Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0Older than 96% of UK towns: half of Cleveleys is over 54.3
Here just over a third of households are one person living alone, where the figure across England’s towns is 30%. At the 2021 Census, 11,121 people lived in Cleveleys, in 5,285 households. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 7.8%. This Lancashire town has more households without a car or van than 76% of UK towns, at 21%.
What the Census says about Cleveleys’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Cleveleys’s residents are under 54.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 33% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
1,381 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 13% of those 5 and over: more than in 99% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Residents aged 65 and over: 33%, a higher share than 95% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 8.3% in Cleveleys and 12% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Cleveleys, 54.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
Full-time students: 4.4%, a lower share than 71% 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%.
In Cleveleys, 27% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 26% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year account for 8.4%. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
Cleveleys ranks below 96% of UK towns on households with dependent children: 19%
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 figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 2.7% in Cleveleys and 4.3% across England’s towns. Average household size: 2.1 people. For households with dependent children, the comparison across England’s towns is 29%.
19% of households live in a detached house, below 75% 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
Households in flats: 11% of the total. To put it in context, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born outside the UK than 83% of UK towns: 3.6%
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
Born abroad and arrived since 2017: 9.6% of that group, against 21% across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Across Cleveleys, 99% of residents have English as their main language.
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 96% in Cleveleys, more than in 91% 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 Cleveleys · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and Bangladeshi (0.3%). As a yardstick, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Lower than in 84% of UK towns: 34% of residents said they have no religion. Christians make up 59% of residents, against 46% across England’s towns.
Cleveleys: 13% of residents give unpaid care, above 99% 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
Adults who have never married: 28% here and 39% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. 478 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 24%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Cleveleys counts 24% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 23% have no qualification (18%).
From a median age of 53 in Cleveleys West to 58 in Fleetwood South East
The town’s 3 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Fleetwood South East is the oldest area, with 35% aged 65 or over; Cleveleys West the youngest (median age 53). Families with children are most common in Cleveleys West (19% of households).
397 UK towns of 8,000 to 15,000 people: this is the 12th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
The youngest is Aberystwyth (25) and the oldest Sidmouth (60.4). Nearest to Cleveleys in age: Bewdley (53.5), Emsworth (54.1), Minehead (54.3) and Hornsea (54.6).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Cleveleys
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveleys | 11,121 | — | 54.3 | 33% | 19% |
| Thornton | 19,263 | 1.3 mi | 48.8 | 26% | 25% |
| Fleetwood | 26,224 | 2.3 mi | 44.4 | 23% | 26% |
| Carleton | 4,793 | 2.3 mi | 52.2 | 29% | 24% |
| Hambleton | 2,428 | 3.2 mi | 51.8 | 32% | 23% |
| Poulton-le-Fylde | 12,792 | 3.4 mi | 50.9 | 29% | 22% |
| Stalmine | 1,193 | 3.5 mi | 49.1 | 27% | 25% |
| Preesall and Knott End-on-Sea | 4,679 | 4 mi | 57.9 | 38% | 17% |
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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 Cleveleys’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 Cleveleys’s residents
What is the population of Cleveleys?
The 2021 Census counted 11,121 people in Cleveleys’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cleveleys?
The median age was 54.3 at the 2021 Census, older than 96% of UK towns. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cleveleys?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 3.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cleveleys?
34% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Cleveleys good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Cleveleys West (19% of households). Schools are on Cleveleys’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) · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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