Photo: Peter Simpson · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 52.1: Langho is older than 92% of UK towns
Across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children is 29%; Langho has 23%. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 1,723, in 769 households. Here, nearly one in ten households live in a terraced house. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as Christian are common here: 74%, more than in 99% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Langho’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Langho’s residents are under 52.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 31% 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).
31% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
One in ten residents are aged 15 to 24; across England’s towns the figure is 12%. For comparison, 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.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 93% of UK towns: 6.5%
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%.
Full-time students make up 5.4% of adults, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Langho sits below 90% of UK towns for shared households of unrelated adults (1.6%)
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.
By its share of one-person households (27%), Langho is below 70% of UK towns. Shared households of unrelated adults make up 4.3% across England’s towns. Households average 2.3 people.
Langho ranks below 86% of UK towns on households in flats: 4.4%
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
43% of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. The share of households without a car or van stands at 10%. By way of comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
5.3% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 61% of UK towns
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
Across England’s towns, nine in ten residents have English as their main language; in Langho, 97%. The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. The largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (2.4%) and in EU countries (2.2%).
Residents with no religion make up 18% in Langho, less than in 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: 91% of Langho · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Islam is the religion of 2% of residents. Few places have so few residents who describe themselves as White British: 91% here, fewer than in 55% of UK towns. Set beside that, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners: 57%, a higher share than 94% 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
41 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Lower than in 93% of UK towns: 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. By its share of unpaid carers (9.7%), Langho is above 59% of UK towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 40% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 40% of adults in Langho (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 13% (England’s towns: 18%).
No nearby town is as old as Langho
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langho | 1,723 | — | 52.1 | 31% | 23% |
| Billington | 1,743 | 1.5 mi | 48.6 | 24% | 25% |
| Old Langho | 1,072 | 1.5 mi | 42.6 | 11% | 43% |
| Whalley | 3,411 | 2.1 mi | 49.6 | 25% | 26% |
| Great Harwood | 11,022 | 2.2 mi | 42.7 | 21% | 26% |
| Rishton | 6,653 | 2.8 mi | 42.7 | 20% | 26% |
| Clayton-le-Moors | 7,969 | 3.2 mi | 42.6 | 20% | 29% |
| Barrow | 1,388 | 3.3 mi | 43.3 | 19% | 30% |
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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 Langho’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 Langho’s residents
What is the population of Langho?
The 2021 Census counted 1,723 people in Langho’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Langho?
The median age was 52.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Langho?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 5.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Langho?
18% said they had no religion and 74% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 2% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Langho good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Langho’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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