridge’s residents are under 57.9 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 38% 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) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Corbridge changed by +7% from 2011 to 2024, behind 53% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Corbridge’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 3,200 people in 2011; 3,400 in 2024.
The largest rise in a single year came from mid-2022 to mid-2023: 140 people. By age, the 65 and over group changed most (+48%) and the 16 to 29 group least (−34%).
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 98% of UK towns: 38%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, against 5.9% in Corbridge. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Corbridge, 57.9. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
Corbridge sits below 98% of UK towns for full-time students (3.1%)
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, 45% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). On the census count, 7.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Households here average 2 people, below 99% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Northumberland’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 1.5%, against 4.3% across England’s towns.
29% of households live in a terraced house, a share 81% of UK towns don’t reach
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
The share of households without a car or van is 17%, against 24% across England’s towns. On the census count, 14% of households live in a flat or apartment. Lower than in 51% of UK towns: 29% of households live in a detached house.
2.9% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 92% 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 two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.6%). 100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% of UK towns. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%.
Corbridge ranks above 96% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 61%
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: 97% of Corbridge · Northumberland’s towns 96% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 34%, below 86% of UK towns. The wider picture: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
21% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 99% 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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 78 residents. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 54%, more than in 85% of UK towns. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. With unpaid carers at 9.8%, Corbridge is ahead of 62% of UK towns on that count.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 42% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
42% of Corbridge’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 14% have none (18%).
514 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000 people: this is the 16th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Keele (20.6), the youngest, and West Chiltington (63.1), the oldest. Nearest to Corbridge in age: Beaminster (57.7), West Parley (57.7), Westward Ho! (58) and Settle (58.2).
The towns around Corbridge are all younger
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Northumberland’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Northumberland (or England), summed the same way as Corbridge’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. Corbridge’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 3,092 people in 2021, against 2,888 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 Corbridge’s residents
What is the population of Corbridge?
The 2021 Census counted 2,888 people in Corbridge’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 3,400 people in mid-2024, 7% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Corbridge?
The median age was 57.9 at the 2021 Census, older than 98% of UK towns. 5.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 38% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Corbridge?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 96% across Northumberland’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Corbridge?
34% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Corbridge good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Corbridge’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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