Photo: Alan Fleming · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Gawsworth is over 55.9, older than 97% of UK towns
The share of households with dependent children is 17%, against 29% across England’s towns. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 1.6% here, fewer than in 87% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 676 residents and 306 households in Gawsworth. Across Gawsworth, 63% of households live in a detached house.
Gawsworth: 35% of residents are 65 or over, above 97% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Gawsworth has 10%. Typically, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 87 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.
6.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 94% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 49% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 17% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). In Gawsworth, 4% of adults are full-time students. Residents who moved in within the year make up 11% across England’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 76% 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.
On the census count, 29% of households are one person living alone.
2.6% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 95% 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, 10% of households have no car or van in Gawsworth. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are scarce here: 12%, fewer than in 83% of UK towns. The benchmark for households in flats across England’s towns: 23%.
Residents whose main language is English: 100%, a higher share than 99% 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
Residents born outside the UK make up 3.9%, against 18% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.5%) and in EU countries (1%).
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 93% of UK towns: 59%
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 Gawsworth · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Other White (3.4%), Mixed or multiple (2.2%) and Indian (0.3%). To put it in context, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Lower than in 83% of UK towns: 35% of residents said they have no religion. Meanwhile, with residents who describe themselves as White British at 94%, Gawsworth is ahead of 62% of UK towns on that count.
Gawsworth sits below 97% of UK towns for adults who have never married (23%)
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
9.9% of residents give unpaid care (England’s towns: 8.7%). For adults who have never married, the comparison across England’s towns is 39%. Here, nearly three in five adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Qualified to degree level: 44% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 44% of adults in Gawsworth, 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification, against 18%.
No nearby town is as old as Gawsworth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gawsworth | 676 | — | 55.9 | 35% | 17% |
| Macclesfield | 54,352 | 2.4 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 25% |
| Prestbury | 2,629 | 4.2 mi | 54.6 | 33% | 25% |
| Congleton | 30,001 | 4.9 mi | 45.4 | 23% | 26% |
| Bollington | 7,236 | 5.1 mi | 48.1 | 24% | 25% |
| Chelford | 1,377 | 5.6 mi | 48.2 | 29% | 21% |
| Alderley Edge | 4,496 | 5.7 mi | 50.7 | 29% | 22% |
| Wilmslow | 25,716 | 7.3 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 29% |
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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 Gawsworth’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 Gawsworth’s residents
What is the population of Gawsworth?
The 2021 Census counted 676 people in Gawsworth’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Gawsworth?
The median age was 55.9 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Gawsworth?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 3.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Gawsworth?
35% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Gawsworth good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Gawsworth’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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