Photo: Ian Taylor · CC BY-SA 2.0In Nether Kellet, 3% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 64%, above 98% of UK towns. Here, 0.6% of households live in a flat or apartment. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 23%, fewer than in 92% of UK towns. Nether Kellet’s 166 households held 391 residents at the 2021 Census.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 83% of UK towns: 8.6%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 65 and over: 24%, above two thirds of UK towns. On top of that, the median age in Nether Kellet is 46.9, higher than in just over two thirds of UK 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.
A higher share of full-time students than 84% of UK towns, at 6%
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%.
Residents who moved in within the year: 12%, above 89% of UK towns. For comparison, 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.
Nether Kellet sits below 79% of UK towns for shared households of unrelated adults (1.8%)
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.
28% of households have dependent children; across England’s towns the figure is 29%. The wider picture: 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
9.7% of households live in a terraced house, below 90% 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
For Nether Kellet, the census puts households in detached houses at 29%. Across England’s towns, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house.
Only 2.6% of residents were born outside the UK in Nether Kellet
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
100% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (1.5%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%).
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 96% of UK towns, at 97%
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: 97% of Nether Kellet · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Leading the other groups after White British: Mixed or multiple (1.5%), Other White (0.8%) and Indian (0.5%). Typically, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Few places have so few residents with no religion: 33% here, fewer than in 87% of UK towns.
In Nether Kellet, 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 74% 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
The share of adults who have never married trails 70% of UK towns: 30%. Nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 66% of UK towns. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Nether Kellet, 11%, while 33% hold one at degree level (34%).
3 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Nether Kellet
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nether Kellet | 391 | — | 46.9 | 24% | 28% |
| Carnforth | 5,852 | 1.4 mi | 46 | 23% | 26% |
| Bolton-le-Sands | 6,728 | 1.6 mi | 53.9 | 32% | 21% |
| Halton | 2,652 | 1.9 mi | 44.8 | 23% | 27% |
| Warton (Lancaster) | 1,801 | 2.8 mi | 54.5 | 31% | 19% |
| Caton | 2,552 | 2.8 mi | 49.6 | 28% | 24% |
| Lancaster | 52,646 | 4.3 mi | 35 | 14% | 25% |
| Morecambe | 32,745 | 4.6 mi | 45.9 | 25% | 24% |
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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 Nether Kellet’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 Nether Kellet’s residents
What is the population of Nether Kellet?
The 2021 Census counted 391 people in Nether Kellet’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Nether Kellet?
The median age was 46.9 at the 2021 Census. 8.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Nether Kellet?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 2.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Nether Kellet?
33% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 1.8% didn’t answer.
Is Nether Kellet good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Nether Kellet’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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