Photo: Howard Quinn · CC BY-SA 2.01.2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, below 98% of UK towns
Where 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns, Lazonby has 58%. 946 residents in 414 households: that is Lazonby at the 2021 Census. In Lazonby, 97% of residents describe themselves as White British. Compared with other places, residents aged 15 to 24 are scarce here: 7.9%, fewer than in 94% of UK towns.
Half of Lazonby is over 47.8, older than 73% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 8.4% of residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 25%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 6% in Lazonby, less than in 97% 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, 42% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 20% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). In Lazonby, 4% of adults are full-time students. Elsewhere, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Lazonby ranks below 77% of UK towns on one-person households: 27%
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.
Against a figure of 29% across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children in Lazonby comes in at 26%. One-person households make up 30% across England’s towns. Households here average 2.3 people each.
Only 8.2% of households in Lazonby 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
47% of households live in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. In one household in 12 there is no car or van. Households in flats are rarer here than in 78% of UK towns.
Only 1.6% of residents were born outside the UK in Lazonby
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 largest groups were born in EU countries (0.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.4%). Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. 100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% of UK towns.
Lazonby ranks above 79% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 55%
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 Lazonby · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 37% across England’s towns, two in five residents said they have no religion in Lazonby. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 93% of UK towns: 25%
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: 14. The comparison figure for adults who have never married is 39% across England’s towns. Lazonby has fewer unpaid carers than 70% of UK towns, at 8.6%.
40% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 40% of adults in Lazonby (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 13% (England’s towns: 18%).
Lazonby and its 5 nearest towns: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lazonby | 946 | — | 47.8 | 25% | 26% |
| Penrith | 16,705 | 6.1 mi | 46.2 | 23% | 22% |
| Wetheral | 1,129 | 10.5 mi | 58.5 | 37% | 17% |
| Alston | 1,075 | 11.5 mi | 51.1 | 26% | 20% |
| Warwick Bridge | 1,232 | 11.7 mi | 52 | 30% | 21% |
| Scotby | 1,830 | 11.9 mi | 53.3 | 32% | 23% |
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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 Lazonby’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 Lazonby’s residents
What is the population of Lazonby?
The 2021 Census counted 946 people in Lazonby’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lazonby?
The median age was 47.8 at the 2021 Census. 7.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lazonby?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 1.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lazonby?
40% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Lazonby good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lazonby’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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