What are the average ages of your neighbours?
Figures from the Office for National Statistics
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.
Loughborough Ashby had the youngest median age in Charnwood at 21.6 years old, followed by Loughborough Southfields at 23.8 years old.
Out of 28 wards in Charnwood, four have a median age in the twenties, five in the thirties, 18 in the forties, and one in the fifties.
On average, the oldest people in Charnwood live in Queniborough, which has a
median age of 50.5 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.
Here are the local statistics (Charnwood ward followed by median age): Loughborough Ashby, 21.6; Loughborough Southfields, 23.8; Loughborough Storer, 24.4; Loughborough Nanpantan, 25.3; Loughborough Lemyngton, 31.5; Loughborough Hastings, 34.4; Loughborough Shelthorpe, 35; Sileby, 37.9; Birstall Wanlip, 38.9; Syston East, 41.1; Loughborough Dishley and Hathern, 42; Mountsorrel, 42.2; Syston West, 42.2; Thurmaston, 42.3; Shepshed West, 42.6; Barrow and Sileby West, 42.9; Anstey, 43.7; East Goscote, 44.6; Shepshed East, 44.7; Birstall Watermead, 45.1; Forest Bradgate, 45.3; Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle, 45.5; Loughborough Garendon, 45.7; Rothley and Thurcaston, 46.1; The Wolds, 46.6; Wreake Villages, 47.3; Loughborough Outwoods, 47.8; Queniborough, 50.5.