Photo: Margaret Clough · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Heath Charnock is over 54.9
Here 20% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. Higher than in 99% of UK towns: 64% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. There were 147 households in Heath Charnock at the 2021 Census, home to 362 residents. Households with dependent children account for 22%.
Heath Charnock: 32% of residents are 65 or over, above 94% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 are about as common here as across England’s towns: 12%. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students make up 5.6% in Heath Charnock, more than in 78% 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 Heath Charnock, 47% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 11% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. 7.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
20% of households are one person living alone, below 98% 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.
In Heath Charnock, 2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, beside 4.3% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of one-person households is 30%. Households average 2.5 people.
Households in terraced houses make up 0.7% in Heath Charnock, less than in 99% 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 without a car or van make up 6.8%, against 24% across England’s towns. On households in detached houses, Heath Charnock sits higher than 91% of UK towns: 52%.
Only 2.5% of residents were born outside the UK in Heath Charnock
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
The figure for residents whose main language is English is 100% in Heath Charnock and 90% across England’s towns. Residents born outside the UK: 18% across England’s towns, for comparison. The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%) and in EU countries (0.6%).
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 72%, 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: 95% of Heath Charnock · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
95% of residents describe themselves as White British; across England’s towns the figure is 73%. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (1.9%), Pakistani (1.1%) and Mixed or multiple (1.1%).
Heath Charnock sits above 99% of UK towns for unpaid carers (13%)
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 8 residents. As a reference point, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 97% of UK towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 48%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 48% of adults in Heath Charnock (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 9.3% (England’s towns: 18%).
No nearby town is as old as Heath Charnock
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heath Charnock | 362 | — | 54.9 | 32% | 22% |
| Chorley | 39,539 | 1.2 mi | 42.2 | 20% | 28% |
| Adlington | 8,777 | 1.5 mi | 46.6 | 23% | 26% |
| Coppull | 8,303 | 2 mi | 43.7 | 21% | 28% |
| Charnock Richard | 1,098 | 2 mi | 52.9 | 31% | 21% |
| Blackrod | 5,340 | 3.4 mi | 46.8 | 25% | 26% |
| Euxton | 17,519 | 3.4 mi | 37.9 | 15% | 35% |
| Whittle-le-Woods | 4,388 | 3.6 mi | 45.1 | 17% | 31% |
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 Heath Charnock’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 Heath Charnock’s residents
What is the population of Heath Charnock?
The 2021 Census counted 362 people in Heath Charnock’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Heath Charnock?
The median age was 54.9 at the 2021 Census. 12% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Heath Charnock?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 2.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Heath Charnock?
20% said they had no religion and 72% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.1% were Muslim and 6.9% didn’t answer.
Is Heath Charnock good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Heath Charnock’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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