Light Oaks Hall · Photo: Ian Greig · CC BY-SA 2.0Glazebury is older than 87% of UK towns: a median age of 50.4
Just over a third of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. Few places have so few households in flats: 3.6% here, fewer than in 90% of UK towns. Glazebury counted 1,094 residents and 498 households at the 2021 Census. Locally, 24% of households have dependent children.
What the Census says about Glazebury’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Glazebury’s residents are under 50.4 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 25% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over make up 25% in Glazebury, more than in 73% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: just over one in ten residents, 1.7 times the share across England’s towns. In Glazebury, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Glazebury: 5.1% of adults are full-time students, above 63% 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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 8.9% here and 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
1.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, fewer than in 79% 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.
At 2.2 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. One-person households: 30% of the total.
Fewer car-free households than 84% of UK towns: 9.7%
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
Here 32% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. One household in 10 has no car or van. Higher than in 70% of UK towns: 25% of households live in a terraced house.
Only 3% of residents were born outside the UK in Glazebury
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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.5%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). 99% of residents have English as their main language, a higher share than in 98% of UK towns. The usual figure: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
61% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 95% 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: 95% of Glazebury · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Mixed or multiple (2.4%), Other White (1.6%) and Chinese (0.3%). Elsewhere, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Higher than in 82% of UK towns: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Unpaid carers: 11%, a higher share than 80% 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
25 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. For unpaid carers, the comparison across England’s towns is 8.7%. Compared with 39% across England’s towns, 31% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here.
Degree-level qualifications: 34% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Glazebury, 34%, and 13% have none, against 18%.
Every neighbour of Glazebury has a younger population
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Glazebury’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 Glazebury’s residents
What is the population of Glazebury?
The 2021 Census counted 1,094 people in Glazebury’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Glazebury?
The median age was 50.4 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Glazebury?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Glazebury?
34% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Glazebury good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Glazebury’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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