Photo: peter lloyd · CC BY-SA 2.05.9% of households live in a terraced house, below 97% of UK towns
With households with dependent children at 23%, Catherine-de-Barnes is behind 87% of UK towns on that count. The village has fewer households without a car or van than 94% of UK towns, at 7.4%. Census day 2021: 626 residents and 270 households here. Locally, 9% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Half of Catherine-de-Barnes is over 50.4, older than 87% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
A quarter of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). In Aldridge, the oldest of West Midlands’ towns by this measure, it is 28%.
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.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 6% in Catherine-de-Barnes, less than in 97% 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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Catherine-de-Barnes, 48% and 11%. At 5.5%, the share of full-time students is higher than in nearly three quarters of UK towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Larger households than 58% of UK towns: 2.3 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against West Midlands’ towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Here 2.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across England’s towns is 4.3%. Few places have so few one-person households: 29% here, fewer than in 63% of UK towns.
51% of households live in a detached house, more than in 90% 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
Where 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, Catherine-de-Barnes has 13%. The wider picture: 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
8.3% of residents were born outside the UK, a share 66% of UK towns don’t reach
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 30%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (5.6%) and in EU countries (1.4%). Measured more widely, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 97% of residents have English as their main language here.
Only 31% of residents said they have no religion in Catherine-de-Barnes
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: 76% of Catherine-de-Barnes · West Midlands’ towns 56% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 76%, against 73% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as Christian at 49% in Catherine-de-Barnes.
12% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 99% 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
Married adults and civil partners: 58%, above 96% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, unpaid carers come to 8.7%. The share of adults who have never married stands at 26%.
Degree-level qualifications: 46% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Catherine-de-Barnes’s adults: 46% with a degree-level qualification and 13% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Catherine-de-Barnes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine-de-Barnes | 626 | — | 50.4 | 25% | 23% |
| Hampton in Arden | 1,867 | 1.7 mi | 45.8 | 20% | 29% |
| Knowle and Dorridge | 19,323 | 2.7 mi | 48.2 | 26% | 30% |
| Solihull | 107,754 | 2.7 mi | 44.2 | 22% | 29% |
| Meriden | 2,203 | 4.1 mi | 46.4 | 25% | 25% |
| Cheswick Green | 2,743 | 4.2 mi | 43.1 | 24% | 32% |
| Balsall Common | 7,094 | 4.4 mi | 48.2 | 25% | 29% |
| Dickens Heath | 4,797 | 4.8 mi | 36 | 8.6% | 32% |
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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.
- “West Midlands’ towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in West Midlands (or England), summed the same way as Catherine-de-Barnes’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 Catherine-de-Barnes’s residents
What is the population of Catherine-de-Barnes?
The 2021 Census counted 626 people in Catherine-de-Barnes’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Catherine-de-Barnes?
The median age was 50.4 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Catherine-de-Barnes?
76% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 56% across West Midlands’ towns. 8.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Catherine-de-Barnes?
31% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 5.4% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Catherine-de-Barnes good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Catherine-de-Barnes’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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