Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Blaxton is over 53.3, older than 94% of UK towns
Against a figure of 44% across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners in Blaxton comes in at 57%. The share of households in detached houses stands at 61%. Households in flats are rarer here than in 90% of UK towns. There were 384 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 849 residents.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 96% of UK towns: 7.6%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 70–74 than any other five-year age: one in ten residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. In Blaxton, 30% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Fewer full-time students than 92% of UK towns: 3.7%
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 Blaxton, 34% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 20% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are scarce here: 6.7%, fewer than in 90% of UK towns. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
A lower share of shared households of unrelated adults than 97% of UK towns, at 1.3%
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.
The figure for one-person households is 29% in Blaxton and 30% across England’s towns. Typically, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Here, 22% of households have dependent children.
Below 96% of UK towns: 6.5% of households live in a terraced house
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 13% of households have no car or van, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%.
Only 2.6% of Blaxton’s residents were born outside the UK
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 share of residents whose main language is English tops 99% of UK towns: 100%. Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.2%) and in Africa (0.6%).
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 62%, a higher share than 96% 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 Blaxton · South Yorkshire’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White British, the largest groups are Mixed or multiple (3.3%), Other White (0.9%) and African (0.6%). As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. 32% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 90% of UK towns. At the same time, in Blaxton, 94% of residents describe themselves as White British, beside 73% across England’s towns.
Blaxton sits below 98% of UK towns for adults who have never married (23%)
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
Set against 8.7% across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care in Blaxton. Across the comparison, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 31 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week.
Degree-level qualifications: 24% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 24% of adults in Blaxton, 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification, against 18%.
Blaxton sits below 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaxton | 849 | — | 53.3 | 30% | 22% |
| Finningley | 5,919 | 1.1 mi | 37.2 | 13% | 39% |
| Auckley | 1,336 | 1.5 mi | 56.1 | 32% | 20% |
| Branton | 1,823 | 2.2 mi | 49.8 | 27% | 22% |
| Hatfield Woodhouse | 2,208 | 3.3 mi | 35.4 | 4.6% | 31% |
| New Rossington and Rossington | 13,911 | 3.8 mi | 40.8 | 19% | 30% |
| Armthorpe | 14,161 | 4 mi | 43.3 | 21% | 27% |
| Bawtry | 3,408 | 4.7 mi | 50.5 | 28% | 22% |
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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 Blaxton’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 Blaxton’s residents
What is the population of Blaxton?
The 2021 Census counted 849 people in Blaxton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Blaxton?
The median age was 53.3 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Blaxton?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across South Yorkshire’s towns. 2.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Blaxton?
32% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Blaxton good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Blaxton’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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