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Old Swan West ward, Liverpool

Old Swan West is one of 64 electoral wards of Liverpool City Council (North West). At the 2021 Census it had 7,557 residents in 3,453 households — 4,787 people per km², the 25th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Liverpool Wavertree and Liverpool West Derby constituencies.

Residents, 20217,557council ward average 7,716
Households3,4532.19 residents per household
Density4,787/ km²about 1.58 km² · Liverpool 4,346
Aged 65+14.3%Liverpool: 15.3% · under 16: 18.4%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–46.2% · 465
5–95.9% · 444
10–156.3% · 479
16–194.6% · 346
20–246.6% · 501
25–3415.9% · 1,201
35–4920.3% · 1,536
50–6420.0% · 1,508
65–748.1% · 614
75–844.7% · 352
85+1.5% · 112

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van47.2% · 1,628
1 car or van39.5% · 1,364
2 cars or vans11.2% · 387
3 or more2.1% · 73
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Liverpool overall: 46.8% owned, 26.4% social rented, 26.1% private rented.

Owned outright22.3% · 771
With mortgage20.7% · 714
Shared ownership0.4% · 15
Social rented22.9% · 790
Private rented33.4% · 1,155
Lives rent free0.3% · 9

Type of home

Detached house2.7% · 94
Semi-detached house18.5% · 638
Terraced house61.5% · 2,125
Purpose-built flat9.6% · 332
Converted house4.8% · 165
Other conversion1.3% · 45
Above shop / office1.6% · 55
Caravan, mobile0.0% · 1
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0This ward was drawn after the 2021 Census: figures are built up from the 5 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.