Photo: Phil Gravell · CC BY-SA 2.0Few flats: only 1.8% of households in Broughton Moor live in one
4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, against 1.5% in Broughton Moor. The village is home to 820 residents in 340 households, by the 2021 Census. Residents who describe themselves as White British account for 99%. With a median age of 42.3, Broughton Moor is younger than two thirds of UK towns.
11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 85% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
By its share of residents aged 65 and over (19%), Broughton Moor is below 70% of UK towns. Against that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Broughton Moor ranks below 91% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 6.6%
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%.
Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%; Broughton Moor has 4.4%. Elsewhere, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Larger households than 73% of UK towns: 2.4 people on average
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.
At 29%, the share of households with dependent children is in line with the figure across England’s towns. Census figures put one-person households at 30% in Broughton Moor.
Below 76% of UK towns: 11% of households have no car or van
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
27% of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. Households in terraced houses are more common here than in nearly three quarters of UK towns. For comparison, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 1.7% in Broughton Moor, less 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
Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 100% of residents have English as their main language here. For residents born outside the UK, the comparison across England’s towns is 18%. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in Africa (0.7%) and in EU countries (0.6%).
Broughton Moor: 57% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 88% 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: 99% of Broughton Moor · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
On residents with no religion, 37% here is much the same as across England’s towns. The usual figure: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Broughton Moor sits above 83% of UK towns for adults who have never married (38%)
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
Here 45% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 44%. Set beside that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 19 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Fewer unpaid carers than in 62% of UK towns: 8.9%.
Degree-level qualifications: 23% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 23% of Broughton Moor’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 21% have no qualification (18%).
6 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Broughton Moor
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broughton Moor | 820 | — | 42.3 | 19% | 29% |
| Dearham | 2,344 | 1.4 mi | 42.1 | 19% | 30% |
| Maryport | 8,526 | 1.7 mi | 45.5 | 23% | 25% |
| Great Broughton and Little Broughton | 1,763 | 1.9 mi | 47 | 23% | 26% |
| Flimby | 1,716 | 1.9 mi | 44.7 | 22% | 25% |
| Seaton | 5,051 | 3 mi | 47 | 24% | 26% |
| Stainburn | 2,120 | 3.7 mi | 48.4 | 26% | 26% |
| Cockermouth | 8,859 | 4.6 mi | 50.3 | 28% | 22% |
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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 Broughton Moor’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 Broughton Moor’s residents
What is the population of Broughton Moor?
The 2021 Census counted 820 people in Broughton Moor’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Broughton Moor?
The median age was 42.3 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Broughton Moor?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 1.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Broughton Moor?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 6% didn’t answer.
Is Broughton Moor good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Broughton Moor’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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