Photo: Dave Hitchborne · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 97% of UK towns: half of Brigsley is over 55.2
Across England’s towns, 29% of households have dependent children; in Brigsley, 19%. Census day 2021: 370 residents and 165 households here. 20% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Lower than in 99% of UK towns: 0.6% of households live in a flat or apartment.
Brigsley: 33% of residents are 65 or over, above 95% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 70–74 than any other five-year age: 11% of residents, 2.4 times the share across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns. Residents aged 15 to 24 account for 7.3%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
4.3% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 74% 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%.
Nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier; across England’s towns the figure is 11%. Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Brigsley sits below 93% of UK towns for one-person households (23%)
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Lincolnshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Compared with 4.3% across England’s towns, 1.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home here. As a reference point, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. A household here holds 2.3 people on average.
Brigsley ranks below 99% of UK towns on households without a car or van: 4.9%
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
Just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, against 63% in Brigsley. By way of comparison, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns. Here, 10% of households live in a terraced house.
4.6% of residents were born outside the UK, below 70% of UK towns
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 the Middle East and Asia (2.7%) and in EU countries (1.9%). Residents born outside the UK make up 18% across England’s towns. In Brigsley, 98% of residents have English as their main language, beside 90% across England’s towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 57%, a higher share than 89% 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: 93% of Brigsley · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 73%; Brigsley has 93%. The census found that 34% of residents said they have no religion here. Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Brigsley sits above 99% of UK towns for married adults and civil partners (62%)
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
With unpaid carers at 12%, Brigsley is ahead of 98% of UK towns on that count. To put it in context, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns.
36% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
36% of Brigsley’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have none (18%).
Median age: 1 of the 7 towns around Brigsley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigsley | 370 | — | 55.2 | 33% | 19% |
| Waltham | 6,204 | 1 mi | 53.6 | 32% | 22% |
| Holton le Clay | 3,823 | 2 mi | 50.6 | 27% | 23% |
| North Thoresby | 1,090 | 3.2 mi | 57.1 | 37% | 19% |
| Humberston and New Waltham | 14,861 | 3.6 mi | 51.2 | 28% | 23% |
| Tetney | 1,536 | 3.7 mi | 53.3 | 30% | 21% |
| Laceby | 3,284 | 3.9 mi | 49.1 | 25% | 27% |
| Grimsby | 85,915 | 3.9 mi | 39.7 | 18% | 29% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Lincolnshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Lincolnshire (or England), summed the same way as Brigsley’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 Brigsley’s residents
What is the population of Brigsley?
The 2021 Census counted 370 people in Brigsley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Brigsley?
The median age was 55.2 at the 2021 Census. 7.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Brigsley?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Brigsley?
34% said they had no religion and 57% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.1% were Muslim and 6.8% didn’t answer.
Is Brigsley good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Brigsley’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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