Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.018% of residents are 15 to 24, more than in 98% of UK towns
Households in flats: 4.6%, below 85% of UK towns. At 40%, the share of married adults and civil partners is lower than in 90% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 6,983 residents in Albrighton, living in 2,313 households. Locally, 25% of households have dependent children.
What the Census says about Albrighton’s people
A town people move to
23% of residents gave a different address a year before the 2021 Census, 2.2 times the share across England’s towns. Students & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Half of Albrighton is under 39.3, younger than 84% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 20–24: just over one in ten residents, 1.8 times the share across England’s towns. Locally, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Albrighton, 39.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
43% women, 57% men
About 74 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Albrighton is a garrison town: service personnel living in barracks count as residents.
Residents who moved in within the year: 23%, a higher share than 99% of UK towns
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%.
The share of full-time students tops 95% of UK towns: 9.1%. The comparison figure for residents who moved in within the year is 11% across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 3.4%, a higher share than 85% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Shropshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
In Albrighton the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. The wider picture: 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Here, 29% of households are one person living alone.
Only 17% of households live in a terraced house in Albrighton
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 figure for households without a car or van is 14% in Albrighton and 24% across England’s towns. Households in detached houses account for 33%.
Only 95% of residents have English as their main language in Albrighton
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 9% in Albrighton. Elsewhere, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (4.6%) and in EU countries (2.7%).
Only 90% of residents describe themselves as White British in Albrighton
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: 90% of Albrighton · Shropshire’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The Muslim share of residents is 2.4%. At 37%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 73% of UK towns. Against a figure of 46% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian in Albrighton comes in at 50%.
41% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, a share 92% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Students and young renters account for much of that. 154 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Unpaid carers are rarer here than in 78% of UK towns.
31% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
15% of Albrighton’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 31% have one at degree level (34%). A levels top the qualifications of 24%, many of them students on the way to a degree.
Ranked by age, 58th youngest of 473 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Red Lodge is the youngest (30.9); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Albrighton in age: Abercynon (39.2), Huthwaite (39.3), Acrefair and Cefn-mawr (39.3) and South Kirkby (39.5).
Every neighbour of Albrighton has an older 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albrighton | 6,983 | — | 39.3 | 21% | 25% |
| Pattingham | 1,773 | 3.7 mi | 48.5 | 28% | 29% |
| Shifnal | 8,973 | 4 mi | 41.9 | 20% | 29% |
| Codsall | 11,867 | 4.2 mi | 46.9 | 25% | 28% |
| Perton | 9,302 | 4.8 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 25% |
| Brewood | 2,552 | 5.7 mi | 53 | 30% | 22% |
| Wheaton Aston | 1,995 | 5.9 mi | 51.6 | 30% | 22% |
| Coven | 2,399 | 6.4 mi | 53.7 | 32% | 20% |
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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.
- “Shropshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Shropshire (or England), summed the same way as Albrighton’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 Albrighton’s residents
What is the population of Albrighton?
The 2021 Census counted 6,983 people in Albrighton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Albrighton?
The median age was 39.3 at the 2021 Census, younger than 84% of UK towns. 18% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Albrighton?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Shropshire’s towns. 9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Albrighton?
37% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 2.4% were Muslim and 7% didn’t answer.
Is Albrighton good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Albrighton’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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