Photo: Kevin Waterhouse · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 51.6: Ring o' Bells is older than 91% of UK towns
Compared with 30% across England’s towns, 40% of households are one person living alone here. Ring o' Bells’s 162 households held 326 residents at the 2021 Census. In Ring o' Bells, a fifth of households have dependent children. More residents who describe themselves as Christian than in 99% of UK towns: 67%.
Fewer young people than 99% of UK towns: 5.9% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 10% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 70% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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.
Ring o' Bells sits below 99% of UK towns for full-time students (1.8%)
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%.
45% of Ring o' Bells’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns. For Ring o' Bells, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 11%.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 1.2% in Ring o' Bells, less than in 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.
Households average 2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults: 4.3% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Only 7.5% of households have no car or van in Ring o' Bells
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
Compared with 23% across England’s towns, 3.8% of households live in a flat or apartment here. Typically, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 34%. At 37%, the share of households in detached houses is higher than in 70% of UK towns.
Ring o' Bells ranks above 97% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 99%
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 two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.5%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.5%). On residents born outside the UK, Ring o' Bells sits lower than 82% of UK towns: 3.7%. The benchmark for residents whose main language is English across England’s towns: 90%.
97% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 98% 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: 97% of Ring o' Bells · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Asked about religion, 29% answered none, against 37% across England’s towns. On average, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Only 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Ring o' Bells
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 5 residents. 8.2% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 80% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Here 47% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 44%.
42% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Ring o' Bells, 42% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 11% have no qualification at all (18%).
Older than Ring o' Bells: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ring o' Bells | 326 | — | 51.6 | 25% | 20% |
| Burscough | 8,773 | 1.1 mi | 44.8 | 22% | 28% |
| Parbold | 2,409 | 2 mi | 53.2 | 31% | 24% |
| Rufford | 1,562 | 2.8 mi | 52.4 | 28% | 23% |
| Skelmersdale | 34,921 | 3.4 mi | 38.4 | 16% | 31% |
| Ormskirk | 27,720 | 3.5 mi | 38.7 | 22% | 23% |
| Appley Bridge | 5,131 | 4.4 mi | 48.2 | 25% | 27% |
| Croston | 2,793 | 5.4 mi | 47.4 | 24% | 29% |
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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 Ring o' Bells’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 Ring o' Bells’s residents
What is the population of Ring o' Bells?
The 2021 Census counted 326 people in Ring o' Bells’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ring o' Bells?
The median age was 51.6 at the 2021 Census. 5.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ring o' Bells?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ring o' Bells?
29% said they had no religion and 67% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.1% didn’t answer.
Is Ring o' Bells good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ring o' Bells’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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