Photo: John H Darch · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in terraced houses: 67%, a higher share than 99% of UK towns
The share of married adults and civil partners is 40%, against 44% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Stubbins’s population at 827, in 384 households. The census found that 13% of households live in a detached house in the village. Just over a third of households are one person living alone, a higher share than in 84% of UK towns.
8.2% of residents are aged 15 to 24, below 90% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Half of Stubbins’s residents are over 46.9, older than in just over two thirds of UK towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over: 20% of the total. The largest age band is 50–54: 9.3% of residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Only 7.7% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Stubbins
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%.
Just over two fifths of Stubbins’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 21% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. More full-time students than in just over three fifths of UK towns: 5.1%. Residents who moved in within the year make up 11% across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 95% 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.
3.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Census figures put households with dependent children at 24% in Stubbins.
Fewer car-free households than 70% of UK towns: 12%
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
10% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. The benchmark for households without a car or van across England’s towns: 24%.
Stubbins sits below 92% of UK towns for residents born outside the UK (2.9%)
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 share of residents whose main language is English is 99%, against 90% across England’s towns. Residents born outside the UK: 18% across England’s towns, for comparison.
In Stubbins, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 84% 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 Stubbins · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.2%) and Bangladeshi (0.6%). Measured more widely, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Stubbins has more residents with no religion than just over two thirds of UK towns, at 43%. What’s more, half of residents describe themselves as Christian, against 46% across England’s towns.
In Stubbins, 36% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 72% 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
Against a figure of 8.7% across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers in Stubbins comes in at 7.6%. Across the comparison, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 12 people.
38% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 38% of its adults qualified to degree level, Stubbins compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 13% hold no qualification (18%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Stubbins are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stubbins | 827 | — | 46.9 | 20% | 24% |
| Edenfield | 2,048 | 0.8 mi | 44.9 | 21% | 28% |
| Ramsbottom | 17,074 | 1.6 mi | 46.7 | 23% | 28% |
| Haslingden | 16,005 | 2.8 mi | 42.7 | 20% | 30% |
| Edgworth | 1,649 | 3.4 mi | 52.9 | 27% | 24% |
| Rawtenstall | 23,683 | 3.5 mi | 42.7 | 19% | 29% |
| Bury | 81,115 | 4.6 mi | 40.5 | 18% | 30% |
| Ainsworth | 1,595 | 5.2 mi | 46.8 | 23% | 26% |
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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 Stubbins’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 Stubbins’s residents
What is the population of Stubbins?
The 2021 Census counted 827 people in Stubbins’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Stubbins?
The median age was 46.9 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 20% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Stubbins?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Stubbins?
43% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Stubbins good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Stubbins’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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