05 Jul 2017

Manchester is among the youngest places in Britain

Manchester is the youngest place in Britain outside London – and getting younger. The average age of people in Manchester in 2016 was 33.1 years old.

This was the joint-fourth youngest average age in Britain, behind the east London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham and level with Hackney.

Manchester has been getting younger this decade. The average age of people in the city in 2010 was 33.4 years old compared to 33.1 years in 2016. Salford was the only other part of Greater Manchester to be getting younger.

This shift towards youth in Manchester is the opposite of what is happening across the UK more widely. The average person in the UK was exactly 40 years old in 2016 compared to 39.3 years old in 2010.