Photo: Charlesdrakew · Public domainOnly 19% of households in Harewood have dependent children
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Harewood was home to 267 people in 135 households. Here, 57% of households live in a terraced house. Compared with 12% across England’s towns, 7.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24 here.
A median age of 50.5: Harewood is older than 87% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 10% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. 26% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
57% women, 43% men
About 76 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.
Harewood sits below 89% of UK towns for full-time students (3.8%)
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Harewood has 52% and 15%. Set beside that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 8% locally.
40% of households are one person living alone, more than in 99% 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 in Harewood hold 2 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). One-person households make up 30% across England’s towns.
Below 82% of UK towns: 5.2% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
Households without a car or van: 13% here and 24% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. The census found that nearly a fifth of households live in a detached house in Harewood.
3.8% born outside the UK, fewer than in 80% 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
With residents whose main language is English at 99%, Harewood is ahead of 82% of UK towns on that count. Against that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in the rest of Europe (1.5%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1.1%).
Residents with no religion: 29%, a lower share than 95% 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: 88% of Harewood · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%; Harewood has 55%. On the census count, 88% of residents describe themselves as White British. As a yardstick, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
More unpaid carers than 74% of UK towns: 10%
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
4 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. On married adults and civil partners, Harewood sits lower than 77% of UK towns: 44%. Typically, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Set against 39% across England’s towns, nearly a third of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in the village.
44% 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 Harewood, 44%, and 11% have none, against 18%.
No nearby town is as old as Harewood
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harewood | 267 | — | 50.5 | 26% | 19% |
| East Keswick | 1,145 | 2.4 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 28% |
| Bardsey | 1,819 | 3.1 mi | 50.1 | 28% | 27% |
| Scarcroft | 1,634 | 3.4 mi | 47.3 | 22% | 34% |
| Shadwell | 1,452 | 3.7 mi | 47.7 | 24% | 29% |
| Collingham | 2,362 | 3.9 mi | 50 | 28% | 28% |
| Pannal | 2,530 | 4 mi | 50.2 | 30% | 31% |
| Bramhope | 3,593 | 4.4 mi | 48.7 | 27% | 29% |
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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 Harewood’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 Harewood’s residents
What is the population of Harewood?
The 2021 Census counted 267 people in Harewood’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Harewood?
The median age was 50.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Harewood?
88% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Harewood?
29% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.5% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Harewood good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Harewood’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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