Photo: Mark Anderson · CC BY-SA 2.0A higher share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 88% of UK towns, at 57%
17% of households live in a detached house (England’s towns: 21%). On households in flats, Weaverham sits lower than nearly three quarters of UK towns: 6.6%. The 2021 Census counted 6,266 residents in 2,690 households. Residents aged 65 and over: 24% of the total.
A +3% change since 2011: slower than 70% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Weaverham’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 6,400 people in 2011; 6,600 in 2024.
The 65 and over age group moved most (+19%); the 16 to 29 group moved least (−4%). The steepest year was mid-2013 to mid-2014, up 80 people.
Weaverham is older than 61% of UK towns: a median age of 45.9
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 7.4% of residents. Few places have as many residents aged 15 to 24: 10% here, more than in 57% of UK towns. In Prestbury, the oldest of Cheshire’s towns by this measure, it is 33%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Weaverham, 45.9. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Weaverham sits below 88% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (6.8%)
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%.
28% of Weaverham’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 29% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. On full-time students, Weaverham sits higher than 53% of UK towns: 4.9%. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Weaverham households average 2.3 people, larger than in 62% 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.
One-person households make up 29%, against 30% across England’s towns. On the census count, 27% of households have dependent children. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 51% of UK towns.
Fewer car-free households than 58% of UK towns: 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
Nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house, about the same as across England’s towns. In one household in 7 there is no car or van.
4.1% born outside the UK, fewer than in 76% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.1%). Weaverham has more residents whose main language is English than 77% of UK towns, at 99%. Across England’s towns, residents born outside the UK come to 18%. Recent arrivals (2017 or later) make up 6.8% of those born abroad (England’s towns: 21%).
Weaverham: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 80% 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 Weaverham · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Other White (2.1%), Mixed or multiple (1.3%) and African (0.4%). The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns: 73%. Residents with no religion are about as common here as across England’s towns: 37%.
Above 86% of UK towns: 11% of residents give unpaid care
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: 33%, above 54% of UK towns. 226 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Fewer married adults and civil partners than in 59% of UK towns: 47%. Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%.
28% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
28% of Weaverham’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 21% have none (18%).
310th oldest of 624 UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000 people
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 18.9 in Bailrigg to 65.3 in Barton on Sea. Nearest to Weaverham in age: Brayton (45.9), Welton (45.9), Hungerford (45.9) and Fortuneswell (45.9).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 3 are older than Weaverham
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 Weaverham’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Weaverham’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 6,582 people in 2021, against 6,266 in the built-up area.
- 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 Weaverham’s residents
What is the population of Weaverham?
The 2021 Census counted 6,266 people in Weaverham’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 6,600 people in mid-2024, 3% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Weaverham?
The median age was 45.9 at the 2021 Census, older than 61% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Weaverham?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 4.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Weaverham?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 4.7% didn’t answer.
Is Weaverham good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Weaverham’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.