Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.0Shuttlewood ranks above 99% of UK towns on unpaid carers: 15%
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 96% here and 73% across England’s towns. Shuttlewood counted 955 residents and 431 households at the 2021 Census. Households with dependent children: a quarter of the total. More residents aged 65 and over than in 56% of UK towns: 23%.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 9.3% in Shuttlewood, less than in 66% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Half of Shuttlewood’s residents are over 44.7, older than in just over half of UK towns. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
4.2% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 79% of UK towns
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%.
Just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier; across England’s towns the figure is 11%. Across England’s towns, full-time students come to 7.9%.
Households here average 2.2 people, below 77% 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.
29% of households are one person living alone. Few places have so few shared households of unrelated adults: 2.3% here, fewer than in 50% of UK towns.
Households in terraced houses make up 23% in Shuttlewood, more than in 61% of UK towns
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
Detached houses are home to 28% of households, against 21% across England’s towns. Just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment, a higher share than in 51% of UK towns. Households in terraced houses: 24% across England’s towns, for comparison. Here, 15% of households have no car or van.
Only 2.4% of residents were born outside the UK in Shuttlewood
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
Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%; Shuttlewood has 99%. As a reference point, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (1.3%) and in Africa (0.5%).
A higher share of residents with no religion than 70% of UK towns, at 44%
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 Shuttlewood · Derbyshire’s towns 86% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian make up 48%, against 46% across England’s towns. The share of residents with no religion across England’s towns is 37%. After White British, the most common groups are Mixed or multiple (1.7%), Other White (1.3%) and Arab (0.3%).
Shuttlewood sits above 71% of UK towns for adults who have never married (36%)
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
The share of married adults and civil partners trails just over four fifths of UK towns: 43%. Adults who have never married: 39% across England’s towns, for comparison. 48 residents give 50 hours or more of unpaid care each week.
20% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 20% of its adults qualified to degree level, Shuttlewood compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 23% hold no qualification (18%).
3 in 7 nearby towns have a higher median age than Shuttlewood
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shuttlewood | 955 | — | 44.7 | 23% | 25% |
| Bolsover | 11,228 | 1.4 mi | 45.3 | 22% | 25% |
| Duckmanton | 1,775 | 1.6 mi | 39.7 | 19% | 32% |
| Clowne | 7,759 | 2.3 mi | 45.6 | 23% | 26% |
| Barlborough | 2,859 | 2.4 mi | 47.6 | 21% | 27% |
| Staveley | 15,151 | 2.6 mi | 41.7 | 19% | 29% |
| Renishaw | 2,425 | 3.4 mi | 38.6 | 14% | 32% |
| Creswell | 5,792 | 3.4 mi | 38.9 | 19% | 29% |
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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 Shuttlewood’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 Shuttlewood’s residents
What is the population of Shuttlewood?
The 2021 Census counted 955 people in Shuttlewood’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Shuttlewood?
The median age was 44.7 at the 2021 Census. 9.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Shuttlewood?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 86% across Derbyshire’s towns. 2.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Shuttlewood?
44% said they had no religion and 48% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 6.8% didn’t answer.
Is Shuttlewood good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Shuttlewood’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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