Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0One-person households: 22%, a lower share than 96% of UK towns
The share of households in detached houses tops 88% of UK towns: 49%. Bowgreave has fewer adults who have never married than 95% of UK towns, at 24%. There were 237 households in the village at the 2021 Census, home to 613 residents. Nearly two thirds of residents describe themselves as Christian.
Bowgreave sits above 86% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (28%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Bowgreave is 48.7, higher than in 78% of UK towns. Across Bowgreave, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. In Garstang, the oldest of Lancashire’s towns by this measure, it is 39%.
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.
Residents who moved in within the year: 19%, a higher share than 98% 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%.
By class, 50% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 13% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across England’s towns is 11%. Locally, 5.4% of adults are full-time students.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
34% of households have dependent children, a share 91% of UK towns don’t reach
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.
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Bowgreave, 2.5. On average, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Here, 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Below 93% of UK towns: 7.7% of households have no car or van
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
Across England’s towns, the share of households in flats is 23%; Bowgreave has 9.3%. As a yardstick, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 16%.
Bowgreave ranks below 90% of UK towns on residents born outside the UK: 3.1%
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 share of residents whose main language is English tops just over four fifths of UK towns: 99%. By way of comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%) and in Africa (0.7%).
Only 29% of residents said they have no religion in Bowgreave
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: 94% of Bowgreave · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Mixed or multiple (1.8%), Other White (1.5%) and African (1%). 94% of residents describe themselves as White British, a higher share than in 62% of UK towns. As a reference point, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Above 92% of UK towns: 57% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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 giving 50 hours or more a week: 11. Fewer unpaid carers than in 97% of UK towns: 6.9%. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 46% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 46% of adults in Bowgreave (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 8% (England’s towns: 18%).
Bowgreave and its 7 nearest towns: 4 of them are older
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 Bowgreave’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 Bowgreave’s residents
What is the population of Bowgreave?
The 2021 Census counted 613 people in Bowgreave’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Bowgreave?
The median age was 48.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Bowgreave?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 3.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Bowgreave?
29% said they had no religion and 65% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.3% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Bowgreave good for families?
34% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Bowgreave’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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