Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 98% of UK towns: half of Ridgeway is over 57.5
Set against 37% across England’s towns, nearly a third of residents said they have no religion in Ridgeway. For Ridgeway, the census puts households with dependent children at 12%. At 36%, the share of one-person households is higher than in 92% of UK towns. The village is home to 260 residents in 127 households, by the 2021 Census.
Ridgeway ranks above 92% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 30%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 is 9.6%, against 12% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 18% of residents are 65 or over.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 84 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of residents who moved in within the year than 91% of UK towns, at 6.6%
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%.
Against a figure of 7.9% across England’s towns, the share of full-time students in Ridgeway comes in at 10%. Across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Ridgeway households average 2.1 people, smaller than in 96% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Derbyshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Little separates the share of shared households of unrelated adults here, 3.9%, from the figure across England’s towns.
More households in detached houses than 94% of UK towns: 56%
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
In Ridgeway, 10% of households live in a flat or apartment, beside 23% across England’s towns. Typically, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. The share of households in terraced houses stands at 16%. Compared with other places, households without a car or van are scarce here: 11%, fewer than in three quarters of UK towns.
Fewer residents born outside the UK than 97% of UK towns: 2.3%
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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.9%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.4%). Against that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. More residents whose main language is English than in 81% of UK towns: 99%.
Ridgeway: 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 85% 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: 96% of Ridgeway · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 56% here and 46% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Other than White British, most residents describe themselves as Other White (1.5%), Mixed or multiple (0.8%) and Pakistani (0.4%).
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 83% of UK towns, at 54%
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 carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 10. Across the comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Lower than in 82% of UK towns: 28% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.4%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
31% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Ridgeway counts 31% of its adults, against 34% across England’s towns; at the other end, 19% have no qualification (18%). A levels are the highest qualification of 16%, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Ridgeway is older 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgeway | 260 | — | 57.5 | 30% | 12% |
| Eckington | 7,435 | 2 mi | 46.5 | 23% | 24% |
| Killamarsh | 9,082 | 3.3 mi | 45.6 | 22% | 27% |
| Renishaw | 2,425 | 3.6 mi | 38.6 | 14% | 32% |
| Dronfield | 21,161 | 3.7 mi | 49.9 | 29% | 25% |
| Waverley and Catcliffe | 5,342 | 4.1 mi | 32.6 | 7.1% | 41% |
| Sheffield | 500,520 | 4.1 mi | 36.2 | 16% | 27% |
| Swallownest and Aston | 14,912 | 4.2 mi | 43.3 | 21% | 29% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “Derbyshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Derbyshire (or England), summed the same way as Ridgeway’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 Ridgeway’s residents
What is the population of Ridgeway?
The 2021 Census counted 260 people in Ridgeway’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ridgeway?
The median age was 57.5 at the 2021 Census. 9.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ridgeway?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 2.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ridgeway?
32% said they had no religion and 56% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 11% didn’t answer.
Is Ridgeway good for families?
12% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ridgeway’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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