Photo: Ronald Saunders from Warrington, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0Croft ranks below 99% of UK towns on shared households of unrelated adults: 1%
Where 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns, Croft has 62%. 1,520 residents in 629 households: that is Croft at the 2021 Census. The share of households in detached houses stands at 53%. Few places have so few households in terraced houses: 9.2% here, fewer than in 91% of UK towns.
Half of Croft is over 48.6, older than 77% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Nearly a quarter of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). The largest age band is 55–59: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
5.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 99% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Croft, 48% and 16%. Residents who moved in within the year: 11% across England’s towns, for comparison. For Croft, the census puts full-time students at 5.8%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Below 87% of UK towns: 25% of households are one person living alone
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.
Households with dependent children are about as common here as across England’s towns: 29%. Typically, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. Each household has 2.4 people on average.
Croft sits below 86% of UK towns for households without a car or van (9.3%)
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
Compared with 23% across England’s towns, 4.9% of households live in a flat or apartment here. In one household in 11 there is no car or van.
In Croft, 2.9% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 92% 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
Nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, against 99% in Croft. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.4%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%).
Only 31% of residents said they have no religion in Croft
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 Croft · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (1.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Indian (0.9%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 95%, more than in three quarters of UK towns. Residents with no religion make up 37% across England’s towns.
Above 96% of UK towns: 58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 44 residents. Lower than in 94% of UK towns: 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Still, 11% of residents give unpaid care; across England’s towns the figure is 8.7%.
Among adults, 44% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Croft counts 44% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 11% have no qualification (18%).
3 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Croft
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croft | 1,520 | — | 48.6 | 24% | 29% |
| Culcheth | 6,722 | 1.9 mi | 50 | 25% | 27% |
| Winwick | 2,062 | 2.1 mi | 46.8 | 20% | 31% |
| Golborne | 25,563 | 3 mi | 43.5 | 21% | 28% |
| Warrington | 174,968 | 3.1 mi | 41.6 | 18% | 28% |
| Glazebury | 1,094 | 3.4 mi | 50.4 | 25% | 24% |
| Newton-le-Willows | 24,651 | 3.6 mi | 38.1 | 15% | 29% |
| Burtonwood | 3,504 | 4.2 mi | 49.7 | 28% | 24% |
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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 Croft’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 Croft’s residents
What is the population of Croft?
The 2021 Census counted 1,520 people in Croft’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Croft?
The median age was 48.6 at the 2021 Census. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Croft?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Croft?
31% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Croft good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Croft’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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