Photo: Espresso Addict · CC BY-SA 4.0Older than 98% of UK towns: half of Weston is over 57
With households in flats at 1.8%, Weston is behind 97% of UK towns on that count. Census figures put households with dependent children at 18% in the village. The village has more households in detached houses than 96% of UK towns, at 60%. There were 391 households in the village at the 2021 Census, home to 789 residents.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 98% of UK towns: 37%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
6.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24, against 12% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Weston sits below 88% of UK towns for full-time students (3.8%)
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%.
35% of Weston’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 22% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The census found that 9.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in the village. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households here average 2 people, below 97% 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 trails 91% of UK towns: 1.5%. Across Weston, 33% of households are one person living alone.
13% of households live in a terraced house, below 78% 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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 11% of households have no car or van in Weston.
Fewer residents born abroad than 82% of UK towns: 3.7%
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 whose main language is English: 99%, above 81% of UK towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.4%).
61% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 95% 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: 96% of Weston · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 37% across England’s towns, the share of residents with no religion in Weston comes in at 34%. Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian. Residents who describe themselves as White British account for 96%.
Below 97% of UK towns: 23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
Where 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, Weston has 11%. On average, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Census figures put married adults and civil partners at 57% locally.
Among adults, 31% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Weston counts 31% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 20% have no qualification (18%).
Weston is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weston | 789 | — | 57 | 37% | 18% |
| Shavington | 4,972 | 1.8 mi | 46.5 | 24% | 25% |
| Haslington | 5,042 | 2.4 mi | 49.2 | 25% | 25% |
| Crewe | 74,116 | 3 mi | 38.7 | 16% | 29% |
| Willaston (Cheshire East) | 3,653 | 3.2 mi | 44.9 | 23% | 28% |
| Winterley | 1,371 | 3.4 mi | 48.8 | 23% | 28% |
| Audley | 1,984 | 4.3 mi | 42.2 | 19% | 28% |
| Alsager | 15,504 | 4.5 mi | 47.2 | 27% | 26% |
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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 Weston’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 Weston’s residents
What is the population of Weston?
The 2021 Census counted 789 people in Weston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Weston?
The median age was 57 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 37% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Weston?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Weston?
34% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Weston good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Weston’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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