Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of residents with no religion than 97% of UK towns: 26%
The share of shared households of unrelated adults trails 95% of UK towns: 1.4%. There were 3,872 households in Longridge at the 2021 Census, home to 8,739 residents. Across Longridge, 30% of households live in a terraced house. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in nearly two thirds of UK towns.
From 2011 to 2024, Longridge outgrew 76% of UK towns: +15%
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Longridge’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 8,200 people in 2011; 9,500 in 2024.
The biggest one-year rise was mid-2021 to mid-2022, 340 people. Growth was strongest among the 65 and over (+47%) and weakest among the 0 to 15 (−2%).
23% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 62% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
With a median age of 45.4, Longridge is older than 57% of UK towns. To put it in context, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. On the census count, one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. In Garstang, the oldest of Lancashire’s towns by this measure, it is 39%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Longridge, 45.4. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
A smaller share of full-time students than 70% of UK towns: 4.4%
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Longridge has 35% and 24%. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year account for 11%.
Smaller households than 67% of UK towns: 2.2 people on average
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.
Against a figure of 30% across England’s towns, the share of one-person households in Longridge comes in at 31%.
Few flats: only 8.7% of households in Longridge live in one
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
14% of households have no car or van, against 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, households in flats come to 23%. On the census count, 30% of households live in a detached house.
In Longridge, 3.4% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 85% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
99% of residents have English as their main language; across England’s towns the figure is 90%. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.7%).
Longridge: 67% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 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 Longridge · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (1.8%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and Indian (0.2%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 95%, more than in 78% of UK towns. On average, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
More adults who have never married than 56% of UK towns: 33%
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
8.4% of residents give unpaid care, about the same as across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Married adults and civil partners: 47% of the total.
Degree-level qualifications reach 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Longridge, 33% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 16% have no qualification at all (18%).
From a median age of 34 in Grimsargh & Goosnargh to 48 in Longridge North, Ribchester & Chipping
The town’s 3 neighbourhoods (ONS middle-layer areas with 500+ residents inside it, named by the House of Commons Library), youngest first. Census 2021.
Longridge North, Ribchester & Chipping is the oldest area, with 26% aged 65 or over; Grimsargh & Goosnargh the youngest (median age 34). Families with children are most common in Grimsargh & Goosnargh (38% of households).
Ranked by age, 209th oldest of 482 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 28.4 in Tidworth to 65.3 in Barton on Sea. Nearest to Longridge in age: Wrecclesham (45.3), Dalton-in-Furness (45.4), Barton-upon-Humber (45.4) and Chapel-en-le-Frith (45.4).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Longridge are older
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 Longridge’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. Longridge’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 8,721 people in 2021, against 8,739 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 Longridge’s residents
What is the population of Longridge?
The 2021 Census counted 8,739 people in Longridge’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 9,500 people in mid-2024, 15% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Longridge?
The median age was 45.4 at the 2021 Census, older than 57% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Longridge?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Longridge?
26% said they had no religion and 67% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Longridge good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Families are most common in Grimsargh & Goosnargh (38% of households). Schools are on Longridge’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 · House of Commons Library MSOA names. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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