Photo: Peter Brooks · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Stocksfield is over 54, older than 95% of UK towns
By its share of households without a car or van (7.6%), Stocksfield is below 93% of UK towns. 1,944 residents in 874 households: that is Stocksfield at the 2021 Census. In Stocksfield, just over a fifth of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Lower than in 99% of UK towns: 0.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
What the Census says about Stocksfield’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Stocksfield’s residents are under 54 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).
In Stocksfield, 32% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 94% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: nearly one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Locally, 7.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
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.
Stocksfield sits below 88% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (6.8%)
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%.
Just over half of Stocksfield’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 12% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns is 11%. Census figures put full-time students at 4.8% here.
23% of households have dependent children, below 83% 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.
Here 27% of households are one person living alone, where the figure across England’s towns is 30%. As a reference point, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. There are 2.2 people in the average household.
In Stocksfield, 7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 72% 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
38% of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. The comparison figure for households in flats is 23% across England’s towns. The census found that 18% of households live in a terraced house in Stocksfield.
Residents born outside the UK: 3.2%, a lower share than 88% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%). Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK. Few places have as many residents whose main language is English: 99% here, more than in 95% of UK towns.
Stocksfield: 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 92% 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 Stocksfield · Northumberland’s towns 96% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White British are Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Pakistani (0.3%). On residents who describe themselves as Christian, Stocksfield sits higher than 93% of UK towns: 59%. The usual figure: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The figure for residents with no religion is 35% in Stocksfield and 37% across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners: 63%, a higher share than 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
44 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Stocksfield sits close to the norm on unpaid carers: 9.3%, about the same as across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 50% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 50% of adults in Stocksfield (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 11% (England’s towns: 18%).
Every neighbour of Stocksfield has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stocksfield | 1,944 | — | 54 | 32% | 23% |
| Prudhoe | 10,285 | 2.2 mi | 45.7 | 21% | 27% |
| Ovingham | 1,155 | 2.4 mi | 50.6 | 27% | 23% |
| Chopwell | 2,530 | 3.7 mi | 43.6 | 22% | 20% |
| Wylam | 1,661 | 4 mi | 51.1 | 28% | 25% |
| Blackhall Mill | 1,528 | 4 mi | 47.3 | 25% | 23% |
| High Spen | 1,933 | 4.7 mi | 49 | 24% | 25% |
| Crawcrook and Greenside | 7,544 | 4.7 mi | 45.6 | 23% | 25% |
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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 Stocksfield’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 Stocksfield’s residents
What is the population of Stocksfield?
The 2021 Census counted 1,944 people in Stocksfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stocksfield?
The median age was 54 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stocksfield?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 96% across Northumberland’s towns. 3.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stocksfield?
35% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Stocksfield good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stocksfield’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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