Photo: John Bradley · CC BY-SA 3.0Lydiate ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 22%
Compared with 29% across England’s towns, 23% of households have dependent children here. Households in terraced houses are rarer here than in 95% of UK towns. Lydiate had 6,516 residents in 2,848 households at the 2021 Census. On the census count, 27% of residents are 65 or over.
What the Census says about Lydiate’s people
Fewer people than in 2011
ONS mid-year estimates put Lydiate at 6,900 in 2011 and 6,700 in 2024, down 3%, against 10% for England: slower growth than in 94% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Many carers
750 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 12% of those 5 and over: more than in 96% 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.
Slower growth than 94% of UK towns: Lydiate changed by −3% since 2011
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Lydiate’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 6,900 people in 2011; 6,700 in 2024.
Change by age ran from +12% for the 65 and over to −15% for the 45 to 64.
Older than 83% of UK towns: half of Lydiate is over 49.7
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 9.1%, against 12% across England’s towns. More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 8.3% of residents, 1.3 times the share across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Lydiate, 49.7. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 90% of UK towns, at 6.7%
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%.
Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%; Lydiate has 4.6%. As a reference point, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Above 69% of UK towns: 2.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home
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.
Compared with other places, one-person households are common here: 30%, more than in 57% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns. Households here average 2.3 people each.
A smaller share of households in detached houses than 81% of UK towns: 17%
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 England’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 24%; Lydiate has 16%. 8.4% of households live in a flat, less than in 64% of UK towns; 17% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
In Lydiate, 2.6% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 96% 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
Across England’s towns, 21% of those born abroad arrived in 2017 or later; here, 5.4%. The census found that 99% of residents have English as their main language in Lydiate. Typically, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
72% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 99% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 97% of Lydiate · Merseyside’s towns 87% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White British are Mixed or multiple (1.3%), Other White (1.2%) and Chinese (0.3%). 97% of residents describe themselves as White British, a higher share than in 94% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%.
More unpaid carers than 96% of UK towns: 12% of residents
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
With adults who have never married at 31%, Lydiate is behind 62% of UK towns on that count. The census found that 50% of adults are married or in a civil partnership here. Measured more widely, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 32%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Lydiate, 32% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 17% have no qualification at all (18%).
Among 473 UK towns of 5,000 to 9,000 people, the 92nd oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Red Lodge is the youngest (30.9); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Lydiate in age: Crewkerne (49.6), Whitburn (49.7), Hindhead (49.7) and Pershore (49.8).
Lydiate is older 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
- “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 Lydiate’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. Lydiate’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 6,748 people in 2021, against 6,516 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 Lydiate’s residents
What is the population of Lydiate?
The 2021 Census counted 6,516 people in Lydiate’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 6,700 people in mid-2024, 3% fewer than in 2011.
What is the average age in Lydiate?
The median age was 49.7 at the 2021 Census, older than 83% of UK towns. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lydiate?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 87% across Merseyside’s towns. 2.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lydiate?
22% said they had no religion and 72% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Lydiate good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lydiate’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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