Photo: Kevin Waterhouse · CC BY-SA 2.0Grimsargh ranks above 93% of UK towns on households with dependent children: 35%
The share of households without a car or van trails 96% of UK towns: 6.8%. In Grimsargh, 24% of residents said they have no religion. This Lancashire town has more married adults and civil partners than 94% of UK towns, at 57%. Census day 2021: 2,594 residents and 1,024 households here.
What the Census says about Grimsargh’s people
A town of families
35% of Grimsargh’s 1,024 households had dependent children in 2021, more than in 93% of UK towns. 20% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Grimsargh at 2,500 in 2011 and 3,300 in 2024, up 31%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 94% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Since 2011, Grimsargh has grown +31%, faster than 94% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Grimsargh’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 2,500 people in 2011; 3,300 in 2024.
The biggest one-year rise was mid-2023 to mid-2024, 220 people. The 16 to 29 age group moved most (+48%); the 30 to 44 group moved least (+13%).
Grimsargh is younger than 62% of UK towns: a median age of 42.9
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 20% in Grimsargh and 18% across England’s towns. More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. At 10%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is higher than in 62% of UK towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Grimsargh, 42.9. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Grimsargh sits above 73% of UK towns for full-time students (5.4%)
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 44% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 15% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). 8.8% of residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
A smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 97% of UK towns: 1.3%
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.
Nearly a quarter of households are one person living alone; across England’s towns the figure is 30%. Across England’s towns, shared households of unrelated adults come to 4.3%.
Fewer households in flats than 84% of UK towns: 4.8%
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 detached houses make up 42%, against 21% across England’s towns. On average, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. For Grimsargh, the census puts households in terraced houses at 13%.
Only 3.8% of Grimsargh’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Recent arrivals (2017 or later) make up just over a fifth of those born abroad (England’s towns: 21%). The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Locally, 99% of residents have English as their main language.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 69%, a higher share than 99% 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: 94% of Grimsargh · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Mixed or multiple (1.5%), Other White (1.4%) and Indian (1%). The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns: 46%. More residents who describe themselves as White British than in 70% of UK towns: 94%.
In Grimsargh, 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 80% 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
Some 46 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. To put it in context, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are rarer here than in 84% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 40% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 40% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 12% hold no qualification (18%).
Of 514 UK towns its size (2,500 to 4,000 people), the 108th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 20.6 in Keele to 63.1 in West Chiltington. Nearest to Grimsargh in age: Long Itchington (42.8), Ogmore Vale (42.8), Cliffe (42.9) and Shevington Moor (43).
Grimsargh is younger than 4 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsargh | 2,594 | — | 42.9 | 20% | 35% |
| Goosnargh | 1,892 | 2.2 mi | 44.5 | 23% | 30% |
| Longridge | 8,739 | 2.3 mi | 45.4 | 23% | 26% |
| Broughton | 2,468 | 3.5 mi | 42.8 | 22% | 36% |
| Preston | 94,502 | 3.5 mi | 33.1 | 11% | 31% |
| Fulwood | 34,693 | 3.8 mi | 43.5 | 22% | 28% |
| Coup Green | 1,208 | 4.2 mi | 57.6 | 37% | 17% |
| Higher Walton | 1,607 | 4.2 mi | 39.8 | 16% | 29% |
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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 Grimsargh’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Grimsargh’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 2,800 people in 2021, against 2,594 in the built-up area.
- 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 Grimsargh’s residents
What is the population of Grimsargh?
The 2021 Census counted 2,594 people in Grimsargh’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 3,300 people in mid-2024, 31% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Grimsargh?
The median age was 42.9 at the 2021 Census, younger than 62% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Grimsargh?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Grimsargh?
24% said they had no religion and 69% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.9% were Muslim and 4.5% didn’t answer.
Is Grimsargh good for families?
35% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Grimsargh’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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