Photo: Tim Green aka atouch · CC BY 2.0Mytholmroyd: 39% of households are one person living alone, above 98% of UK towns
Households average 2.1 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are common here: 41%, more than in 95% of UK towns. 3,852 residents in 1,868 households: that is Mytholmroyd at the 2021 Census. Across Mytholmroyd, 16% of households live in a flat or apartment.
What the Census says about Mytholmroyd’s people
More with no religion than most
53% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 40% 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).
Older than 76% of UK towns: half of Mytholmroyd is over 48.4
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: 8.3% of residents. At 24%, the share of residents aged 65 and over is higher than in 69% 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+
■ Mytholmroyd, 48.4. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 76% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Mytholmroyd has 37% and 23%. Typically, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Census figures put full-time students at 5% in the town.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
1.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 95% 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.
Set against 29% across England’s towns, 24% of households have dependent children in Mytholmroyd. The share of shared households of unrelated adults across England’s towns is 4.3%.
Fewer detached houses than 83% of UK towns: 16% of households
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
Nothing unusual on households without a car or van: 24%, close to the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house.
More residents whose main language is English than 91% of UK towns: 99%
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
Arrivals from 2017 on account for 10% of residents born abroad, beside 21% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. 4% of residents were born outside the UK.
A larger share of residents with no religion than 97% of UK towns: 53%
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: 94% of Mytholmroyd · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (2.6%), Mixed or multiple (1.9%) and Pakistani (0.3%). Lower than in 93% of UK towns: 40% of residents describe themselves as Christian. For residents with no religion, the comparison across England’s towns is 37%. The figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 94% in Mytholmroyd and 73% across England’s towns.
Mytholmroyd 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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 104 people. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 36% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, a higher share than in 71% of UK towns. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 9.1%, from the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 37% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Mytholmroyd’s adults: 37% with a degree-level qualification and 16% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
198th oldest of 530 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people
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 Mytholmroyd in age: Chipping Ongar (48.3), Llantrisant (48.3), Hemingford Grey (48.4) and Trimley St Mary (48.4).
Around Mytholmroyd, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mytholmroyd | 3,852 | — | 48.4 | 24% | 24% |
| Hebden Bridge | 5,230 | 1.4 mi | 46.7 | 19% | 24% |
| Luddenden Foot | 2,148 | 1.9 mi | 44.9 | 17% | 29% |
| Sowerby Bridge | 4,483 | 3 mi | 41.7 | 18% | 30% |
| Halifax | 88,111 | 4.2 mi | 37.9 | 16% | 31% |
| Ripponden | 4,775 | 4.5 mi | 44.1 | 18% | 32% |
| Todmorden | 12,971 | 4.9 mi | 43.4 | 20% | 26% |
| Oxenhope | 1,898 | 5.6 mi | 48.7 | 23% | 24% |
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 Mytholmroyd’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 Mytholmroyd’s residents
What is the population of Mytholmroyd?
The 2021 Census counted 3,852 people in Mytholmroyd’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Mytholmroyd?
The median age was 48.4 at the 2021 Census, older than 76% of UK towns. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Mytholmroyd?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Mytholmroyd?
53% said they had no religion and 40% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Mytholmroyd good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Mytholmroyd’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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