Photo: David Gearing · CC BY-SA 2.096% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 92% of UK towns don’t reach
Unpaid carers make up 11% of residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. Meanwhile, on one-person households, Cleobury Mortimer sits lower than 76% of UK towns: 27%. This Shropshire town had 2,963 residents and 1,267 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 46.5 (older than nearly two thirds of UK towns). Households without a car or van: a tenth of the total.
Half of Cleobury Mortimer is over 46.5, older than 65% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
24% of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. The largest age band is 50–54: 8.1% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Cleobury Mortimer, 46.5. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
4.2% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 77% 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%.
Nearly a third of Cleobury Mortimer’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 26% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Locally, 8.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2%, a lower share than 71% 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.
Households average 2.4 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. On average, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Across Cleobury Mortimer, 28% of households have dependent children.
Below 73% of UK towns: 6.9% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Households in detached houses: 36%, above just over two thirds of UK towns. Locally, a fifth of households live in a terraced house. Set beside that, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 96% of UK towns, at 2.5%
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 (0.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.6%). The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 98% of UK towns.
Cleobury Mortimer: 55% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 81% 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 Cleobury Mortimer · Shropshire’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
38% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. Next after White British come Other White (1.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Indian (0.2%). Elsewhere, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Cleobury Mortimer sits above 67% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (51%)
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
Across England’s towns, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; in Cleobury Mortimer, 30%. On average, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 30%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 30% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 19% hold no qualification (18%).
514 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000 people: this is the 238th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Keele is the youngest (20.6); West Chiltington the oldest (63.1). Nearest to Cleobury Mortimer in age: Upper Tean (46.5), Willington (46.5), Fishbourne (46.5) and Sutton-in-Craven (46.6).
No nearby town is as young as Cleobury Mortimer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleobury Mortimer | 2,963 | — | 46.5 | 24% | 28% |
| Highley | 3,305 | 6.3 mi | 48.2 | 25% | 25% |
| Tenbury Wells | 3,936 | 6.8 mi | 50.8 | 30% | 24% |
| Bewdley | 8,285 | 7 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 20% |
| Alveley | 1,505 | 7.9 mi | 56.3 | 37% | 20% |
| Stourport-on-Severn | 20,302 | 8.9 mi | 50.2 | 28% | 23% |
| Wolverley | 1,208 | 9.5 mi | 53.7 | 35% | 23% |
| Ludlow | 10,037 | 9.7 mi | 52.2 | 32% | 18% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Cleobury Mortimer’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 Cleobury Mortimer’s residents
What is the population of Cleobury Mortimer?
The 2021 Census counted 2,963 people in Cleobury Mortimer’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cleobury Mortimer?
The median age was 46.5 at the 2021 Census, older than 65% of UK towns. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cleobury Mortimer?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Shropshire’s towns. 2.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cleobury Mortimer?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Cleobury Mortimer good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cleobury Mortimer’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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