Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.06.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
By its share of residents who describe themselves as Christian (57%), Hooton is above 89% of UK towns. At 6%, the share of households without a car or van is lower than in 97% of UK towns. The village had 499 residents and 216 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 39.1. One-person households account for 23%.
Hooton is younger than 85% of UK towns: a median age of 39.1
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 19% here and 18% across England’s towns. The biggest five-year age group is 30–34, with one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Hooton sits below 96% of UK towns for full-time students (3.4%)
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 account for 58% of Hooton’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 8.5%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. The census found that 21% of residents lived at another address a year earlier here.
2.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, more than in 69% 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.
Here 28% of households have dependent children, where the figure across England’s towns is 29%. Each household has 2.3 people on average. Shared households of unrelated adults: 4.3% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Hooton ranks below 76% of UK towns on households in terraced houses: 14%
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
40% of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. The comparison figure for households in terraced houses is 24% across England’s towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 100% in Hooton, more than in 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 abroad were most often born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.8%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). Few places have so few residents born outside the UK: 3.8% here, fewer than in four fifths of UK towns. Typically, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Hooton: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 74% 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 Hooton · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents with no religion is 35%, against 37% across England’s towns. For comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The largest groups after White British are Mixed or multiple (1.4%), Indian (1%) and Other White (0.8%).
A larger share of married adults and civil partners than 80% of UK towns: 53%
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
7.9% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across England’s towns. Here, 31% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 50% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 50% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 6.6% hold no qualification (18%).
Median age: 6 of the 7 towns around Hooton are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hooton | 499 | — | 39.1 | 19% | 28% |
| Willaston (Cheshire West and Chester) | 2,472 | 1.3 mi | 54.9 | 33% | 21% |
| Ellesmere Port | 65,425 | 2.8 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 29% |
| Bebington | 57,607 | 3 mi | 45.1 | 23% | 27% |
| Neston | 14,963 | 3.7 mi | 50.9 | 29% | 22% |
| Saughall | 2,655 | 5.1 mi | 50.8 | 30% | 24% |
| Heswall | 29,082 | 5.9 mi | 52.2 | 31% | 23% |
| Garden City | 2,427 | 5.9 mi | 34.9 | 11% | 33% |
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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 Hooton’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 Hooton’s residents
What is the population of Hooton?
The 2021 Census counted 499 people in Hooton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Hooton?
The median age was 39.1 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Hooton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Hooton?
35% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Hooton good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Hooton’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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