Photo: John Naisbitt · CC BY-SA 2.0More households in detached houses than 99% of UK towns: 89%
One-person households make up 15%, against 30% across England’s towns. There were 123 households in Cranage at the 2021 Census, home to 318 residents. The census found that a fifth of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here. 28% of residents said they have no religion, a lower share than in 95% of UK towns.
Older than 91% of UK towns: half of Cranage is over 51.5
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Cranage sits close to the norm on residents aged 65 and over: 18%, about the same as across England’s towns. Across Cranage, 9.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
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.
Below 99% of UK towns: 4.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 64% of Cranage’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 6.1%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Against that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Here, 6.4% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 99% of UK towns: 0.8%
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.
With households with dependent children at 32%, Cranage is ahead of 83% of UK towns on that count. Households average 2.5 people. As a yardstick, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
In Cranage, 0.8% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 99% 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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 4% of households live in a terraced house in Cranage.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns: 100%
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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%). The share of residents whose main language is English across England’s towns is 90%. Compared with other places, residents born outside the UK are scarce here: 3.1%, fewer than in 89% of UK towns.
Cranage sits above 98% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (64%)
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: 93% of Cranage · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British; in Cranage, 93%. Of the other groups, the largest are Mixed or multiple (2.8%), Other White (1.9%) and Indian (0.3%). By way of comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
71% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Cranage has 10%. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 4 people.
A degree-level qualification for 52% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 52% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 4.1% hold no qualification (18%). A levels are the highest qualification of 16%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Of the 7 towns nearest Cranage, 1 are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranage | 318 | — | 51.5 | 18% | 32% |
| Holmes Chapel | 6,674 | 0.8 mi | 47.8 | 27% | 29% |
| Goostrey | 1,952 | 1.6 mi | 58.5 | 40% | 19% |
| Middlewich | 14,428 | 3.4 mi | 44.8 | 20% | 27% |
| Elworth | 7,646 | 4.4 mi | 41.3 | 16% | 32% |
| Sandbach | 11,289 | 4.5 mi | 47.3 | 25% | 23% |
| Wheelock | 2,155 | 5.4 mi | 38.1 | 15% | 34% |
| Rudheath | 4,803 | 5.4 mi | 42.9 | 18% | 26% |
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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 Cranage’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 Cranage’s residents
What is the population of Cranage?
The 2021 Census counted 318 people in Cranage’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cranage?
The median age was 51.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 18% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cranage?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 3.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cranage?
28% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.7% didn’t answer.
Is Cranage good for families?
32% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cranage’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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