Photo: Ben Brooksbank · CC BY-SA 2.0Below 99% of UK towns: 3.7% of households live in a detached house
In Aintree, just over three quarters of residents describe themselves as Christian, beside 46% across England’s towns. At the 2021 Census, 6,212 people lived locally, in 2,628 households. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 3.1%. Half of the town’s residents are over 49.2, older than in 81% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Aintree’s people
Fewer people than in 2011
ONS mid-year estimates put Aintree at 6,700 in 2011 and 6,600 in 2024, down 1%, against 10% for England: slower growth than in 87% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Many carers
679 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 11% of those 5 and over: more than in 92% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
From 2011 to 2024, 87% of UK towns grew faster than Aintree: −1%
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Aintree’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 6,700 people in 2011; 6,600 in 2024.
Of the age groups, 30 to 44 changed most (+25%) and 16 to 29 least (−24%).
Aintree sits above 80% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (27%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 9.2% here and 12% across England’s towns. To put it in context, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Aintree, 49.2. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
5.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 97% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 32% of Aintree’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 23%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. 5.2% of adults are full-time students. Elsewhere, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Larger households than 71% of UK towns: 2.4 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Merseyside’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Across England’s towns, the share of one-person households is 30%; Aintree has 28%. Few places have so few households with dependent children: 26% here, fewer than in nearly two thirds of UK towns. The census found that 2.1% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home here.
Below 83% of UK towns: 5% of households live in a flat or apartment
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
17% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. As a reference point, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Only 2.4% of residents were born outside the UK in Aintree
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
Recent arrivals (2017 or later) make up 14% of those born abroad (England’s towns: 21%). 99% of residents have English as their main language. Against that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 99% of UK towns, at 20%
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: 98% of Aintree · Merseyside’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 98%, above 99% of UK towns. Measured more widely, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
Aintree ranks above 92% of UK towns on unpaid carers: 11%
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
32% of Aintree’s adults have never married or formed a civil partnership and 51% are married, against 39% and 44% across England’s towns. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 52% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%.
Degree-level qualifications: 27% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Aintree counts 27% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 21% have no qualification (18%).
159th highest median age among 624 UK towns of 4,000 to 8,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Aintree in age: Doddington and Wimblington (49.1), Cheddar (49.1), Horncastle (49.2) and Old Tupton (49.2).
1 of the 7 nearest towns are older than Aintree
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
- 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.
- “Merseyside’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Merseyside (or England), summed the same way as Aintree’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Aintree’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 6,678 people in 2021, against 6,212 in the built-up area.
- 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 Aintree’s residents
What is the population of Aintree?
The 2021 Census counted 6,212 people in Aintree’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 6,600 people in mid-2024, about as many as in 2011.
What is the average age in Aintree?
The median age was 49.2 at the 2021 Census, older than 81% of UK towns. 9.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Aintree?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Merseyside’s towns. 2.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Aintree?
20% said they had no religion and 76% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 4% didn’t answer.
Is Aintree good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Aintree’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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