Photo: The original uploader was TerriersFan at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 2.5Older than 98% of UK towns: half of Aughton is over 56.5
1.6% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census counted 285 residents in 130 households. In Aughton, 4.7% of households have no car or van. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 93% of UK towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 39%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 12% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
Aughton sits above 88% of UK towns for full-time students (6.4%)
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Aughton, 54% and 12%. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. In Aughton, 8.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Smaller households than 70% of UK towns: 2.2 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Lancashire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The census found that 29% of households are one person living alone in Aughton. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are scarce here: 2.3%, fewer than in just over half of UK towns.
63% of households live in a detached house, more than in 97% 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 15% of households, against 24% across England’s towns. The usual figure: just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Below 96% of UK towns: 2.5% of 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
Here 99% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%. Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.8%) and in Africa (0.4%).
In Aughton, 22% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 99% 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: 96% of Aughton · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 72% in Aughton and 46% across England’s towns. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 96% of the total. Typically, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
A higher share of unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns, at 17%
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
Against a figure of 39% across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married in Aughton comes in at 23%. The comparison figure for unpaid carers is 8.7% across England’s towns. Married adults and civil partners account for 59%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 46%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Aughton, 46% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 14% have no qualification at all (18%). The highest qualification of 14% is A levels, often students still at university.
Every nearby town is younger than Aughton
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
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “Lancashire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Lancashire (or England), summed the same way as Aughton’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 Aughton’s residents
What is the population of Aughton?
The 2021 Census counted 285 people in Aughton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Aughton?
The median age was 56.5 at the 2021 Census. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 39% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Aughton?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 2.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Aughton?
22% said they had no religion and 72% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 2.1% didn’t answer.
Is Aughton good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Aughton’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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