Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 54.2: Glentham is older than 96% of UK towns
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 5.7% of households have no car or van here. The 2021 Census put Glentham’s population at 507, in 229 households. Locally, just over a fifth of households have dependent children. Lower than in 94% of UK towns: 7.4% of households live in a terraced house.
Fewer young people than 99% of UK towns: 6.7% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 10% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. 30% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 90% of UK towns. Set beside that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 95% of UK towns: 3.5% of adults are full-time students
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 Glentham, 36% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 18% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 6% of the total. Across the comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
4.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, more than in 94% of UK towns
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.
One-person households make up 29%, against 30% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Households average 2.3 people.
Glentham sits above 99% of UK towns for households in detached houses (70%)
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
With households in flats at 0.9%, Glentham is behind 99% of UK towns on that count. Across England’s towns, the share of households in detached houses is 21%.
A smaller share of residents born outside the UK than 70% of UK towns: 4.5%
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
99% of residents have English as their main language, against 90% across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2%), then in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.6%). Across England’s towns, residents born outside the UK come to 18%.
Above 92% of UK towns: 96% of residents describe themselves as White British
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 Glentham · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian tops 86% of UK towns: 56%. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White British come to 73%. For Glentham, the census puts residents with no religion at 38%.
Only 22% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Glentham
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
In Glentham, 59% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, beside 44% across England’s towns. Across Glentham, 12% of residents give unpaid care. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 35% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Glentham, 16%, while 35% hold one at degree level (34%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Glentham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glentham | 507 | — | 54.2 | 30% | 21% |
| Welton | 4,586 | 6.5 mi | 45.9 | 23% | 31% |
| Market Rasen | 4,959 | 6.6 mi | 48.5 | 27% | 23% |
| Kirton in Lindsey | 3,066 | 6.6 mi | 47.7 | 24% | 26% |
| Dunholme | 1,869 | 7.2 mi | 47 | 24% | 29% |
| Hibaldstow | 2,022 | 7.6 mi | 48.2 | 26% | 25% |
| Sturton by Stow | 1,485 | 9.2 mi | 50.2 | 27% | 24% |
| Scawby | 1,606 | 9.3 mi | 55.9 | 36% | 19% |
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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 Glentham’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 Glentham’s residents
What is the population of Glentham?
The 2021 Census counted 507 people in Glentham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Glentham?
The median age was 54.2 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Glentham?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 4.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Glentham?
38% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.7% didn’t answer.
Is Glentham good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Glentham’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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