Photo: Chris Morgan · CC BY-SA 2.0Younger than 92% of UK towns: half of Moorends is under 37.1
One-person households: 26%, below 83% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 5,194 residents and 2,059 households in Moorends. Households in detached houses account for 18%. On households in flats, Moorends sits lower than 86% of UK towns: 4.3%.
What the Census says about Moorends’s people
A town of families
35% of Moorends’s 2,059 households had dependent children in 2021, more than in 93% of UK towns. 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Moorends’s residents are under 37.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 13% are 15 to 24 and 15% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
+2% since 2011: slower than 75% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Moorends’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 4,600 people in 2011; 4,700 in 2024.
The biggest jump came in the year to mid-2016: 90 more people. The 65 and over group saw the biggest change (+14%), the 16 to 29 group the smallest (−5%).
15% of residents are 65 or over, below 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 5–9, with 7.4% of residents. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. 13% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 94% of UK towns. In Tickhill, the oldest of South Yorkshire’s towns by this measure, it is 35%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Moorends, 37.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Moorends, 5.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 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%.
By class, 15% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 41% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Higher than in just over four fifths of UK towns: 5.9% of adults are full-time students. Set beside that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
A larger share of households with dependent children than 93% of UK towns: 35%
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 typical household size is 2.5 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. On the census count, 2.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. The usual figure: 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Households without a car or van: 23%, a higher share than 83% 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
The share of households in terraced houses is 22%, against 24% across England’s towns. About one household in 4 lives without a car or van.
Residents whose main language is English make up 93% in Moorends, less than in 86% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK in Moorends comes in at 9.3%. To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (7.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%).
44% said they have no religion, more than in 72% 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: 90% of Moorends · South Yorkshire’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
90% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. The largest groups after White British are Other White (7.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.6%) and Indian (0.4%).
11% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 81% 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
Some 198 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Across England’s towns, unpaid carers come to 8.7%. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are common here: 38%, more than in 83% of UK towns. Married adults and civil partners: 44%, near enough the figure across England’s towns.
14% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 14% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 30% hold no qualification (18%).
Of 516 UK towns its size (4,000 to 7,000 people), the 42nd youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Bailrigg (18.9) and the oldest Barton on Sea (65.3). Nearest to Moorends in age: Thurcroft (37), Elvetham Heath (37), Finningley (37.2) and Stainforth (37.3).
Of the 7 towns nearest Moorends, 6 are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moorends | 5,194 | — | 37.1 | 15% | 35% |
| Thorne | 12,303 | 1.3 mi | 43 | 21% | 27% |
| Stainforth | 5,999 | 4 mi | 37.3 | 17% | 33% |
| Dunscroft and Hatfield | 14,000 | 4.7 mi | 45.1 | 22% | 27% |
| Rawcliffe | 1,580 | 4.7 mi | 47 | 22% | 27% |
| Crowle | 3,969 | 5.1 mi | 47.6 | 24% | 27% |
| Snaith | 3,557 | 5.1 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 28% |
| Hatfield Woodhouse | 2,208 | 6 mi | 35.4 | 4.6% | 31% |
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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.
- “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 Moorends’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Moorends’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 4,756 people in 2021, against 5,194 in the built-up area.
- 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 Moorends’s residents
What is the population of Moorends?
The 2021 Census counted 5,194 people in Moorends’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 4,700 people in mid-2024, 2% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Moorends?
The median age was 37.1 at the 2021 Census, younger than 92% of UK towns. 13% of residents were 15 to 24 and 15% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Moorends?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across South Yorkshire’s towns. 9.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Moorends?
44% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Moorends good for families?
35% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Moorends’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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