Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.028% of households have no car or van, more than in 92% of UK towns
With married adults and civil partners at 40%, Worsbrough is behind 91% of UK towns on that count. At 1.7%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 85% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 8,840 residents and 4,001 households here. 13% of households live in a terraced house.
A change of +3% since 2011 leaves Worsbrough behind 73% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Worsbrough’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 9,400 people in 2011; 9,700 in 2024.
The 65 and over age group changed most (+11%) and the 16 to 29 least (−9%). No year added more people than mid-2022 to mid-2023: 160.
Worsbrough sits above 73% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (11%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, Worsbrough has 21%. Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: 8% of residents. The median age in the town is 44.2, lower than in 52% of UK towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Worsbrough, 44.2. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Only 6.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Worsbrough
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 20% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 35% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%. For Worsbrough, the census puts full-time students at 4.8%.
One-person households make up 34% in Worsbrough, more than in 80% 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.
Set against 29% across England’s towns, 26% of households have dependent children in Worsbrough. Against that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The average household has 2.2 people.
In Worsbrough, 10% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 52% 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
Households in detached houses are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 21%. Across England’s towns, households in flats come to 23%.
In Worsbrough, 96% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 69% 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (3.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1%). Typically, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Of residents born abroad, 16% arrived in 2017 or later, against 21% across England’s towns.
Worsbrough sits above 72% of UK towns for residents with no religion (44%)
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: 93% of Worsbrough · South Yorkshire’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 49% here and 46% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 37% across England’s towns. Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (3.4%), African (1.1%) and Mixed or multiple (0.8%).
11% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 83% 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
332 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. The share of unpaid carers across England’s towns is 8.7%. Adults who have never married are more common here than in 87% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 20% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 20% of adults in Worsbrough (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 30% (England’s towns: 18%).
Ranked by age, 215th youngest of 482 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Tidworth is the youngest (28.4); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Worsbrough in age: Liskeard (44.1), Strensall (44.2), Hagley (44.2) and Shaftesbury (44.2).
Around Worsbrough, 3 of 7 towns have a higher median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Worsbrough’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. Worsbrough’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 9,438 people in 2021, against 8,840 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 Worsbrough’s residents
What is the population of Worsbrough?
The 2021 Census counted 8,840 people in Worsbrough’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 9,700 people in mid-2024, 3% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Worsbrough?
The median age was 44.2 at the 2021 Census, younger than 52% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Worsbrough?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across South Yorkshire’s towns. 5.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Worsbrough?
44% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Worsbrough good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Worsbrough’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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