Photo: Ian Warburton · CC BY-SA 2.07.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 94% of UK towns
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 59%, against 46% across England’s towns. At 27%, the share of one-person households is lower than in 73% of UK towns. Lostock Gralam’s 1,076 households held 2,719 residents at the 2021 Census. On the census count, just over one in ten households have no car or van.
Younger than 68% of UK towns: half of Lostock Gralam is under 42.2
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 35–39, with 7.7% of residents. In Prestbury, the oldest of Cheshire’s towns by this measure, it is 33%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Lostock Gralam, 42.2. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 3.6%, a lower share than 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%.
32% of Lostock Gralam’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 28% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are scarce here: 7.7%, fewer than in 73% of UK towns. To put it in context, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
2.4 people per household, more than in 71% 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.
Set against 4.3% across England’s towns, 2.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Lostock Gralam. For Lostock Gralam, the census puts households with dependent children at 30%.
Fewer households in flats than 61% of UK towns: 8.8%
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
Nearly a fifth of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. Fewer households in detached houses than in nearly two thirds of UK towns: 23%.
A smaller share of residents whose main language is English than 64% of UK towns: 97%
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
Arrivals from 2017 on account for just over one in ten residents born abroad, beside 21% across England’s towns. As a reference point, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in the Middle East and Asia (2.7%), then in EU countries (2.4%).
Lostock Gralam ranks below 88% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 33%
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: 91% of Lostock Gralam · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 91%, against 73% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (2.5%), Indian (2.3%) and Mixed or multiple (1.4%).
34% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 60% 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
Married adults and civil partners: 46%, below 63% of UK towns. The comparison figure for adults who have never married is 39% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers: 9% of the total.
A degree-level qualification for 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 30% of Lostock Gralam’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 19% have no qualification (18%).
Of 514 UK towns its size (2,500 to 4,000 people), the 88th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Keele (20.6), the youngest, and West Chiltington (63.1), the oldest. Nearest to Lostock Gralam in age: Hendy and Fforest (42.1), Farington Moss (42.2), Langwith (42.2) and Willingham (42.2).
Lostock Gralam is younger than 6 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 Lostock Gralam’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 Lostock Gralam’s residents
What is the population of Lostock Gralam?
The 2021 Census counted 2,719 people in Lostock Gralam’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lostock Gralam?
The median age was 42.2 at the 2021 Census, younger than 68% of UK towns. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lostock Gralam?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 6.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lostock Gralam?
33% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.7% were Muslim and 6.2% didn’t answer.
Is Lostock Gralam good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lostock Gralam’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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