Photo: Richard Croft · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 29.4: Scampton is younger than 99% of UK towns
The share of households without a car or van is 1%, against 24% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census Scampton was home to 611 people in 213 households. Locally, 5.3% of households live in a detached house. On adults who have never married, Scampton sits higher than 96% of UK towns: 45%.
Only 1.8% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24; in Scampton, 16%. More residents are 25–29 than any other five-year age: 14% of residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
45% women, 55% men
About 82 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 higher share of residents who moved in within the year than 95% of UK towns, at 14%
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%.
Just over a third of Scampton’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 26% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Full-time students: 4.7% of the total.
Above 98% of UK towns: 40% of households have dependent children
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.
Here 2.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across England’s towns is 4.3%. Households with dependent children make up 29% across England’s towns. In Scampton, a quarter of households are one person living alone.
Scampton sits below 99% of UK towns for households in flats (0.5%)
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
Households in terraced houses: 45% here and 24% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment.
Scampton sits above 91% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 6.7% in Scampton. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.6%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.3%). To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Scampton: 51% of residents said they have no religion, above 95% 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: 95% of Scampton · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Where 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, Scampton has 95%. The census found that 44% of residents describe themselves as Christian locally. Typically, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Only 4.8% of residents give unpaid care in Scampton
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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 10 residents. 42% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. Across the comparison, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 27% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 27% of its adults qualified to degree level, Scampton compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 4.9% hold no qualification (18%).
Scampton is younger than every town around it
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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 Scampton’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 Scampton’s residents
What is the population of Scampton?
The 2021 Census counted 611 people in Scampton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Scampton?
The median age was 29.4 at the 2021 Census. 16% of residents were 15 to 24 and 1.8% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Scampton?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 6.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Scampton?
51% said they had no religion and 44% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Scampton good for families?
40% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Scampton’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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