Photo: Strider52 · CC BY-SA 3.0Half of Coniston is over 52.6, older than 93% of UK towns
Against a figure of 4.3% across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Coniston comes in at 1.4%. At 33%, the share of households in terraced houses is higher than in 88% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 595 residents and 282 households locally. The share of residents with no religion stands at 34%.
More residents aged 65 and over than 95% of UK towns: 33%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 8.1% here and 12% across England’s towns. Typically, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
4% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 85% 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%.
By class, 29% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. In Coniston, 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
37% of households are one person living alone, a share 94% of UK towns don’t reach
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 2.1 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. What’s more, 22% of households have dependent children, a lower share than in 88% of UK towns. The wider picture: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
19% of households live in a detached house, fewer than in 76% 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
Households without a car or van: 13%, below 62% of UK towns. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. Across Coniston, 11% of households live in a flat or apartment.
In Coniston, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 91% 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
Where 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, Coniston has 4.2%. The comparison figure for residents whose main language is English is 90% across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (1.5%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.3%).
Coniston sits above 99% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as White British (98%)
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: 98% of Coniston · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 46% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian in Coniston comes in at 58%. Measured more widely, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners: 56%, a higher share than 91% 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
Here 11% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%. The usual figure: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. In Coniston, just over a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
The share of adults with a degree-level qualification: 33%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Coniston’s adults: 33% with a degree-level qualification and 16% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
No nearby town is as old as Coniston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coniston | 595 | — | 52.6 | 33% | 22% |
| Ambleside | 2,624 | 6.1 mi | 48.5 | 25% | 15% |
| Bowness-on-Windermere | 2,290 | 6.3 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 18% |
| Windermere | 4,819 | 6.8 mi | 51 | 26% | 20% |
| Staveley | 1,466 | 10.2 mi | 48.4 | 28% | 21% |
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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 Coniston’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 Coniston’s residents
What is the population of Coniston?
The 2021 Census counted 595 people in Coniston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Coniston?
The median age was 52.6 at the 2021 Census. 8.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Coniston?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 4.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Coniston?
34% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 6.9% didn’t answer.
Is Coniston good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Coniston’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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