Editing Lowestoft (section)

==Demography==
Lowestoft is Suffolk's second largest town, after [[Ipswich]], with an estimated population of 58,560 in 2010.<ref name=wav2010>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110928223545/http://www.waveney.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=157&categoryID=100002&pageNumber=1 Economic statistics and data – an overview of Waveney], Waveney District Council. Retrieved 14 August 2013.</ref><ref name="scccensuslow">[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/Environment/FactsAndFigures/2001Census/ Profiles of Ipswich, Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923013937/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/Environment/FactsAndFigures/2001Census/ |date=23 September 2011}}, Suffolk County Council. Retrieved 10 April 2011.</ref> The wider urban area brought the estimated population of the built-up area to 73,755 in 2018 from 68,850 at the 2001 census.<ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastofengland/suffolk/E34004315__lowestoft/ City Population site. Retrieved 26 October 2020.]</ref> The town's wider urban area includes the suburbs and villages of [[Carlton Colville]], [[Gunton, Suffolk|Gunton]], [[Pakefield]], [[Oulton, Suffolk|Oulton]], [[Oulton Broad]] and [[Kirkley]]. Other outlying villages in the urban area include [[Blundeston]], [[Corton, Suffolk|Corton]], [[Gisleham]], [[Kessingland]] and [[Somerleyton]].

About 10 per cent of the area population at the 2001 census was aged 75 or over and 20 per cent under 16.<ref name="scccensuslow"/> In general the population of several wards is slightly skewed towards the elderly. The population is mainly classed as "white", with minority ethnicities making up 1.4 per cent, compared with 8.7 per cent nationally.<ref name="guntonprofile">[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202449/58GuntonElectoralDivisionprofile1.pdf Gunton electoral division profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308154352/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202449/58GuntonElectoralDivisionprofile1.pdf |date=8 March 2012}}, Suffolk County Council, September 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref><ref name="pakefieldprofile">[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202385/63PakefieldElectoralDivisionprofile.pdf Pakefield electoral division profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308154524/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202385/63PakefieldElectoralDivisionprofile.pdf |date=8 March 2012 }}, Suffolk County Council, September 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref><ref name="oultonprofile">[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202384/62OultonElectoralDivisionprofile.pdf Oulton electoral division profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919165253/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202384/62OultonElectoralDivisionprofile.pdf |date=19 September 2011}}, Suffolk County Council, September 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref><ref name="lowsouthprofile">[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202451/61LowestoftSouthElectoralDivisionprofile.pdf Lowestoft south electoral division profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308154557/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F3AE2F7D-6C7D-427A-8078-EC8757BAB0C0/202451/61LowestoftSouthElectoralDivisionprofile.pdf |date=8 March 2012}}, Suffolk County Council, September 2009. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref><ref name=wavprofile>[http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7DDDC88A-3DEF-44F5-8E7A-B93F7B724C3F/0/WaveneyDistrictprofile.pdf Waveney district profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308154618/http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/7DDDC88A-3DEF-44F5-8E7A-B93F7B724C3F/0/WaveneyDistrictprofile.pdf |date=8 March 2012}}, Suffolk County Council, April 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2011.</ref><ref name="ONS who">D. Gardener and H. Connelly (2005) [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/other_ethnicgroups.pdf Who are the "other" ethnic groups?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528025158/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/other_ethnicgroups.pdf |date=28 May 2008}}, [[Office for National Statistics]]. Retrieved 22 June 2008.</ref>

At the 2001 census there were 27,777 households, giving an average household size of 2.40.<ref name="scccensuslow"/> In total 8,430 (30 per cent) were classified as one-person households, while 26 per cent included children aged 15 or under.<ref name="scccensuslow"/> The proportion of households without a private car was 29 per cent, whilst 22 per cent had two or more. In housing tenure, 72 per cent of homes were owner-occupied.<ref name="scccensuslow"/>