Photo: Victuallers · CC BY-SA 4.0Half of Long Clawson is over 52.1, older than 92% of UK towns
58% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 44% across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults account for 1.4%. At 66%, the share of households in detached houses is higher than in 98% of UK towns. Long Clawson’s 293 households held 662 residents at the 2021 Census.
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 87% of UK towns, at 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 50–54: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. 9.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Full-time students make up 6% in Long Clawson, more than in 84% of UK towns
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: 9.4%, above nearly two thirds of UK towns. The share of full-time students across England’s towns is 7.9%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Long Clawson sits below 66% of UK towns for households with dependent children (26%)
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Leicestershire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Households in Long Clawson hold 2.3 people on average (England’s towns: 2.4). Across England’s towns, households with dependent children come to 29%. For Long Clawson, the census puts one-person households at 31%.
6.8% of households have no car or van, below 96% 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
Where 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, Long Clawson has 4.7%. For comparison, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns. Census figures put households in terraced houses at 12% in the village.
Below 98% of UK towns: 2.3% of residents were born outside the UK
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
Compared with 90% across England’s towns, 99% of residents have English as their main language here. The wider picture: 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (0.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.6%).
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 99% of UK towns: 98%
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: 98% of Long Clawson · Leicestershire’s towns 66% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
35% of residents said they have no religion; across England’s towns the figure is 37%. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 73% across England’s towns, for comparison. Here, 58% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
Below 99% of UK towns: 21% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
Little separates the share of unpaid carers here, 8.9%, from the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership.
Qualified to degree level: 43% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Long Clawson’s adults: 43% with a degree-level qualification and 12% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Every nearby town is younger than Long Clawson
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Clawson | 662 | — | 52.1 | 28% | 26% |
| Waltham on the Wolds | 1,034 | 5.2 mi | 51.1 | 27% | 29% |
| Asfordby | 2,761 | 5.3 mi | 46.3 | 23% | 25% |
| Melton Mowbray | 27,451 | 5.3 mi | 44.1 | 22% | 26% |
| Cropwell Bishop | 1,903 | 5.8 mi | 49.5 | 27% | 26% |
| Cotgrave | 7,794 | 6.7 mi | 40.2 | 18% | 30% |
| Keyworth | 6,822 | 7.2 mi | 51.2 | 31% | 23% |
| Aslockton | 2,173 | 7.9 mi | 48.1 | 21% | 25% |
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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.
- “Leicestershire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Leicestershire (or England), summed the same way as Long Clawson’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 Long Clawson’s residents
What is the population of Long Clawson?
The 2021 Census counted 662 people in Long Clawson’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Long Clawson?
The median age was 52.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Long Clawson?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 66% across Leicestershire’s towns. 2.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Long Clawson?
35% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.9% didn’t answer.
Is Long Clawson good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Long Clawson’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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