Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Greystoke is over 56
The share of households without a car or van trails 96% of UK towns: 6.7%. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 1.5% here, fewer than in 91% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 686 people lived in Greystoke, in 330 households. 4.2% of households live in a flat or apartment.
In Greystoke, 6.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. The census found that 33% of residents are 65 or over in Greystoke.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 3%, a lower share than 99% 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Greystoke has 41% and 17%. Higher than in 63% of UK towns: 9.4% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
Only 15% of households have dependent children in Greystoke
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.
Households average 2.1 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. The wider picture: 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. In Greystoke, just over a third of households are one person living alone.
Greystoke ranks above 86% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 46%
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 in terraced houses make up 21%, against 24% across England’s towns.
Greystoke 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1%). For comparison, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Lower than in 84% of UK towns: 3.5% of residents were born outside the UK.
Greystoke: 97% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 97% 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: 97% of Greystoke · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents who describe themselves as Christian (57%), Greystoke is above 89% of UK towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 73% across England’s towns, for comparison. Here, 36% of residents said they have no religion.
26% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 89% 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
52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 44% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers: 11% of the total.
A degree-level qualification for 46% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 46% of adults in Greystoke, 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification, against 18%.
Greystoke is older than every town around it
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
- “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 Greystoke’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 Greystoke’s residents
What is the population of Greystoke?
The 2021 Census counted 686 people in Greystoke’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Greystoke?
The median age was 56 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Greystoke?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 3.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Greystoke?
36% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Greystoke good for families?
15% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Greystoke’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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