Photo: Peter Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 57.6: Sutton Lane Ends is older than 98% of UK towns
Compared with 29% across England’s towns, 17% of households have dependent children here. 906 residents in 436 households: that is Sutton Lane Ends at the 2021 Census. Locally, 0.9% of households live in a flat or apartment. At 20%, the share of adults who have never married is lower than in 99% of UK towns.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 36% in Sutton Lane Ends, more than in 98% 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, Sutton Lane Ends has 7.4%. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
Full-time students make up 3% in Sutton Lane Ends, less than in 99% 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%.
By class, 46% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Across England’s towns, full-time students come to 7.9%. Residents who moved in within the year: 5.3% of the total.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 93% 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.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 2.5%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. In Sutton Lane Ends, 33% of households are one person living alone.
Households in detached houses make up 47% in Sutton Lane Ends, more than in 87% 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
Just over one in ten households have no car or van (England’s towns: 24%). Locally, a fifth of households live in a terraced house. Households in detached houses: 21% across England’s towns, for comparison.
A smaller share of residents born outside the UK than 99% of UK towns: 1.9%
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 the Middle East and Asia (1%) and in EU countries (0.4%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%. Residents whose main language is English: 100% here and 90% across England’s towns.
97% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 98% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Sutton Lane Ends · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
On religion, 34% answered “no religion” and 59% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. By contrast, residents who describe themselves as Christian are more common here than in 93% of UK towns. To put it in context, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
In Sutton Lane Ends, 60% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 98% 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
Unpaid carers make up 10% of residents, against 8.7% across England’s towns. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
41% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 41% of adults in Sutton Lane Ends, 34% across England’s towns; 16% have no qualification, against 18%.
No nearby town is as old as Sutton Lane Ends
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sutton Lane Ends | 906 | — | 57.6 | 36% | 17% |
| Macclesfield | 54,352 | 1.9 mi | 44.1 | 20% | 25% |
| Bollington | 7,236 | 4.1 mi | 48.1 | 24% | 25% |
| Prestbury | 2,629 | 4.1 mi | 54.6 | 33% | 25% |
| Congleton | 30,001 | 6.6 mi | 45.4 | 23% | 26% |
| Alderley Edge | 4,496 | 6.9 mi | 50.7 | 29% | 22% |
| Woodford | 2,241 | 7.5 mi | 40.9 | 18% | 36% |
| Chelford | 1,377 | 7.6 mi | 48.2 | 29% | 21% |
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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 Sutton Lane Ends’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 Sutton Lane Ends’s residents
What is the population of Sutton Lane Ends?
The 2021 Census counted 906 people in Sutton Lane Ends’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Sutton Lane Ends?
The median age was 57.6 at the 2021 Census. 7.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 36% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Sutton Lane Ends?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 1.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Sutton Lane Ends?
34% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Sutton Lane Ends good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Sutton Lane Ends’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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