Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.012% of households live in a detached house, fewer than in 91% of UK towns
Where nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Yeadon has 30%. The town had 14,273 residents and 6,515 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 44.1 (younger than 53% of UK towns). Census figures put one-person households at 33% in the town. Residents with no religion are more common here than in 75% of UK towns.
A change of +3% since 2011 leaves Yeadon behind 70% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Yeadon’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 14,300 people in 2011; 14,800 in 2024.
The 65 and over age group moved most (+36%); the 0 to 15 group moved least (−9%). The steepest year was mid-2016 to mid-2017, up 140 people.
9.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 60% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: 7.2% of residents. Against that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Half of Yeadon’s residents are under 44.1, younger than in 53% 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+
■ Yeadon, 44.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Yeadon sits below 62% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (8.1%)
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%.
35% of Yeadon’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 11% across England’s towns, for comparison. The census found that 4.8% of adults are full-time students in the town.
Yeadon households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 76% 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.
2.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, against 4.3% across England’s towns. The share of households with dependent children stands at 26%.
Yeadon sits above 72% of UK towns for households without a car or van (20%)
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 in flats: 15%, above 70% of UK towns. The share of households without a car or van across England’s towns is 24%.
Only 4.5% of Yeadon’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.9%) or in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). Typically, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Higher than in 62% of UK towns: 98% of residents have English as their main language. Among those born abroad, the share arriving in 2017 or later is 13% (England’s towns: 21%).
Only 47% of residents describe themselves as Christian in Yeadon
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: 93% of Yeadon · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 73% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British in Yeadon comes in at 93%. The usual figure: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Next after White British come Other White (2.2%), Mixed or multiple (2%) and Indian (0.9%).
In Yeadon, 35% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 69% of UK towns
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
339 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. On average, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Lower than in 70% of UK towns: 45% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. Unpaid carers: 9.5%, near enough the figure across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 31%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 31% of adults in Yeadon, 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification, against 18%.
From a median age of 41 in Yeadon South to 47 in Yeadon East
The town’s 4 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Yeadon East is the oldest area, with 25% aged 65 or over; Yeadon South the youngest (median age 41). Families with children are most common in Guiseley East & South (35% of households).
Ranked by age, 179th oldest of 360 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 25 in Aberystwyth to 60.4 in Sidmouth. Nearest to Yeadon in age: Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green (44), Blaydon (44.1), Kesgrave (44.1) and Corsham (44.1).
Yeadon sits below 5 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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 Yeadon’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Yeadon’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 14,572 people in 2021, against 14,273 in the built-up area.
- 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 Yeadon’s residents
What is the population of Yeadon?
The 2021 Census counted 14,273 people in Yeadon’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 14,800 people in mid-2024, 3% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Yeadon?
The median age was 44.1 at the 2021 Census, younger than 53% of UK towns. 9.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Yeadon?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 4.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Yeadon?
45% said they had no religion and 47% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Yeadon good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Guiseley East & South (35% of households). Schools are on Yeadon’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024 · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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