Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 99% of UK towns: half of Winscales is over 59.6
One-person households make up 15%, against 30% across England’s towns. Here, 22% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. 6.9% of households have no car or van, a lower share than in 95% of UK towns. In 2021, the Census found 216 residents in Winscales, living in 72 households.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 41% in Winscales, more than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (5.1%), Winscales is below 99% of UK towns. As a reference point, 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 87 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.
Winscales ranks below 98% of UK towns on 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 29% of Winscales’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 25%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. 8.9% of residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 7.9% of adults are full-time students.
21% of households have dependent children, below 93% 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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.8% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. There are 2.4 people in the average household. For households with dependent children, the comparison across England’s towns is 29%.
Households in detached houses: 35%, a higher share than 65% 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
Terraced houses are home to nearly a fifth of households, against 24% across England’s towns. Against that, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Only 2.3% of Winscales’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Across England’s towns, nine in ten residents have English as their main language; in Winscales, 100%. Residents born outside the UK: 18% across England’s towns, for comparison. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.9%) and in EU countries (0.5%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 99% of UK towns, at 99%
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: 99% of Winscales · Cumbria’s towns 95% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents who describe themselves as Christian (53%), Winscales is above 72% of UK towns. For residents who describe themselves as White British, the comparison across England’s towns is 73%. Residents with no religion account for 28%.
7.3% of residents give unpaid care, below 94% 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
3 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. The wider picture: nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Where 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns, Winscales has 48%.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 22% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 22% of adults in Winscales (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 33% (England’s towns: 18%).
Winscales is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winscales | 216 | — | 59.6 | 41% | 21% |
| High Harrington | 1,574 | 1 mi | 49.8 | 29% | 24% |
| Workington | 21,276 | 1.7 mi | 41.7 | 20% | 25% |
| Distington | 1,375 | 1.7 mi | 48.1 | 27% | 21% |
| Stainburn | 2,120 | 1.8 mi | 48.4 | 26% | 26% |
| Seaton | 5,051 | 3 mi | 47 | 24% | 26% |
| Moresby Parks | 1,180 | 4.1 mi | 43.1 | 19% | 34% |
| Great Broughton and Little Broughton | 1,763 | 5 mi | 47 | 23% | 26% |
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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 Winscales’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 Winscales’s residents
What is the population of Winscales?
The 2021 Census counted 216 people in Winscales’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Winscales?
The median age was 59.6 at the 2021 Census. 5.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 41% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Winscales?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 95% across Cumbria’s towns. 2.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Winscales?
28% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 19% didn’t answer.
Is Winscales good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Winscales’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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