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Marple South & High Lane ward, Stockport

Marple South & High Lane is one of 21 electoral wards of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (North West). At the 2021 Census it had 13,241 residents in 5,842 households — 1,274 people per km², the 16th largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Hazel Grove constituency.

Residents, 202113,241council ward average 14,037
Households5,8422.27 residents per household
Density1,274/ km²about 10.39 km² · Stockport 2,338
Aged 65+29.2%Stockport: 20.1% · under 16: 16.5%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–44.5% · 591
5–95.4% · 714
10–156.7% · 882
16–193.4% · 452
20–243.5% · 466
25–348.6% · 1,133
35–4917.5% · 2,312
50–6421.4% · 2,830
65–7414.7% · 1,949
75–8410.5% · 1,396
85+3.9% · 517

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van15.5% · 904
1 car or van43.1% · 2,520
2 cars or vans31.5% · 1,840
3 or more9.9% · 579
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Stockport overall: 71.1% owned, 13.3% social rented, 14.4% private rented.

Owned outright47.1% · 2,750
With mortgage33.4% · 1,948
Shared ownership0.9% · 50
Social rented10.1% · 591
Private rented8.4% · 493
Lives rent free0.1% · 4

Type of home

Detached house31.7% · 1,853
Semi-detached house39.3% · 2,298
Terraced house21.0% · 1,230
Purpose-built flat5.5% · 322
Converted house1.2% · 68
Other conversion0.3% · 18
Above shop / office0.9% · 52
Caravan, mobile0.1% · 5
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 9 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.