Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 97% of UK towns: 1.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
8.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across England’s towns. Here, 6.9% of households have no car or van. At 25%, the share of adults who have never married is lower than in 91% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 5,860 residents in Cuddington, living in 2,471 households.
What the Census says about Cuddington’s people
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Cuddington at 4,500 in 2011 and 5,300 in 2024, up 19%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 84% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
From 2011 to 2024, Cuddington outgrew 84% of UK towns: +19%
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Cuddington’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 4,500 people in 2011; 5,300 in 2024.
Change by age ran from +38% for the 30 to 44 to +3% for the 16 to 29. The biggest one-year rise was mid-2014 to mid-2015, 240 people.
26% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 77% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 7.3% of residents. As a yardstick, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Half of Cuddington’s residents are over 47.1, older than in 69% of UK towns. In Prestbury, the oldest of Cheshire’s towns by this measure, it is 33%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Cuddington, 47.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Cuddington sits below 73% of UK towns for full-time students (4.3%)
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%.
Where 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns, Cuddington has 7.5%. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Only 25% of households are one person living alone in Cuddington
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 typical household size is 2.4 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Few places have as many households with dependent children: 29% here, more than in 64% of UK towns. The benchmark for one-person households across England’s towns: 30%.
A town of detached houses: 54% of households live in one
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
The figure for households in terraced houses is 13% in Cuddington and 24% across England’s towns. On the census count, 5% of households live in a flat or apartment. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Cuddington, more than in 78% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.7%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%). Residents whose main language is English make up 90% across England’s towns. 5% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 65% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 21% of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later; here, 15%.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 88% of UK towns: 57%
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: 94% of Cuddington · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.8%), Mixed or multiple (1.4%) and Chinese (0.2%). As a reference point, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. On residents who describe themselves as White British, Cuddington sits higher than 69% of UK towns: 94%. Meanwhile, across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion is 37%; Cuddington has 36%.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 93% of UK towns, at 57%
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
For 151 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, 9.4% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 48% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 48% of Cuddington’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 10% have no qualification (18%).
Of 624 UK towns its size (4,000 to 8,000 people), the 252nd oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Cuddington in age: South Cave (47.1), North Anston (47.1), Wivenhoe (47.1) and Bourne End (47.1).
Cuddington is younger than 2 of its 7 nearest neighbours
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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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 Cuddington’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Cuddington’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 5,316 people in 2021, against 5,860 in the built-up area.
- 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 Cuddington’s residents
What is the population of Cuddington?
The 2021 Census counted 5,860 people in Cuddington’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 5,300 people in mid-2024, 19% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Cuddington?
The median age was 47.1 at the 2021 Census, older than 69% of UK towns. 8.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cuddington?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cuddington?
36% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Cuddington good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cuddington’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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