Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 52.7: Levens is older than 93% of UK towns
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 6.9% of households have no car or van here. Levens had 1,020 residents in 467 households at the 2021 Census. 97% of residents describe themselves as White British. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 96% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Levens’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Levens’s residents are under 52.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 31% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
6.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
31% of residents are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Levens sits below 98% of UK towns for full-time students (3.1%)
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 7.6%, below nearly three quarters of UK towns. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
In Levens, 22% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 87% 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.
Set against 30% across England’s towns, 27% of households are one person living alone in Levens. Across England’s towns, households with dependent children come to 29%. In Levens, 1.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
A village of detached houses: 50% of households live in one
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
Here 11% of households live in a terraced house, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%. Households in flats: 7.3% of the total.
Residents born outside the UK make up 3.1% in Levens, less than in 89% 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.5%) and in Africa (0.9%). Residents whose main language is English are more common here than in 90% of UK towns. For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
57% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 89% 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 Levens · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (1.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.3%) and Indian (0.1%). For comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Lower than in nearly three quarters of UK towns: 37% of residents said they have no religion.
More married adults and civil partners than 96% of UK towns: 58%
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
26 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Few places have so few unpaid carers: 7.9% here, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. For comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 44% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Levens counts 44% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 9.8% have no qualification (18%).
Of the 7 towns nearest Levens, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levens | 1,020 | — | 52.7 | 31% | 22% |
| Milnthorpe | 1,871 | 2.9 mi | 45.9 | 25% | 26% |
| Kendal | 28,939 | 4.3 mi | 46.6 | 24% | 23% |
| Holme | 1,477 | 5 mi | 47.4 | 25% | 26% |
| Arnside | 2,231 | 5.3 mi | 62.4 | 45% | 14% |
| Burton-in-Kendal | 1,341 | 6.5 mi | 49 | 26% | 28% |
| Silverdale | 1,056 | 7.2 mi | 61.5 | 43% | 14% |
| Staveley | 1,466 | 7.5 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 Levens’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 Levens’s residents
What is the population of Levens?
The 2021 Census counted 1,020 people in Levens’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Levens?
The median age was 52.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Levens?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 3.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Levens?
37% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Levens good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Levens’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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