Photo: Julian P Guffogg · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 55.3: Rolvenden Layne is older than 97% of UK towns
Households with dependent children: 23%, below 86% of UK towns. 22% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 98% of UK towns. The 2021 Census counted 378 residents in 162 households. The census found that 6.1% of households have no car or van in Rolvenden Layne.
A larger share of residents aged 65 and over than 96% of UK towns: 34%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. 8% of residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 93% of UK towns. Against that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
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.
Full-time students make up 2.9% in Rolvenden Layne, less than in 99% 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 40% of Rolvenden Layne’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 13%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The village has more residents who moved in within the year than 68% of UK towns, at 9.6%. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
Shared households of unrelated adults make up 4.9% in Rolvenden Layne, more than in 96% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Kent’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
At 2.3 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Census figures put one-person households at 30% in Rolvenden Layne. Typically, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
Rolvenden Layne ranks below 99% of UK towns on households in flats: 1.2%
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
46% of households live in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for households in flats is 23% across England’s towns. On the census count, 20% of households live in a terraced house.
Rolvenden Layne: 99% of residents have English as their main language, above 98% 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
Against a figure of 18% across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK in Rolvenden Layne comes in at 5.5%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (4%), then in Africa (1.3%). The wider picture: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
Rolvenden Layne sits above 80% of UK towns for residents who describe themselves as Christian (55%)
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: 94% of Rolvenden Layne · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 37%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%. Locally, 94% of residents describe themselves as White British.
More married adults and civil partners than 93% of UK towns: 57%
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
One in ten residents give unpaid care; across England’s towns the figure is 8.7%. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 11. For married adults and civil partners, the comparison across England’s towns is 44%.
31% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
In Rolvenden Layne, 31% of adults hold a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns, while 15% have no qualification at all (18%).
Around Rolvenden Layne, 2 of 7 towns have a higher median age
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Kent’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Kent (or England), summed the same way as Rolvenden Layne’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 Rolvenden Layne’s residents
What is the population of Rolvenden Layne?
The 2021 Census counted 378 people in Rolvenden Layne’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Rolvenden Layne?
The median age was 55.3 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Rolvenden Layne?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 5.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Rolvenden Layne?
37% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.1% didn’t answer.
Is Rolvenden Layne good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Rolvenden Layne’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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