Photo: Rose and Trev Clough · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Warwick Bridge is over 52, older than 92% of UK towns
Against a figure of 29% across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children in Warwick Bridge comes in at 21%. The 2021 Census counted 1,232 residents in 578 households. Residents with no religion account for 32%. Lower than in just over four fifths of UK towns: 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
What the Census says about Warwick Bridge’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Warwick Bridge’s residents are under 52 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 30% 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).
Residents aged 65 and over make up 30% in Warwick Bridge, more than in 92% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across England’s towns is 12%. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 89 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.
6.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 87% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 30% of Warwick Bridge’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 27%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, full-time students are scarce here: 4.6%, fewer than in 59% of UK towns. The usual figure: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
A larger share of one-person households than 84% of UK towns: 34%
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.
The typical household size is 2.1 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 2.6%.
Fewer flats than 65% of UK towns: 8.2% of households
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
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 27% of households live in a detached house in Warwick Bridge. Households in flats: 23% across England’s towns, for comparison. Here, 14% of households have no car or van. Higher than in 68% of UK towns: 25% of households live in a terraced house.
Warwick Bridge sits below 95% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (2.7%)
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 nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, Warwick Bridge has 100%. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in Africa (1.1%), then in EU countries (1%).
More residents who describe themselves as White British than 98% of UK towns: 97%
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 Warwick Bridge · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian; in Warwick Bridge, 61%. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns: 73%.
11% of residents give unpaid care, a share 89% of UK towns don’t reach
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
34 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Unpaid carers: 8.7% across England’s towns, for comparison. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 51%, more than in 67% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 29% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 29% of adults in Warwick Bridge (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 19% (England’s towns: 18%).
2 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Warwick Bridge
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 Warwick Bridge’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 Warwick Bridge’s residents
What is the population of Warwick Bridge?
The 2021 Census counted 1,232 people in Warwick Bridge’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Warwick Bridge?
The median age was 52 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Warwick Bridge?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 2.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Warwick Bridge?
32% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Warwick Bridge good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Warwick Bridge’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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