Photo: Nigel Homer · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54.1: Cragg Vale is older than 95% of UK towns
With households with dependent children at 23%, Cragg Vale is behind 85% of UK towns on that count. There were 160 households locally at the 2021 Census, home to 366 residents. The share of households in detached houses stands at 48%. One-person households are rarer here than in 94% of UK towns.
Cragg Vale ranks above 90% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 29%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
55–59 is the most common age band: just over one in ten residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. At 8.9%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 77% of UK towns. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of residents who moved in within the year than 99% of UK towns: 5%
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%.
48% of Cragg Vale’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 9.6% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, full-time students are scarce here: 4.2%, fewer than in 78% of UK towns. Against that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Cragg Vale ranks below 76% of UK towns on shared households of unrelated adults: 1.9%
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. Set beside that, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
Fewer households in flats than 95% of UK towns: 2.5%
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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 12% of households have no car or van in Cragg Vale. By contrast, the village has more households in terraced houses than 68% of UK towns, at 25%. The wider picture: nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 98% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
3.6% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (2.2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). Across England’s towns, 90% of residents have English as their main language.
45% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 78% of UK towns
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: 95% of Cragg Vale · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian; in Cragg Vale, 45%. The usual figure: 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Here, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Cragg Vale sits above 99% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (63%)
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
Compared with 8.7% across England’s towns, 6% of residents give unpaid care here. Adults who have never married account for 23%. Married adults and civil partners: 44% across England’s towns, for comparison.
49% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
49% of Cragg Vale’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 9.3% have none (18%).
Every neighbour of Cragg Vale has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cragg Vale | 366 | — | 54.1 | 29% | 23% |
| Mytholmroyd | 3,852 | 1.3 mi | 48.4 | 24% | 24% |
| Luddenden Foot | 2,148 | 2.2 mi | 44.9 | 17% | 29% |
| Hebden Bridge | 5,230 | 2.3 mi | 46.7 | 19% | 24% |
| Sowerby Bridge | 4,483 | 2.7 mi | 41.7 | 18% | 30% |
| Ripponden | 4,775 | 3.4 mi | 44.1 | 18% | 32% |
| Halifax | 88,111 | 4.5 mi | 37.9 | 16% | 31% |
| Todmorden | 12,971 | 4.5 mi | 43.4 | 20% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Cragg Vale’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 Cragg Vale’s residents
What is the population of Cragg Vale?
The 2021 Census counted 366 people in Cragg Vale’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cragg Vale?
The median age was 54.1 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cragg Vale?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 3.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cragg Vale?
45% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 8.7% didn’t answer.
Is Cragg Vale good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cragg Vale’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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