Photo: Jim Barton · CC BY-SA 2.0Lowick is older than 98% of UK towns: a median age of 57.7
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.2% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. The 2021 Census put Lowick’s population at 364, in 168 households. Census figures put households with dependent children at 15% locally. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 99%, more than in 99% of UK towns.
Lowick ranks above 97% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 35%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 70–74 than any other five-year age: 13% of residents, 2.7 times the share across England’s towns. Across Lowick, 6.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Elsewhere, 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 an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 1.3%
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%.
By class, 34% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 26% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Residents who moved in within the year account for 8.8%. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Lowick sits below 95% of UK towns for one-person households (22%)
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Northumberland’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Across England’s towns, households average 2.4 people; in Lowick, 2.1. To put it in context, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
2.3% of households live in a flat or apartment, below 96% 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
Set against 21% across England’s towns, 38% of households live in a detached house in Lowick. Across England’s towns, households in flats come to 23%. Households without a car or van: 8.4% of the total. 19% of households live in a terraced house, a lower share than in 54% of UK towns.
0.8% of residents were born outside the UK, below 99% 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
90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns, against 100% in Lowick. Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (0.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.3%).
Lowick sits above 94% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (60%)
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: 99% of Lowick · Northumberland’s towns 96% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 36% of residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. For comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Below 98% of UK towns: 23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership
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
14 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. At 58%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 95% of UK towns. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. The share of unpaid carers tops 84% of UK towns: 11%.
34% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Lowick, 34%, and 17% have none, against 18%.
1 of the 3 nearest towns are older than Lowick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowick | 364 | — | 57.7 | 35% | 15% |
| Belford | 1,314 | 6.8 mi | 55 | 31% | 18% |
| Wooler | 1,930 | 7.3 mi | 59.9 | 41% | 13% |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 13,181 | 8 mi | 49 | 27% | 23% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Northumberland’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Northumberland (or England), summed the same way as Lowick’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 Lowick’s residents
What is the population of Lowick?
The 2021 Census counted 364 people in Lowick’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lowick?
The median age was 57.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lowick?
99% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 96% across Northumberland’s towns. 0.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lowick?
36% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.9% didn’t answer.
Is Lowick good for families?
15% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lowick’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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