Photo: Gary Rogers · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 53: Mawdesley is older than 94% of UK towns
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 66%, against 46% across England’s towns. In 2021, the Census found 914 residents in Mawdesley, living in 403 households. Across Mawdesley, 22% of households have dependent children. Few places have so few adults who have never married: 23% here, fewer than in 97% of UK towns.
Mawdesley sits above 94% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (32%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, against 9% in Mawdesley. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
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.
Mawdesley ranks below 81% of UK towns on full-time students: 4.1%
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; Mawdesley has 44% and 18%. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. The share of residents who moved in within the year stands at 9.3%.
Only 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home in Mawdesley
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.
A household here has 2.2 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. As a yardstick, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. The census found that 29% of households are one person living alone in Mawdesley.
A lower share of households without a car or van than 87% of UK towns, at 9%
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
Where nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Mawdesley has 16%. One household in 11 has no car or van. Few places have as many households in detached houses: 43% here, more than in 82% of UK towns.
Residents born outside the UK make up 2.2% in Mawdesley, less than in 98% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (0.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%). Mawdesley has more residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns, at 100%. On average, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
No religion: 28% of residents, a lower share than 96% 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: 96% of Mawdesley · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White British tops 93% of UK towns: 96%. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (1.7%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Caribbean (0.3%). The benchmark for residents with no religion across England’s towns: 37%.
56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 90% 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
8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns, against 10% in Mawdesley. Elsewhere, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Among adults, 44% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Mawdesley counts 44% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 15% have no qualification (18%).
Older than Mawdesley: 1 of the 7 towns nearby
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 Mawdesley’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 Mawdesley’s residents
What is the population of Mawdesley?
The 2021 Census counted 914 people in Mawdesley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Mawdesley?
The median age was 53 at the 2021 Census. 9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 32% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Mawdesley?
96% 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 Mawdesley?
28% said they had no religion and 66% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Mawdesley good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Mawdesley’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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