Photo: Mike Harris · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Mouldsworth is over 56.3, older than 98% of UK towns
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. There were 92 households in Mouldsworth at the 2021 Census, home to 205 residents. On the census count, 4.4% of households have no car or van. Residents with no religion: 31% here and 37% across England’s towns.
Fewer young people than 99% of UK towns: 6.8% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, against 27% in Mouldsworth. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 105 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 99% of UK towns: 2.7% of adults are full-time students
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: 9.8% here and 11% across England’s towns. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Mouldsworth ranks below 98% of UK towns on households with dependent children: 16%
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.
Where 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns, Mouldsworth has 16%. Across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children is 29%. In Mouldsworth, 3.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
55% of households live in a detached house, a share 93% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Households in terraced houses make up 12%, against 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%.
Mouldsworth sits above 87% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, 5.4% of residents were born outside the UK here. Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison.
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 97% of UK towns: 63%
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: 97% of Mouldsworth · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Compared with 73% across England’s towns, 97% of residents describe themselves as White British here. Against that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns, at 72%
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
Adults who have never married: 19%, below 99% of UK towns. Against that, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Across Mouldsworth, 13% of residents give unpaid care.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 45%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 45% of adults in Mouldsworth, 34% across England’s towns; 10% have no qualification, against 18%.
Every nearby town is younger than Mouldsworth
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
- “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 Mouldsworth’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 Mouldsworth’s residents
What is the population of Mouldsworth?
The 2021 Census counted 205 people in Mouldsworth’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Mouldsworth?
The median age was 56.3 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Mouldsworth?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 5.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Mouldsworth?
31% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Mouldsworth good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Mouldsworth’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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