How old are your neighbours?

WHEN you look at your neighbours, are you convinced they’re getting younger? Or are you heading out to work, while everyone around you seems to be enjoying a relaxing retirement?

New figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal the median age in every ward in England and Wales - and show which areas are full of twenty-somethings and which have a more mature profile.

The median age is the midpoint of the ages of all the people who live in the area - so if you lined everyone up by age, that’s how old the person in the middle would be.

Hinckley Clarendon had the youngest median age in Hinckley and Bosworth at 38.4 years old, followed by Hinckley Trinity at 40 years old.

Out of 16 wards in Hinckley and Bosworth, one had a median age in the thirties, 13 in the forties, and two in the fifties.

On average, the oldest people in Hinckley and Bosworth live in Twycross and Witherley with Sheepy, which has a median age of 51.5 years old.

Across England and Wales, the ward with the youngest average age was Bathwick in Bath and North East Somerset, where the median age is just 20.7 years old.

The presence of a university might be the best indicator that the local average age will be younger - there are three wards with University in the name in the 30 youngest wards.

The ward with the oldest average age was South Downham in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk, where the average resident is 69.4 years old.