Photo: Tim Green from Bradford · CC BY 2.0Above 89% of UK towns: 33% of households have dependent children
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (8.4%), Calverley is below 88% of UK towns. There were 1,629 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 3,988 residents. Households in terraced houses: 32% of the total. 11% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 76% of UK towns.
Half of Calverley is under 42.1, younger than 68% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 40–44, with nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 19%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Calverley, 42.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A higher share of full-time students than 69% of UK towns, at 5.3%
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%.
Just over half of Calverley’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 14% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. This West Yorkshire town has fewer residents who moved in within the year than 64% of UK towns, at 8%. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 26% of households in Calverley are one person living alone
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 in Calverley hold 2.4 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). Meanwhile, at 2%, the share of shared households of unrelated adults is lower than in 68% of UK towns. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison.
In Calverley, 6.6% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 74% 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
Across England’s towns, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house; in Calverley, 22%. As a yardstick, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 4.2% in Calverley, less than in 75% 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 newest arrivals, from 2017 or later, are a fifth of those born abroad (against 21% across England’s towns). Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. For Calverley, the census puts residents whose main language is English at 99%.
A smaller share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 58% of UK towns: 91%
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: 91% of Calverley · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Mixed or multiple (2.9%), Other White (2.2%) and Indian (1.3%). Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British. On religion, 42% answered “no religion” and 49% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns.
54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, 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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 82 residents. The share of married adults and civil partners across England’s towns is 44%. 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 67% of UK towns. At 8.6%, the share of unpaid carers is in line with the figure across England’s towns.
47% of adults are qualified to degree level
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 Calverley, 47%, and 11% have none, against 18%.
530 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people: this is the 93rd youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Milford on Sea the oldest (64.6). Nearest to Calverley in age: South Darenth and Sutton at Hone (41.9), Ynysybwl (42), Grassmoor (42.1) and Broomfield (42.1).
A younger town than 3 of the 7 around it: Calverley
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 Calverley’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 Calverley’s residents
What is the population of Calverley?
The 2021 Census counted 3,988 people in Calverley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Calverley?
The median age was 42.1 at the 2021 Census, younger than 68% of UK towns. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Calverley?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 4.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Calverley?
42% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.9% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Calverley good for families?
33% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Calverley’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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