Photo: Ken Brockway · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 34.6: Greylees is younger than 96% of UK towns
One-person households make up 22%, against 30% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Greylees was home to 1,989 people in 747 households. Here, 4.3% of households have no car or van. Just over half of households live in a detached house, more than in 90% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Greylees’s people
A village of families
44% of Greylees’s 747 households had dependent children in 2021, more than in 99% of UK towns. 24% of residents are under 15. Households ↓
Younger than most towns
Half of Greylees’s residents are under 34.6 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 11% are 15 to 24 and 7% are 65 or over. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Fewer residents aged 65 and over than 99% of UK towns: 7%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
45–49 is the most common age band: 9.9% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Greylees has more residents aged 15 to 24 than 85% of UK towns, at 11%. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Above 94% of UK towns: 13% of residents lived at another address a year earlier
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%.
6.5% of adults are full-time students, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year is 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Families with children: 44% of households, more than in 99% 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.
In Greylees the average household is 2.7 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. The share of households with dependent children across England’s towns is 29%. 3.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Greylees sits above 64% of UK towns for households in flats (14%)
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 Greylees, 21% of households live in a terraced house. Measured more widely, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Greylees: 8.9% of residents were born outside the UK, above 69% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
98% of residents have English as their main language (England’s towns: 90%). The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (4.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.4%). Across England’s towns, 18% of residents were born outside the UK.
Above 78% of UK towns: 45% of residents said they have no religion
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 Greylees · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, against 93% in Greylees. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as Christian at 48% locally. Residents with no religion: 37% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Only 6.7% of residents give unpaid care in Greylees
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 Greylees, 31% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, beside 39% across England’s towns. Married adults and civil partners account for 53%. Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%.
38% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 38% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 7.9% hold no qualification (18%). Many of the 27% whose highest qualification is A levels are students working towards a degree.
Every neighbour of Greylees has an older population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greylees | 1,989 | — | 34.6 | 7% | 44% |
| Sleaford | 18,028 | 1.9 mi | 43.2 | 20% | 28% |
| Leasingham | 1,552 | 3.3 mi | 59.5 | 40% | 15% |
| Cranwell | 2,583 | 3.9 mi | 37.2 | 16% | 28% |
| Ruskington | 5,650 | 5.2 mi | 51.2 | 29% | 21% |
| Heckington | 3,316 | 6.2 mi | 53.9 | 32% | 19% |
| Billingborough | 1,390 | 7.7 mi | 50.6 | 25% | 20% |
| Navenby | 3,165 | 9 mi | 52.5 | 31% | 23% |
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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.
- “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 Greylees’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 Greylees’s residents
What is the population of Greylees?
The 2021 Census counted 1,989 people in Greylees’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Greylees?
The median age was 34.6 at the 2021 Census. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 7% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Greylees?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 8.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Greylees?
45% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 4.7% didn’t answer.
Is Greylees good for families?
44% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Greylees’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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