Photo: Stuart Logan · CC BY-SA 2.016% of households have dependent children, below 99% of UK towns
38% of households are one person living alone; across England’s towns the figure is 30%. Married adults and civil partners: 35% of the total. With a median age of 38.8, Rose-in-the-bush is younger than 86% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Rose-in-the-bush was home to 228 people in 76 households.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 18% in Rose-in-the-bush, more than in 98% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
20–24 is the most common age band: 16% of residents, 2.5 times the share across England’s towns. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 64% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
40% women, 60% men
About 67 women for every 100 men. Across England, 51% of residents are women. A large institution, such as a prison, barracks, boarding school, university or care home, can tilt a town’s split: the census counts the people living there as residents.
Rose-in-the-bush sits below 99% of UK towns for full-time students (2.4%)
What adults did at the 2021 Census (the ONS’s NS-SEC classes), and where residents lived a year earlier.
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
Address a year before the Census
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Rose-in-the-bush has 35% and 15%. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are common here: 17%, more than in 97% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 85% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cornwall’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
On shared households of unrelated adults, 4% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
Fewer households in terraced houses than 99% of UK towns: 1.3%
Accommodation type and cars or vans per household, Census 2021. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Households in detached houses make up 49%, against 21% across England’s towns. The usual figure: nearly a quarter of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns. Census figures put households without a car or van at 6.4% in Rose-in-the-bush. Lower than in 95% of UK towns: 2.6% of households live in a flat or apartment.
15% of residents were born outside the UK, more than in 87% of UK towns
Country of birth, year of arrival and main language, Census 2021.
Born outside the UK, by region · share of all residents; the bar runs to 25%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (6.6%) and in Africa (4%). 99% of residents have English as their main language, a higher share than in 76% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%.
In Rose-in-the-bush, 85% of residents describe themselves as White British, fewer than in 79% of UK towns
How residents described themselves at the 2021 Census. Lines join the lowest and highest of the three figures.
Ethnic groups other than White British · all residents
White British, not charted: 85% of Rose-in-the-bush · Cornwall’s towns 93% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Caribbean (5.7%), African (3.5%) and Other White (2.6%). Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British. On residents who describe themselves as Christian, Rose-in-the-bush sits lower than 63% of UK towns: 48%. Set against 37% across England’s towns, just over two in five residents said they have no religion in the village.
In Rose-in-the-bush, 42% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, more than in 93% of UK towns
Legal partnership status (residents 16 and over) and unpaid care (residents 5 and over), Census 2021.
Partnership status · residents 16 and over
Unpaid care given · share of residents 5 and over
Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 4 people. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.5%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: held by 32% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 32% of Rose-in-the-bush’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 14% have no qualification (18%).
Rose-in-the-bush is younger than every town around it
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rose-in-the-bush | 228 | — | 38.8 | 24% | 16% |
| Helston | 11,366 | 1.8 mi | 41.8 | 21% | 30% |
| Porthleven | 3,118 | 2.9 mi | 51.3 | 29% | 22% |
| Mullion | 2,148 | 3.8 mi | 52.6 | 34% | 25% |
| Mawnan Smith | 1,001 | 6.6 mi | 57.7 | 39% | 23% |
| Lizard | 1,046 | 8 mi | 54.3 | 33% | 19% |
| Stithians | 1,613 | 8 mi | 45.5 | 23% | 29% |
| Troon | 1,402 | 8 mi | 46.5 | 24% | 27% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Cornwall’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cornwall (or England), summed the same way as Rose-in-the-bush’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- Small counts are blurred. The ONS adds small random changes to Census counts to protect privacy, so the same total differs a little between tables, and the shares of a small town can move by a point or two.
Questions about Rose-in-the-bush’s residents
What is the population of Rose-in-the-bush?
The 2021 Census counted 228 people in Rose-in-the-bush’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Rose-in-the-bush?
The median age was 38.8 at the 2021 Census. 18% of residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Rose-in-the-bush?
85% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 93% across Cornwall’s towns. 15% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Rose-in-the-bush?
42% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.9% didn’t answer.
Is Rose-in-the-bush good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Rose-in-the-bush’s schools page.
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area (TS002, TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS008, TS015, TS017, TS019, TS021, TS029, TS030, TS039, TS044, TS045, TS062, TS067). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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