Photo: michael ely · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 52.7: Comberbach is older than 93% of UK towns
Households in flats make up 0.5%, against 23% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Comberbach’s population at 954, in 405 households. Across Comberbach, nearly two thirds of adults are married or in a civil partnership. On households in terraced houses, Comberbach sits lower than 94% of UK towns: 7.4%.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 99% of UK towns: 6.4%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
30% of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
3.4% of adults are full-time students, below 96% 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%.
53% of Comberbach’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 12% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, full-time students come to 7.9%. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 7.3%.
Comberbach sits below 94% of UK towns for one-person households (23%)
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.
4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, against 2.7% in Comberbach. Set beside that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Across Comberbach, a quarter of households have dependent children.
A higher share of households in detached houses than 97% of UK towns, at 62%
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 without a car or van make up 7.4%, against 24% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
3.3% of residents were born outside the UK, below 88% 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 EU countries (1.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.1%). Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are common here: 99%, more than in nearly three quarters of UK towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
61% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 95% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 95% of Comberbach · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (2.1%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and African (0.1%). Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 31%, fewer than in 92% of UK towns. Set beside that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Where 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, Comberbach has 95%.
Comberbach ranks below 99% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 20%
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
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 25 people. Comberbach has fewer unpaid carers than just over half of UK towns, at 9.3%. By way of comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
51% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 51% of its adults qualified to degree level, Comberbach compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 10% hold no qualification (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Comberbach
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 Comberbach’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 Comberbach’s residents
What is the population of Comberbach?
The 2021 Census counted 954 people in Comberbach’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Comberbach?
The median age was 52.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Comberbach?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Comberbach?
31% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Comberbach good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Comberbach’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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