Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Coxley sits below 96% of UK towns for households without a car or van (6.9%)
By its share of one-person households (24%), Coxley is below 89% of UK towns. Married adults and civil partners: 52% of the total. Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in 83% of UK towns. The village’s 232 households held 542 residents at the 2021 Census.
Older than 66% of UK towns: half of Coxley is over 46.6
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Coxley sits close to the norm on residents aged 15 to 24: 12%, about the same as across England’s towns. Here, a fifth of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Above 61% of UK towns: 5.1% of adults are full-time students
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Coxley, 43% and 17%. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%. For Coxley, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Larger households than 62% of UK towns: 2.3 people on average
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.
Across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children is 29%; Coxley has 27%. Shared houses stand out: 3.5% of households are unrelated adults living together, more than in 86% of UK towns.
38% of households live in a detached house, more than in 71% 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
23% of households live in a terraced house (England’s towns: 24%). Add to that, at 14%, the share of households in flats is higher than in 67% of UK towns. Against that, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
A smaller share of residents born outside the UK than 82% of UK towns: 3.7%
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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Across England’s towns, nine in ten residents have English as their main language; in Coxley, 99%. On average, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.5%) and in Africa (0.9%).
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 82% of UK towns: 56%
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: 96% of Coxley · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the largest groups are Mixed or multiple (1.5%), Other White (0.7%) and Pakistani (0.7%). For comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. 40% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns.
30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 64% 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 7 residents. Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. 9.7% of residents give unpaid care (England’s towns: 8.7%).
Among adults, 34% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
13% of Coxley’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 34% have one at degree level (34%).
Around Coxley, 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.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coxley | 542 | — | 46.6 | 20% | 27% |
| Netherton (Wakefield) | 2,331 | 0.7 mi | 50.6 | 27% | 22% |
| Middlestown and Overton | 2,409 | 1 mi | 49 | 26% | 25% |
| Horbury | 9,868 | 1.1 mi | 46.1 | 22% | 26% |
| Ossett | 21,854 | 1.8 mi | 45 | 23% | 27% |
| Crigglestone and Durkar | 6,672 | 2.2 mi | 45.6 | 22% | 26% |
| Flockton | 1,732 | 2.7 mi | 41.2 | 18% | 31% |
| Hall Green | 2,307 | 2.8 mi | 47 | 23% | 28% |
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 Coxley’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 Coxley’s residents
What is the population of Coxley?
The 2021 Census counted 542 people in Coxley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Coxley?
The median age was 46.6 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Coxley?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Coxley?
40% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 3.9% didn’t answer.
Is Coxley good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Coxley’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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