Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0Above 97% of UK towns: 53% of residents said they have no religion
With households in terraced houses at 33%, Four Lanes is ahead of 87% of UK towns on that count. Census day 2021: 1,579 residents and 660 households locally. One-person households account for 25%. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 5%, fewer than in 83% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Four Lanes’s people
More with no religion than most
53% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 39% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
A median age of 41: Four Lanes is younger than 75% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 10–14: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Lower than in 72% of UK towns: 19% of residents are 65 or over. Here, 9.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Only 6.1% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Four Lanes
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%.
The share of full-time students tops 64% of UK towns: 5.1%. By way of comparison, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Above 80% of UK towns: 31% of households have dependent children
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cornwall’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households average 2.4 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children is 29%. On the census count, 2.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Households without a car or van: 8.7%, a lower share than 89% 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
Against a figure of 21% across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Four Lanes comes in at 32%. The comparison figure for households without a car or van is 24% across England’s towns.
In Four Lanes, 1.7% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 99% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.1%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.3%). Higher than in 71% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language. For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
39% describe themselves as Christian, fewer than in 94% 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: 94% of Four Lanes · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Four Lanes has 94%. Elsewhere, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (2.3%), Mixed or multiple (0.7%) and Chinese (0.3%).
Four Lanes ranks above 61% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 34%
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 giving 50 hours or more a week: 46. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are scarce here: 45%, fewer than in two thirds of UK towns. The benchmark for adults who have never married across England’s towns: 39%. With unpaid carers at 9.7%, Four Lanes is ahead of 59% of UK towns on that count.
22% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 22% of adults in Four Lanes, 34% across England’s towns; 19% have no qualification, against 18%.
No nearby town is as young as Four Lanes
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
- 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.
- “Cornwall’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cornwall (or England), summed the same way as Four Lanes’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 Four Lanes’s residents
What is the population of Four Lanes?
The 2021 Census counted 1,579 people in Four Lanes’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Four Lanes?
The median age was 41 at the 2021 Census. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Four Lanes?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 1.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Four Lanes?
53% said they had no religion and 39% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.5% didn’t answer.
Is Four Lanes good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Four Lanes’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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