Photo: Peter Bond · CC BY-SA 2.0Dean Row sits above 99% of UK towns for households with dependent children (44%)
15% of households are one person living alone (England’s towns: 30%). Dean Row is home to 859 residents in 303 households, by the 2021 Census. In Dean Row, 73% of households live in a detached house. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 97% of UK towns.
Dean Row ranks below 91% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 8.2%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
16% of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). Add to that, the median age in Dean Row is 39.8, lower than in just over four fifths of UK towns. The usual figure: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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.
Dean Row ranks above 75% of UK towns on full-time students: 5.5%
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%.
By class, 60% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 8% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). On residents who moved in within the year, Dean Row sits higher than 92% of UK towns: 12%. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
In Dean Row, 0.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 99% 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.
Households in Dean Row hold 2.7 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). For shared households of unrelated adults, the comparison across England’s towns is 4.3%.
A smaller share of households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 0.3%
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
Households in terraced houses: 14%, below 76% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. For Dean Row, the census puts households without a car or van at 3.6%.
In Dean Row, 14% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 84% 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
Most residents from abroad were born in the Middle East and Asia (6.4%) or in EU countries (3.1%). Dean Row has fewer residents whose main language is English than just over three quarters of UK towns, at 95%. Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK.
32% said they have no religion, fewer than in 91% 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: 77% of Dean Row · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 77% of residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%. Across the comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. 52% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
In Dean Row, 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 92% of UK towns
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 carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 11. At 6.5%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 98% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, adults who have never married come to 39%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 60%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 60% of its adults qualified to degree level, Dean Row compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 7.8% hold no qualification (18%).
Every neighbour of Dean Row has an older population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dean Row | 859 | — | 39.8 | 16% | 44% |
| Wilmslow | 25,716 | 1.2 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 29% |
| Woodford | 2,241 | 2.1 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 36% |
| Alderley Edge | 4,496 | 2.2 mi | 50.7 | 29% | 22% |
| Cheadle Hulme | 24,782 | 2.9 mi | 44.5 | 22% | 32% |
| Bramhall | 17,201 | 3.1 mi | 48.9 | 27% | 29% |
| Prestbury | 2,629 | 3.6 mi | 54.6 | 33% | 25% |
| Poynton | 13,015 | 3.7 mi | 50.7 | 30% | 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 Dean Row’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 Dean Row’s residents
What is the population of Dean Row?
The 2021 Census counted 859 people in Dean Row’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Dean Row?
The median age was 39.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 16% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dean Row?
77% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 14% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dean Row?
32% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 7.5% were Muslim and 4.1% didn’t answer.
Is Dean Row good for families?
44% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Dean Row’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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