Photo: Martin Ridley · Public domainA higher share of households in detached houses than 98% of UK towns, at 64%
One-person households: 22%, below 95% of UK towns. Few places have so few households in flats: 5.5% here, fewer than in just over four fifths of UK towns. Rogerstone had 7,546 residents in 3,018 households at the 2021 Census. The share of married adults and civil partners stands at 57%.
In Rogerstone, 11% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 74% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents. To put it in context, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Wales’s towns. 21% of residents are 65 or over, fewer than in 52% of UK towns. In Abergavenny, the oldest of Gwent’s towns by this measure, it is 27%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Rogerstone, 45. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
6.2% of adults are full-time students, more than in 87% 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%.
Across Wales’s towns, 29% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine or semi-routine work; Rogerstone has 48% and 15%. Against that, 8% of adults are full-time students across Wales’s towns. Residents who moved in within the year: 6.9% of the total.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
More households with dependent children than 82% of UK towns: 31%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Gwent’s towns and Wales’s towns
People per household
Wales’s towns.
At 2.5 people, the average household compares with 2.3 across Wales’s towns. On average, 27% of households have dependent children across Wales’s towns. In Rogerstone, 1.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
Rogerstone sits below 88% of UK towns for households without a car or van (8.7%)
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
The share of households in terraced houses trails four fifths of UK towns: 13%. About one household in 11 lives without a car or van.
Rogerstone ranks above 62% of UK towns on residents whose main language is English: 98%
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 10%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (2.3%) and in Africa (1.5%). As a yardstick, 96% of residents have English as their main language across Wales’s towns. Rogerstone has fewer residents born outside the UK than 53% of UK towns, at 6.1%. Arrivals from 2017 on account for 9.9% of residents born abroad, beside 23% across Wales’s towns.
8.7% of people in Rogerstone speak Welsh
Welsh language skills, residents aged 3 and over, Census 2021.
Welsh language skills · residents aged 3 and over
The 2021 Census found 640 Welsh speakers aged 3 and over, 8.7% of that age group, against 16% across Welsh towns: fewer than in 81% of them. Abertridwr and Senghenydd leads Gwent with 14%.
42% said they have no religion, more than in 54% 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: 91% of Rogerstone · Gwent’s towns 91% · Wales’s towns 90%.
Religion · all residents
In Rogerstone, 49% of residents describe themselves as Christian, beside 43% across Wales’s towns. Fewer residents who describe themselves as White British than in 59% of UK towns: 91%. Against that, 47% of residents said they have no religion across Wales’s towns. 1.7% of residents said their religion is Muslim.
Adults who have never married make up 28% in Rogerstone, less than in 79% 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 184 people. Measured more widely, 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Wales’s towns. 9.9% of residents give unpaid care, more than in 64% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 44% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
At degree level, Rogerstone counts 44% of its adults, against 31% across Wales’s towns; at the other end, 11% have no qualification (20%). A levels top the qualifications of 17%, many of them students on the way to a degree.
538 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people: this is the 265th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 30.9 in Red Lodge to 65.3 in Barton on Sea. Nearest to Rogerstone in age: Staplehurst (44.9), Whitworth (45), Caldicot (45) and Rusthall and Langton Green (45.1).
Older than Rogerstone: 2 of the 7 towns nearby
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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.
- “Gwent’s towns” and “Wales’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Gwent (or Wales), summed the same way as Rogerstone’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 Rogerstone’s residents
What is the population of Rogerstone?
The 2021 Census counted 7,546 people in Rogerstone’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Rogerstone?
The median age was 45 at the 2021 Census, older than 54% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Rogerstone?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 90% across Wales’s towns and 91% across Gwent’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Rogerstone?
42% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.7% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Rogerstone good for families?
31% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 27% across Wales’s towns. Schools are on Rogerstone’s schools page.
How many people speak Welsh in Rogerstone?
640 residents aged 3 and over, 8.7%, said they can speak Welsh at the 2021 Census, against 16% across Welsh towns.
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, TS032). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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