Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Great Eccleston is over 52.3, older than 93% of UK towns
The share of residents with no religion trails 96% of UK towns: 28%. Households in flats account for 1.8%. 9% of households have no car or van, a lower share than in 87% of UK towns. The 2021 Census counted 2,073 residents in 929 households.
What the Census says about Great Eccleston’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Great Eccleston’s residents are under 52.3 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
247 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 12% 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).
6.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 65 and over is 29%, against 18% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
Only 3.9% of adults are full-time students in Great Eccleston
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%.
42% of Great Eccleston’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 17% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Locally, 14% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Households with dependent children: 23%, a lower share than 85% 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.
At 2.2 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. On the census count, just over a quarter of households are one person living alone. Higher than in 70% of UK towns: 2.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. The usual figure: 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
48% of households live in a detached house, a share 88% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Where nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Great Eccleston has 12%. Across England’s towns, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns: 100%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in Africa (0.6%). Few places have so few residents born outside the UK: 3.2% here, fewer than in 88% of UK towns. The usual figure: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
More residents who describe themselves as White British than 99% of UK towns: 98%
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: 98% of Great Eccleston · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Just over two thirds of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Unpaid carers: 12%, a higher share than 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
52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership (England’s towns: 44%). Still, at 27%, the share of adults who have never married is lower than in 84% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 79 people.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 37% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 37% of adults in Great Eccleston, 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification, against 18%.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Great Eccleston
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
- “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 Great Eccleston’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 Great Eccleston’s residents
What is the population of Great Eccleston?
The 2021 Census counted 2,073 people in Great Eccleston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Great Eccleston?
The median age was 52.3 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Great Eccleston?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 3.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Great Eccleston?
28% said they had no religion and 68% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 3.9% didn’t answer.
Is Great Eccleston good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Great Eccleston’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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