Photo: Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0Butt Green is younger than 96% of UK towns: a median age of 35.2
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 1.7% of households have no car or van in Butt Green. More households with dependent children than in 99% of UK towns: 52%. Census day 2021: 797 residents and 287 households locally. The census found that 0.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in the village.
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 4.9%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
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.
More students than 93% of UK towns: 7.5% of adults in Butt Green
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 Butt Green, 59% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 7.7% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 7.9% of adults are full-time students. Just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
20% of households are one person living alone, below 98% of UK towns
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.
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Butt Green, 2.8. Elsewhere, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Butt Green: 63% of households live in a detached house, above 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
Terraced houses are home to 18% of households, against 24% across England’s towns. Against that, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. Locally, 12% of households live in a flat or apartment.
Butt Green sits above 65% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (8.2%)
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
In Butt Green, 97% of residents have English as their main language, beside 90% across England’s towns. Residents born outside the UK: 18% across England’s towns, for comparison. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.6%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 90%, a lower share than 62% 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 Butt Green · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents with no religion is 42% in Butt Green and 37% across England’s towns. Across Butt Green, just over half of residents describe themselves as Christian. Elsewhere, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
A smaller share of unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns: 5.1%
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 5 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. More married adults and civil partners than in 93% of UK towns: 57%. For unpaid carers, the comparison across England’s towns is 8.7%. Adults who have never married: 32% here and 39% across England’s towns.
Among adults, 55% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Butt Green, 4.4%, while 55% hold one at degree level (34%). A levels are as far as 20% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Butt Green is younger than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butt Green | 797 | — | 35.2 | 4.9% | 52% |
| Nantwich | 18,741 | 1 mi | 46.1 | 24% | 24% |
| Willaston (Cheshire East) | 3,653 | 1.1 mi | 44.9 | 23% | 28% |
| Shavington | 4,972 | 2.2 mi | 46.5 | 24% | 25% |
| Crewe | 74,116 | 3.5 mi | 38.7 | 16% | 29% |
| Audlem | 1,833 | 4.7 mi | 58.2 | 39% | 19% |
| Haslington | 5,042 | 5.2 mi | 49.2 | 25% | 25% |
| Winterley | 1,371 | 6.4 mi | 48.8 | 23% | 28% |
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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.
- “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 Butt Green’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 Butt Green’s residents
What is the population of Butt Green?
The 2021 Census counted 797 people in Butt Green’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Butt Green?
The median age was 35.2 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 4.9% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Butt Green?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 8.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Butt Green?
42% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Butt Green good for families?
52% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Butt Green’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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