Photo: Linda Spashett Storye_book · CC BY 3.0Only 2.7% of households live in a terraced house in Bramhope
The share of households in detached houses is 60%, against 21% across England’s towns. Meanwhile, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 86% of UK towns. Bramhope counted 3,593 residents and 1,472 households at the 2021 Census. Census figures put married adults and civil partners at 63% in the town.
What the Census says about Bramhope’s people
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Bramhope at 3,000 in 2011 and 3,800 in 2024, up 27%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 92% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
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.
Since 2011, Bramhope has grown +27%, faster than 92% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Bramhope’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 3,000 people in 2011; 3,800 in 2024.
Change by age ran from +61% for the 0 to 15 to +3% for the 45 to 64. The biggest jump came in the year to mid-2023: 260 more people.
Half of Bramhope is over 48.7, older than 78% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
27% of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. In Addingham, the oldest of West Yorkshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Bramhope, 48.7. The typical town is 44.4.
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.
Residents who moved in within the year: 6.6%, a lower share than 92% 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%.
Where 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns, Bramhope has 5.5%. The share of residents who moved in within the year across England’s towns is 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
In Bramhope, 25% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 84% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against West Yorkshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households average 2.4 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison. On the census count, 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Higher than in 64% of UK towns: 29% of households have dependent children.
Only 7.7% of households have no car or van in Bramhope
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
Flats are home to 5.2% of households, against 23% across England’s towns. What’s more, every 13th household or so has no car or van.
In Bramhope, 8.4% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 66% 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
Where 21% of those born abroad across England’s towns arrived in 2017 or later, here the share is 12%. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The census found that 97% of residents have English as their main language in Bramhope.
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 92% of UK towns: 31%
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: 86% of Bramhope · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The Muslim share of residents is 3.2%. 86% of residents describe themselves as White British, a lower share than in 77% of UK towns. Against that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 56%, above 83% of UK towns.
Below 98% of UK towns: 22% 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
83 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week. The share of adults who have never married across England’s towns is 39%. On unpaid carers, Bramhope sits lower than just over three fifths of UK towns: 9%.
55% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
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 Bramhope, 55%, and 8.1% have none, against 18%.
530 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people: this is the 181st oldest
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 Bramhope in age: Ashburton (48.6), Nelson (48.6), St Asaph (48.7) and Boroughbridge (48.8).
Every nearby town is younger than Bramhope
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
- 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 Yorkshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in West Yorkshire (or England), summed the same way as Bramhope’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. Bramhope’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 3,245 people in 2021, against 3,593 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 Bramhope’s residents
What is the population of Bramhope?
The 2021 Census counted 3,593 people in Bramhope’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 3,800 people in mid-2024, 27% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Bramhope?
The median age was 48.7 at the 2021 Census, older than 78% of UK towns. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bramhope?
86% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 8.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bramhope?
31% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 3.2% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Bramhope good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bramhope’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.