Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer households in flats than 93% of UK towns: 3%
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%; Winwick has 64%. The share of households in detached houses stands at 54%. On one-person households, Winwick sits lower than 90% of UK towns: 24%. There were 823 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 2,062 residents.
Winwick is older than 67% of UK towns: a median age of 46.8
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Here, 20% of residents are 65 or over. Winwick has more residents aged 15 to 24 than 56% of UK towns, at 10%.
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.
6.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 86% 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%.
48% of Winwick’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. On the census count, 6% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.5 people per household, more than in 87% 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 Winwick. The share of households with dependent children stands at 31%.
A smaller share of households without a car or van than 91% of UK towns: 8.2%
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
Here 12% of households live in a terraced house, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 72% of UK towns don’t reach
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 born outside the UK: 4.7%, below 68% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%.
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 95% of UK towns: 28%
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: 93% of Winwick · Cheshire’s towns 90% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and Indian (1.1%). Winwick has more residents who describe themselves as White British than 54% of UK towns, at 93%. On average, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Above 92% of UK towns: 57% of adults are married or in 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
Some 41 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. To put it in context, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. On adults who have never married, Winwick sits lower than 89% of UK towns: 26%. Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 9.5%, from the figure across England’s towns.
43% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Winwick, 43%, and 13% have none, against 18%.
Winwick sits below 3 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winwick | 2,062 | — | 46.8 | 20% | 31% |
| Croft | 1,520 | 2.1 mi | 48.6 | 24% | 29% |
| Newton-le-Willows | 24,651 | 2.1 mi | 38.1 | 15% | 29% |
| Burtonwood | 3,504 | 2.2 mi | 49.7 | 28% | 24% |
| Warrington | 174,968 | 2.4 mi | 41.6 | 18% | 28% |
| Golborne | 25,563 | 3.3 mi | 43.5 | 21% | 28% |
| Culcheth | 6,722 | 3.8 mi | 50 | 25% | 27% |
| Haydock | 16,143 | 4 mi | 45.9 | 23% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Winwick’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 Winwick’s residents
What is the population of Winwick?
The 2021 Census counted 2,062 people in Winwick’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Winwick?
The median age was 46.8 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Winwick?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 90% across Cheshire’s towns. 4.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Winwick?
28% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.3% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Winwick good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Winwick’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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