Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Lyddington is older than 95% of UK towns: a median age of 53.7
69% of households live in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. Here, 7.7% of households live in a terraced house. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 383 residents and 169 households in Lyddington.
33% of residents are 65 or over, a share 95% of UK towns don’t reach
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 50–54: 11% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. Here, 9.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
12% of residents moved in within a year, more than in 89% 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%.
The share of full-time students is 5.1%, against 7.9% across England’s towns. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across England’s towns is 11%.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
One-person households: 20%, a lower share than 98% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Rutland’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
By its share of households with dependent children (25%), Lyddington is below 73% of UK towns. Set beside that, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 1.8%.
Fewer households without a car or van than 99% of UK towns: 3%
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 in flats is 23%; Lyddington has 0.6%. Households without a car or van: 24% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Lyddington: 98% of residents have English as their main language, above 67% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (1.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.8%). Typically, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. In Lyddington, 5.7% of residents were born outside the UK, beside 18% across England’s towns.
Lyddington: 63% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 97% 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: 93% of Lyddington · Rutland’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as White British is 93% in Lyddington and 73% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Locally, 31% of residents said they have no religion.
Lyddington ranks above 99% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 65%
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
Here 4.5% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%. The usual figure: 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 4.
57% of adults have 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 Lyddington, 57%, and 6.6% have none, against 18%.
Every nearby town is younger than Lyddington
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.
- “Rutland’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Rutland (or England), summed the same way as Lyddington’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 Lyddington’s residents
What is the population of Lyddington?
The 2021 Census counted 383 people in Lyddington’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Lyddington?
The median age was 53.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Lyddington?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Rutland’s towns. 5.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Lyddington?
31% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1% were Muslim and 4.2% didn’t answer.
Is Lyddington good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Lyddington’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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