Photo: Tim Green from Bradford · CC BY 2.0Denholme ranks above 92% of UK towns on households in terraced houses: 38%
With a median age of 40.7, Denholme is younger than 77% of UK towns. The town counted 2,960 residents and 1,331 households at the 2021 Census. On the census count, nearly a fifth of households live in a detached house. A household here has 2.2 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4.
What the Census says about Denholme’s people
More with no religion than most
50% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 41% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over: 17%, a lower share than 80% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 7.9% of residents. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. One in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 64% of UK towns. In Addingham, the oldest of West Yorkshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Denholme, 40.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
In Denholme, 7.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 82% 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%.
29% of Denholme’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. For Denholme, the census puts full-time students at 4.8%. By way of comparison, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 72% 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.
32% of households are one person living alone; across England’s towns the figure is 30%. Households with dependent children are more common here than in 62% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
Denholme: 19% of households have no car or van, above 67% 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
Here nearly one in ten households live in a flat or apartment, where the figure across England’s towns is 23%. The comparison figure for households without a car or van is 24% across England’s towns.
Only 4.8% of residents were born outside the UK in Denholme
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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%. Across England’s towns, just over a fifth of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later; here, 12%.
50% said they have no religion, more than in 93% 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: 91% of Denholme · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (2.2%), Mixed or multiple (2.2%) and Indian (1.5%). To put it in context, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Few places have so few residents who describe themselves as Christian: 41% here, fewer than in 92% of UK towns. What’s more, just over nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British, against 73% across England’s towns.
Denholme sits below 84% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (42%)
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
The figure for unpaid carers is 9.9% in Denholme and 8.7% across England’s towns. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. In Denholme, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
Degree-level qualifications: 26% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Denholme, 26% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 20% have no qualification at all (18%).
Ranked by age, 65th youngest of 514 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Keele is the youngest (20.6); West Chiltington the oldest (63.1). Nearest to Denholme in age: Holywell Green and Stainland (40.5), Rendlesham (40.6), Drayton (40.8) and New Tredegar (40.8).
The towns around Denholme are all older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denholme | 2,960 | — | 40.7 | 17% | 29% |
| Cullingworth | 3,096 | 1.6 mi | 45 | 23% | 28% |
| Wilsden | 3,749 | 1.9 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 25% |
| Thornton | 5,410 | 2.1 mi | 43.2 | 20% | 28% |
| Oxenhope | 1,898 | 2.3 mi | 48.7 | 23% | 24% |
| Haworth | 5,680 | 2.9 mi | 47.2 | 22% | 23% |
| Harden | 1,602 | 3 mi | 53 | 29% | 22% |
| Queensbury | 9,707 | 3.2 mi | 41.3 | 17% | 30% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Denholme’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 Denholme’s residents
What is the population of Denholme?
The 2021 Census counted 2,960 people in Denholme’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Denholme?
The median age was 40.7 at the 2021 Census, younger than 77% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 17% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Denholme?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Denholme?
50% said they had no religion and 41% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.9% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Denholme good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Denholme’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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