Photo: Chris Sayles · CC BY-SA 2.0Bawtry is older than 87% of UK towns: a median age of 50.5
29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, against 22% in Bawtry. The town had 3,408 residents in 1,620 households at the 2021 Census. In Bawtry, 36% of households are one person living alone. More households in detached houses than in 86% of UK towns: 46%.
What the Census says about Bawtry’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Bawtry’s residents are under 50.5 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% 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).
28% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 84% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up 9.4% of residents, against 12% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. The largest age band is 55–59: 7.7% of residents.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Bawtry, 50.5. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
Bawtry sits below 83% of UK towns for full-time students (4%)
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%.
In Bawtry, 39% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 21% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. On the census count, 9.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households here average 2.1 people, below 92% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against South Yorkshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 2%, against 4.3% across England’s towns.
A smaller share of households in terraced houses than 77% of UK towns: 14%
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
Here 16% of households have no car or van, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. For Bawtry, the census puts households in flats at 10%.
Bawtry ranks below 73% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 4.3%
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
Here 99% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.8%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%). By way of comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 58% in Bawtry, more than in 90% 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: 94% of Bawtry · South Yorkshire’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion is 35%, against 37% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%. The census found that 94% of residents describe themselves as White British in Bawtry.
Below 84% of UK towns: 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
Married people and civil partners make up 49% of adults, against 44% across England’s towns. Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 92 residents. Elsewhere, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 35%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Bawtry, 35%, and 17% have none, against 18%.
Ranked by age, 158th oldest of 749 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 18.9 in Bailrigg to 64.6 in Milford on Sea. Nearest to Bawtry in age: Alderholt (50.4), Hurworth-on-Tees (50.5), Saxilby (50.5) and Higham (50.5).
Bawtry sits below 3 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bawtry | 3,408 | — | 50.5 | 28% | 22% |
| Harworth and Bircotes | 8,885 | 1.9 mi | 39.6 | 18% | 29% |
| Ranskill | 1,435 | 3.4 mi | 48.4 | 27% | 27% |
| New Rossington and Rossington | 13,911 | 3.5 mi | 40.8 | 19% | 30% |
| Tickhill | 4,909 | 3.7 mi | 55.3 | 35% | 20% |
| Finningley | 5,919 | 4.1 mi | 37.2 | 13% | 39% |
| Blyth | 1,264 | 4.3 mi | 52.1 | 31% | 23% |
| Auckley | 1,336 | 5 mi | 56.1 | 32% | 20% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “South Yorkshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in South Yorkshire (or England), summed the same way as Bawtry’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 Bawtry’s residents
What is the population of Bawtry?
The 2021 Census counted 3,408 people in Bawtry’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bawtry?
The median age was 50.5 at the 2021 Census, older than 87% of UK towns. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bawtry?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across South Yorkshire’s towns. 4.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bawtry?
35% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.9% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Bawtry good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bawtry’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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