Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0Families with children: 36% of households, more than in 95% of UK towns
Against a figure of 30% across England’s towns, the share of one-person households in Broughton comes in at 22%. The village counted 2,468 residents and 954 households at the 2021 Census. Across Broughton, 6.2% of households live in a terraced house. Few places have as many married adults and civil partners: 60% here, more than in 98% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Broughton’s people
A village of families
36% of Broughton’s 954 households had dependent children in 2021, more than in 95% of UK towns. 21% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
8.3% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 88% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The median age in Broughton is 42.8, lower than in 63% of UK towns. For comparison, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. In Broughton, just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over. No age band is larger than 40–44: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A student village: 5.7% of adults study full-time
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 take in 47% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 14% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns. The census found that 12% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Broughton.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Only 1.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Broughton
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.
A household here has 2.5 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. The benchmark for shared households of unrelated adults across England’s towns: 4.3%.
Below 95% of UK towns: 2.6% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
With households without a car or van at 7.4%, Broughton is behind 94% of UK towns on that count. As a reference point, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. In Broughton, 57% of households live in a detached house.
A larger share of residents born outside the UK than 78% of UK towns: 11%
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Set against 90% across England’s towns, 94% of residents have English as their main language in Broughton. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the Middle East and Asia (7.9%) and in EU countries (1.5%). To put it in context, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
Below 99% of UK towns: 20% of residents said they have no religion
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: 78% of Broughton · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Against a figure of 46% across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian in Broughton comes in at 60%. Residents who describe themselves as White British account for 78%. The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 37% across England’s towns.
Fewer adults who have never married than 90% of UK towns: 26%
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
8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 10% in Broughton. Against that, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
45% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 45% of Broughton’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 13% have no qualification (18%).
Median age: 5 of the 7 towns around Broughton 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 Broughton’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 Broughton’s residents
What is the population of Broughton?
The 2021 Census counted 2,468 people in Broughton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Broughton?
The median age was 42.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 22% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Broughton?
78% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Broughton?
20% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 8.3% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Broughton good for families?
36% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Broughton’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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