Photo: Anthony Parkes · CC BY-SA 2.0Only 5.1% of households live in a terraced house in Fowley Common
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 89% here and 73% across England’s towns. Fowley Common is home to 781 residents in 338 households, by the 2021 Census. In Fowley Common, 37% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. On residents aged 15 to 24, Fowley Common sits lower than 63% of UK towns: 9.4%.
Only 19% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 70% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Fowley Common’s residents are under 44.1, younger than in 53% of UK towns. To put it in context, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Prestbury, the oldest of Cheshire’s towns by this measure, it is 33%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Only 4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Fowley Common
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%.
7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns, against 4.1% in Fowley Common. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across England’s towns is 11%.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 3.6% in Fowley Common, more than in 87% 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.
A household here has 2.3 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. One-person households: 29% of the total. Compared with other places, households with dependent children are scarce here: 27%, fewer than in just over half of UK towns. For shared households of unrelated adults, the comparison across England’s towns is 4.3%.
A smaller share of households in detached houses than 64% of UK towns: 24%
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
In Fowley Common, 13% of households live in a flat or apartment, beside 23% across England’s towns. Here, 17% of households have no car or van. To put it in context, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Fowley Common ranks below 80% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 95%
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
Set against 18% across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents were born outside the UK in Fowley Common. Residents whose main language is English make up 90% across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.7%) and in Africa (1.9%).
Fowley Common ranks above 67% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 53%
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: 89% of Fowley Common · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (3.7%), Mixed or multiple (3.7%) and Indian (1.2%). Few places have so few residents with no religion: 38% here, fewer than in 69% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison.
10% of residents give unpaid care, a share 74% 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
There is little gap on married adults and civil partners: 44%, about the same as across England’s towns. As a yardstick, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. 22 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 28% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 28% of adults in Fowley Common, 34% across England’s towns; 19% have no qualification, against 18%.
A younger town than 3 of the 7 around it: Fowley Common
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 Fowley Common’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 Fowley Common’s residents
What is the population of Fowley Common?
The 2021 Census counted 781 people in Fowley Common’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fowley Common?
The median age was 44.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fowley Common?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 8.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fowley Common?
38% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.9% were Muslim and 7.1% didn’t answer.
Is Fowley Common good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fowley Common’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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