Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 51.5: Rosliston is older than 91% of UK towns
5.4% of households have no car or van, against 24% across England’s towns. There were 297 households in Rosliston at the 2021 Census, home to 684 residents. Census figures put households in detached houses at 72% locally. Higher than in 95% of UK towns: 61% of residents describe themselves as Christian.
Fewer residents aged 15 to 24 than 97% of UK towns: 7.4%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
26% of residents are 65 or over (England’s towns: 18%). Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Rosliston sits below 97% of UK towns for full-time students (3.3%)
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%.
By class, just over two in five adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 20% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Residents who moved in within the year: 6% of the total. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%.
25% of households are one person living alone, fewer than in 87% 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.
Households with dependent children: 24% here and 29% across England’s towns. Across Rosliston, 1.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. For one-person households, the comparison across England’s towns is 30%.
Fewer households in terraced houses than 96% of UK towns: 6.3%
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 flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, households in terraced houses come to 24%.
Fewer residents born abroad 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (0.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.7%). 100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% of UK towns. For comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
97% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 96% 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: 97% of Rosliston · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Mixed or multiple (1.5%), Other White (0.7%) and Pakistani (0.3%). Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 73% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 32%, fewer than in 90% of UK towns.
Only 22% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Rosliston
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
In Rosliston, 60% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, beside 44% across England’s towns. On the census count, 12% of residents give unpaid care. Elsewhere, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 38% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Rosliston, 13%, while 38% hold one at degree level (34%).
The towns around Rosliston are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosliston | 684 | — | 51.5 | 26% | 24% |
| Linton | 2,145 | 1.9 mi | 47.4 | 24% | 25% |
| Overseal and Castle Gresley | 5,055 | 2.7 mi | 41.9 | 19% | 29% |
| Swadlincote | 34,569 | 3.7 mi | 41.7 | 18% | 28% |
| Barton-under-Needwood | 4,713 | 3.8 mi | 49.4 | 26% | 29% |
| Burton upon Trent | 76,264 | 4.1 mi | 37.5 | 15% | 31% |
| Moira | 3,198 | 4.7 mi | 45.7 | 20% | 27% |
| Woodville | 7,255 | 4.7 mi | 36.6 | 12% | 33% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “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 Rosliston’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 Rosliston’s residents
What is the population of Rosliston?
The 2021 Census counted 684 people in Rosliston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Rosliston?
The median age was 51.5 at the 2021 Census. 7.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Rosliston?
97% 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 Rosliston?
32% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.6% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is Rosliston good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Rosliston’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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