Vehicle barriers in Featherstone (Wakefield)

Featherstone (Wakefield) is the Census 2021 built-up area E63000975 in Yorkshire and The Humber. ONS counted 11,655 usual residents and a median age of 39.

The ONS size class for this settlement is Small. Largest industry groups among employed residents: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles at 21.2%, then Human health and social work activities at 14.5%, then Manufacturing at 11.3%.

Accommodation: Whole house or bungalow: Semi-detached at 38.9%, then Whole house or bungalow: Terraced at 37.4%, then Whole house or bungalow: Detached at 14.7%, then Flat, maisonette or apartment at 9%. Tenure: Owned: owns with a mortgage or loan or shared ownership at 30.9%, then Owned: owns outright at 28.9%, then Rented: social rented at 25%, then Private rented or lives rent free at 15.2%.

The largest occupation group is Elementary occupations at 16.6% of employed residents. Among residents aged 16 and over, 56% were recorded as employed.

Wholesale and retail is the largest industry group. Private service yards and retail-park lanes can take a rising arm.

The high street itself cannot. Detached houses lead the housing mix, so communal booms are less common than on flatted estates.

We do not invent a podium that the census says is not the main housing form. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5 and very small cells may have been suppressed by ONS.

A barrier survey is on application and only for a private lane. This readout does not invent a business park.

Other settlements with their own barrier page in Yorkshire and The Humber include Garforth, Gomersal and Birkenshaw, Goole.