Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Bonds is over 52.7, older than 93% of UK towns
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian tops 99% of UK towns: 67%. The 2021 Census counted 1,237 residents in 518 households. The census found that 48% of households live in a detached house in Bonds. At 4.8%, the share of households in flats is lower than in 84% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Bonds’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Bonds’s residents are under 52.7 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 28% 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).
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 87% of UK towns: 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 9.5% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Locally, 9.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24. 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.
Below 72% of UK towns: 7.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
45% of Bonds’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. In Bonds, 5% of adults are full-time students. Across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
24% of households have dependent children, below 77% of UK towns
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.
Set against 4.3% across England’s towns, 2.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Bonds. One-person households are rarer here than in 79% of UK towns. The benchmark for households with dependent children across England’s towns: 29%. Each household has 2.3 people on average.
Bonds ranks below 92% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 7.9%
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
The share of households in terraced houses tops 54% of UK towns: 21%. Against that, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
3.7% of residents were born outside the UK, below 81% 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 largest groups were born in EU countries (1.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). Compared with other places, residents whose main language is English are common here: 99%, more than in 85% of UK towns. Typically, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Bonds ranks below 96% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 28%
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 Bonds · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 97% in Bonds and 73% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. After White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.3%), Chinese (0.7%) and African (0.1%).
Fewer adults who have never married than 84% of UK towns: 27%
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 are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 8.4%. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 54% here, more than in 84% of UK towns. Adults who have never married make up 39% across England’s towns.
44% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 44% of its adults qualified to degree level, Bonds compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 12% hold no qualification (18%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Bonds
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Bonds’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 Bonds’s residents
What is the population of Bonds?
The 2021 Census counted 1,237 people in Bonds’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bonds?
The median age was 52.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bonds?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bonds?
28% said they had no religion and 67% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Bonds good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bonds’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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