Arrowsmith House · Photo: Devadude2 · CC BY-SA 3.0Gregson Lane is older than 93% of UK towns: a median age of 52.6
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 97% here and 73% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Gregson Lane’s population at 2,073, in 940 households. Adults who have never married: just over a quarter of the total. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in just over four fifths of UK towns.
What the Census says about Gregson Lane’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Gregson Lane’s residents are under 52.6 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 29% 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).
More residents aged 65 and over than 88% of UK towns: 29%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Young people aged 15 to 24 make up 8.8% of residents, against 12% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 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 91 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.
Gregson Lane sits below 98% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (5.7%)
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%.
4.1% of adults are full-time students (England’s towns: 7.9%). The usual figure: just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Gregson Lane ranks below 84% of UK towns on shared households of unrelated adults: 1.7%
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.
Households in Gregson Lane hold 2.2 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). Set beside that, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Locally, 30% of households are one person living alone.
6.1% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 78% 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
13% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. Typically, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. For Gregson Lane, the census puts households in terraced houses at 14%. Households in detached houses are rarer here than in 66% of UK towns.
A lower share of residents born outside the UK than 98% of UK towns, at 2.2%
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 (1.1%) and in Africa (0.5%). The usual figure: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents whose main language is English: 100% here, more than in 99% of UK towns.
A smaller share of residents with no religion than 97% of UK towns: 27%
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 Gregson Lane · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 46% across England’s towns, 67% of residents describe themselves as Christian in Gregson Lane. Against that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
More married adults and civil partners than 78% of UK towns: 53%
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: 8.7%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, married adults and civil partners come to 44%. For 56 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
A degree-level qualification for 32% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Gregson Lane, 32% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 15% have no qualification at all (18%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Gregson Lane are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregson Lane | 2,073 | — | 52.6 | 29% | 24% |
| Coup Green | 1,208 | 0.7 mi | 57.6 | 37% | 17% |
| Higher Walton | 1,607 | 1.1 mi | 39.8 | 16% | 29% |
| Bamber Bridge | 40,359 | 1.8 mi | 43.5 | 20% | 27% |
| Whittle-le-Woods | 4,388 | 3.3 mi | 45.1 | 17% | 31% |
| Brinscall | 1,332 | 3.7 mi | 49.3 | 26% | 25% |
| Farington Moss | 2,692 | 3.9 mi | 42.2 | 17% | 32% |
| Preston | 94,502 | 4 mi | 33.1 | 11% | 31% |
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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 Gregson Lane’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 Gregson Lane’s residents
What is the population of Gregson Lane?
The 2021 Census counted 2,073 people in Gregson Lane’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Gregson Lane?
The median age was 52.6 at the 2021 Census. 8.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Gregson Lane?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 2.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Gregson Lane?
27% said they had no religion and 67% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Gregson Lane good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Gregson Lane’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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