Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 52.1: Whaplode is older than 92% of UK towns
In Whaplode, 20% of households have dependent children, beside 29% across England’s towns. There were 495 households here at the 2021 Census, home to 1,106 residents. Here, nearly three quarters of households live in a detached house. 2.2% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 99% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Whaplode’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Whaplode’s residents are under 52.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 30% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
In Whaplode, 30% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 90% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 77% of UK towns. On average, 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 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Whaplode sits below 97% of UK towns for full-time students (3.3%)
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 Whaplode, nearly a quarter of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 34% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Nearly one in ten residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
One-person households make up 27% in Whaplode, less than in 70% 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.
The figure for shared households of unrelated adults is 2.4% in Whaplode and 4.3% across England’s towns. Households average 2.2 people. As a reference point, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Households without a car or van: 12%, a lower share than 69% 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
Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Set beside that, nearly a quarter of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English: 97%, a lower share than 64% 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
18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns, against 7.4% in Whaplode. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (5.1%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.1%). To put it in context, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Above 92% of UK towns: 59% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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: 92% of Whaplode · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
33% of residents said they have no religion (England’s towns: 37%). Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 46% across England’s towns, for comparison. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (3.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.8%) and Caribbean (1%).
A smaller share of adults who have never married than 87% of UK towns: 27%
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
Married adults and civil partners make up 53%, against 44% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 43. Set beside that, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
18% of adults have qualifications at degree level
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 Whaplode, 25%, while 18% hold one at degree level (34%).
Older than Whaplode: 3 of the 7 towns nearby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whaplode | 1,106 | — | 52.1 | 30% | 20% |
| Moulton | 1,605 | 1.4 mi | 53.1 | 32% | 23% |
| Holbeach | 8,757 | 2 mi | 46.8 | 26% | 25% |
| Fleet Hargate | 1,270 | 4 mi | 56.4 | 36% | 17% |
| Moulton Chapel | 1,120 | 4.3 mi | 48.8 | 24% | 27% |
| Surfleet | 1,042 | 5 mi | 53.8 | 31% | 21% |
| Spalding | 30,552 | 5.3 mi | 40.7 | 19% | 30% |
| Pinchbeck | 4,275 | 5.5 mi | 45.6 | 26% | 27% |
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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 Whaplode’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 Whaplode’s residents
What is the population of Whaplode?
The 2021 Census counted 1,106 people in Whaplode’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Whaplode?
The median age was 52.1 at the 2021 Census. 8.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Whaplode?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 7.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Whaplode?
33% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.9% didn’t answer.
Is Whaplode good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Whaplode’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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