Photo: David Long · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 8.4% of residents are 65 or over
0.8% of households live in a flat or apartment (England’s towns: 23%). Fewer one-person households than in 97% of UK towns: 21%. The 2021 Census put Wymott’s population at 2,092, in 128 households. Here, 4.2% of residents give unpaid care.
What the Census says about Wymott’s people
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16% of residents gave a different address a year before the 2021 Census, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. Students & newcomers ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 98% of UK towns: 7.2%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 30–34: 16% of residents, 2.2 times the share across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Half of Wymott’s residents are under 39.2, younger than in 84% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
8% women, 92% men
About 8 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. A large institution, such as a prison, barracks, boarding school, university or care home, can tilt a town’s split: the census counts the people living there as residents.
A lower share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns, at 1.1%
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Wymott, 13% and 39%. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%. The census found that 16% of residents lived at another address a year earlier locally.
Larger households than 88% of UK towns: 2.5 people on average
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Households with dependent children: 30% of the total.
In Wymott, 72% of households live in a terraced house, more than in 99% 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
Across England’s towns, 21% of households live in a detached house; in Wymott, 4.8%. In one household in 12 there is no car or van. Typically, nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns.
A smaller share of residents whose main language is English than 74% of UK towns: 96%
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Arrivals from 2017 on account for 5.3% of residents born abroad, beside 21% across England’s towns. Set beside that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. 7.3% of residents were born outside the UK.
No religion: 31% of residents, a lower share than 93% 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: 84% of Wymott · Lancashire’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White British are Other White (4.6%), Mixed or multiple (3.7%) and Pakistani (2.6%). 84% of residents describe themselves as White British, a lower share than in 79% of UK towns. For comparison, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Here 48% of residents describe themselves as Christian, where the figure across England’s towns is 46%.
13% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, fewer than in 99% 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
66% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership (England’s towns: 39%). The share of married adults and civil partners across England’s towns is 44%. For 9 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 20%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 20% of its adults qualified to degree level, Wymott compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 22% hold no qualification (18%).
Wymott is younger than 6 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wymott | 2,092 | — | 39.2 | 8.4% | 30% |
| Croston | 2,793 | 1.4 mi | 47.4 | 24% | 29% |
| Leyland | 39,281 | 2.3 mi | 42.7 | 20% | 27% |
| Eccleston | 4,543 | 2.5 mi | 48.9 | 27% | 27% |
| Farington Moss | 2,692 | 2.7 mi | 42.2 | 17% | 32% |
| Euxton | 17,519 | 3.3 mi | 37.9 | 15% | 35% |
| Longton | 10,912 | 3.5 mi | 50.9 | 28% | 25% |
| Tarleton and Hesketh Bank | 8,756 | 3.7 mi | 48.7 | 26% | 26% |
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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 Wymott’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 Wymott’s residents
What is the population of Wymott?
The 2021 Census counted 2,092 people in Wymott’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wymott?
The median age was 39.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 8.4% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wymott?
84% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Lancashire’s towns. 7.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wymott?
31% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 7.1% were Muslim and 7.7% didn’t answer.
Is Wymott good for families?
30% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wymott’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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