Photo: Colin Pyle · CC BY-SA 2.00.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, below 99% of UK towns
Households without a car or van: 4.7% here and 24% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Appleton Thorn was home to 1,372 people in 444 households. One-person households: 19% of the total. 1.6% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a lower share than in 90% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Appleton Thorn’s people
A village people move to
17% of residents gave a different address a year before the 2021 Census, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Students & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Below 95% of UK towns: 7.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
25–29 is the most common age band: 9.4% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Few places have so few residents aged 65 and over: 18% here, fewer than in 80% of UK towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
39% women, 61% men
About 64 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. A large institution, such as a prison, barracks, boarding school, university or care home, can tilt a town’s split: the census counts the people living there as residents.
3.1% of adults are full-time students, below 98% 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%.
In Appleton Thorn, 17% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, beside 11% across England’s towns. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bigger households than 73% of UK towns: 2.4 people each on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cheshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The share of households with dependent children trails 62% of UK towns: 26%.
In Appleton Thorn, 3.8% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 98% of UK towns
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
Just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, against 66% in Appleton Thorn. As a reference point, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
In Appleton Thorn, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 86% 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
The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (2.6%) and in EU countries (0.9%). Appleton Thorn has fewer residents born outside the UK than 62% of UK towns, at 5.3%. To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 55%, a higher share than 78% 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: 90% of Appleton Thorn · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 90% here and 73% across England’s towns. The census found that just over a third of residents said they have no religion in Appleton Thorn. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%.
Only 6.9% of residents give unpaid care in Appleton Thorn
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
Where 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, Appleton Thorn has 40%. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 17. Married adults and civil partners are rarer here than in just over half of UK towns. The comparison figure for unpaid carers is 8.7% across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 41% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
10% of Appleton Thorn’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 41% have one at degree level (34%).
Appleton Thorn and its 7 nearest towns: 6 of them are older
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
- “Cheshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cheshire (or England), summed the same way as Appleton Thorn’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 Appleton Thorn’s residents
What is the population of Appleton Thorn?
The 2021 Census counted 1,372 people in Appleton Thorn’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Appleton Thorn?
The median age was 43.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 18% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Appleton Thorn?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 5.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Appleton Thorn?
35% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 3.5% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Appleton Thorn good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Appleton Thorn’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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