Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 1.4% of households live in a terraced house
Here 74% of households live in a detached house, where the figure across England’s towns is 21%. Towngate had 365 residents and 140 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 50. Across Towngate, 13% of residents give unpaid care. At 33%, the share of residents with no religion is lower than in 87% of UK towns.
Half of Towngate is over 50, older than 84% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 18% across England’s towns, 28% of residents are 65 or over in Towngate. Locally, 9.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Towngate sits below 55% of UK towns for full-time students (4.7%)
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%.
In Towngate, 47% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 9.8% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who moved in within the year at 8.5% in the village. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
18% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 99% 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.
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Towngate, 2.6. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 3.6%. 29% of households have dependent children, more than in 63% of UK towns. The usual figure: 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
A lower share of households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns, at 5%
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
One household in 20 has no car or van.
Above 99% of UK towns: 100% of residents have English as their main language
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.
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 99%, a higher share than 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: 99% of Towngate · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns, against 63% in Towngate. Against that, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
Towngate ranks above 99% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 66%
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
Compared with 39% across England’s towns, 21% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership here. Typically, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. 12 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week.
48% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 48% of its adults qualified to degree level, Towngate compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 9.8% hold no qualification (18%).
3 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Towngate
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Towngate | 365 | — | 50 | 28% | 29% |
| Eccleston | 4,543 | 1.8 mi | 48.9 | 27% | 27% |
| Parbold | 2,409 | 2.6 mi | 53.2 | 31% | 24% |
| Croston | 2,793 | 2.8 mi | 47.4 | 24% | 29% |
| Rufford | 1,562 | 3 mi | 52.4 | 28% | 23% |
| Wymott | 2,092 | 3.5 mi | 39.2 | 8.4% | 30% |
| Charnock Richard | 1,098 | 3.6 mi | 52.9 | 31% | 21% |
| Shevington Moor | 2,717 | 3.6 mi | 43 | 21% | 27% |
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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 Towngate’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 Towngate’s residents
What is the population of Towngate?
The 2021 Census counted 365 people in Towngate’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Towngate?
The median age was 50 at the 2021 Census. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Towngate?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 0% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Towngate?
33% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3% didn’t answer.
Is Towngate good for families?
29% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Towngate’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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