Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 94% of UK towns: 7.9%
Adults who have never married: 25% here and 39% across England’s towns. Thorner is home to 1,397 residents in 621 households, by the 2021 Census. In Thorner, 57% of residents describe themselves as Christian. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 93% of UK towns.
Older than 84% of UK towns: half of Thorner is over 50
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, 18% of residents are 65 or over; in Thorner, 27%. In Addingham, the oldest of West Yorkshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
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.
Thorner ranks below 67% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 7.9%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for nearly half of Thorner’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 14%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. At 5%, the share of full-time students is higher than in three fifths of UK towns. The wider picture: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Below 72% of UK towns: 25% of households have dependent children
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.
The share of one-person households is 32%, against 30% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. On average, 2.3 people share a household.
Thorner sits above 69% of UK towns for households in detached houses (36%)
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
Compared with 23% across England’s towns, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment here. Few places have as many households in terraced houses: 25% here, more than in 69% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, households in detached houses come to 21%. For Thorner, the census puts households without a car or van at 15%.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Thorner, more than in 92% 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
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK in Thorner comes in at 4.1%. The usual figure: nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%).
35% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 80% 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: 94% of Thorner · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (2.7%), Mixed or multiple (2.2%) and Indian (1.3%). For residents with no religion, the comparison across England’s towns is 37%. At 94%, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is higher than in 62% of UK towns.
54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 83% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Some 32 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Across England’s towns, married adults and civil partners come to 44%. Unpaid carers are more common here than in 69% of UK towns.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 48%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Thorner’s adults: 48% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Of the 7 towns nearest Thorner, 3 are 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorner | 1,397 | — | 50 | 27% | 25% |
| Scarcroft | 1,634 | 1.2 mi | 47.3 | 22% | 34% |
| Bardsey | 1,819 | 2.2 mi | 50.1 | 28% | 27% |
| Shadwell | 1,452 | 2.2 mi | 47.7 | 24% | 29% |
| Scholes (Leeds) | 2,270 | 2.2 mi | 51.6 | 30% | 25% |
| Barwick in Elmet | 2,180 | 2.4 mi | 54.2 | 32% | 21% |
| East Keswick | 1,145 | 2.8 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 28% |
| Bramham | 1,764 | 3.1 mi | 46.3 | 23% | 29% |
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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 Thorner’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 Thorner’s residents
What is the population of Thorner?
The 2021 Census counted 1,397 people in Thorner’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Thorner?
The median age was 50 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Thorner?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 4.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Thorner?
35% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Thorner good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Thorner’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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