NEW data from the 2021 census shows that a growing number of adults in Carlisle have never been married or in a civil partnership.
The figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that of Carlisle residents aged 16 years and over, 35.3 per cent said they had never been married or in a civil partnership.
This is up from 32.3 per cent in the previous census in 2011.
In 2021, just under one in two (45.4 per cent) said they were married or in a registered civil partnership, compared with 47.5 per cent in 2011.
The percentage of adults in Carlisle that had divorced or dissolved a civil partnership increased from 9.7 per cent to 9.9 per cent.
These figures include same-sex marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships in 2021, neither of which were legally recognised in England and Wales in 2011.
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