Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.0A larger share of households in flats than 70% of UK towns: 15%
The figure for one-person households is 32% in Kidderminster and 30% across England’s towns. Across Kidderminster, nearly a fifth of households have no car or van. On adults who have never married, Kidderminster sits higher than 72% of UK towns: 36%. This Worcestershire town had 57,567 residents in 25,486 households at the 2021 Census.
Slower than most: +6% since 2011, behind 58% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Kidderminster’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 55,200 people in 2011; 58,300 in 2024.
In one year, mid-2013 to mid-2014, the population rose by 460, the most of any year. Growth was strongest among the 65 and over (+25%) and weakest among the 16 to 29 (−6%).
Half of Kidderminster is under 43.6, younger than 57% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 7.3% of residents. In Broadway, the oldest of Worcestershire’s towns by this measure, it is 37%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Kidderminster, 43.6. 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.
8.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 62% 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%.
By class, 27% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 31% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). 4.7% of adults are full-time students. Residents who moved in within the year make up 11% across England’s towns.
Households with dependent children make up 26% in Kidderminster, less than in 62% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Worcestershire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households average 2.2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. At the same time, 2.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, more than in 63% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Below 63% of UK towns: 24% of households live in a detached house
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
22% of households live in a terraced house; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. As a yardstick, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English: 97%, a lower share than 67% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.6%). To put it in context, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Since 2017: 14% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns.
Kidderminster sits below 59% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (91%)
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 Kidderminster · Worcestershire’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 51% of residents describe themselves as Christian, where the figure across England’s towns is 46%. As a reference point, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. 1.3% of residents said their religion is Muslim.
Kidderminster ranks below 78% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 43%
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
Locally, 9.5% of residents give unpaid care. 36% of Kidderminster’s adults have never married or formed a civil partnership and 43% are married, against 39% and 44% across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 24% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
22% of Kidderminster’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 24% have one at degree level (34%).
From a median age of 36 in Kidderminster Town to 48 in Spennells & Hoobrook
The town’s 8 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Spennells & Hoobrook is the oldest area, with 25% aged 65 or over; Kidderminster Town the youngest (median age 36). Families with children are most common in Birchen Coppice (30% of households).
Among 126 UK towns of 40,000 to 78,000 people, the 27th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Canterbury is the youngest (27.5); Lytham St Anne's the oldest (54.4). Nearest to Kidderminster in age: Bamber Bridge (43.5), South Shields (43.6), Horsham (43.8) and Salisbury (43.8).
No nearby town is as young as Kidderminster
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
- “Worcestershire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Worcestershire (or England), summed the same way as Kidderminster’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. Kidderminster’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 57,414 people in 2021, against 57,567 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 Kidderminster’s residents
What is the population of Kidderminster?
The 2021 Census counted 57,567 people in Kidderminster’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 58,300 people in mid-2024, 6% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Kidderminster?
The median age was 43.6 at the 2021 Census, younger than 57% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Kidderminster?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Worcestershire’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Kidderminster?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.3% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Kidderminster good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Birchen Coppice (30% of households). Schools are on Kidderminster’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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