Photo: Kevin Cooper · CC BY-SA 2.0In Bootle, 42% of households are one person living alone, more than in 99% of UK towns
3.6% of households live in a flat or apartment (England’s towns: 23%). Locally, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British. Fewer households with dependent children than in 91% of UK towns: 21%. At the 2021 Census, 468 people lived in Bootle, in 217 households.
Older than 78% of UK towns: half of Bootle is over 48.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 7.7% of residents. On residents aged 65 and over, Bootle sits higher than 82% of UK towns: 27%. Still, across England’s towns, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 12%; Bootle has 8.9%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
Bootle ranks below 94% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.6%
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%.
At 11%, residents who moved in within the year sit close to the figure across England’s towns. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Bootle households average 2.1 people, smaller than in 88% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cumbria’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
34% of households live in a terraced house, a share 88% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Where just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, Bootle has 33%. Households without a car or van are rarer here than in 57% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
Bootle ranks above 99% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 100%
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: 3.6%, below 83% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.5%) or in the Middle East and Asia (0.9%).
Bootle sits above 95% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (61%)
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 Bootle · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
A third of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. After White British, the largest groups are Caribbean (1.3%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Other White (0.4%).
39% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, fewer than in 94% 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
9.9% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns. On average, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Census figures put adults who have never married at 36% in Bootle.
A degree-level qualification for 26% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 26% of adults in Bootle (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 20% (England’s towns: 18%).
Bootle and its 5 nearest towns: 2 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bootle | 468 | — | 48.7 | 27% | 21% |
| Millom | 5,690 | 6.6 mi | 46.4 | 22% | 24% |
| Haverigg | 1,551 | 6.6 mi | 53.2 | 30% | 17% |
| Seascale | 1,708 | 9 mi | 50 | 27% | 22% |
| Askam in Furness | 3,172 | 9.5 mi | 47.8 | 23% | 22% |
| Dalton-in-Furness | 7,551 | 11.8 mi | 45.4 | 22% | 24% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Cumbria’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cumbria (or England), summed the same way as Bootle’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 Bootle’s residents
What is the population of Bootle?
The 2021 Census counted 468 people in Bootle’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bootle?
The median age was 48.7 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bootle?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 3.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bootle?
33% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.7% didn’t answer.
Is Bootle good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bootle’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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