Photo: Bob Harvey · CC BY-SA 2.0Ropsley ranks below 99% of UK towns on households in flats: 0.7%
With a median age of 50.7, Ropsley is older than 88% of UK towns. Households in detached houses: 48% of the total. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 635, in 282 households. The share of adults who have never married trails 90% of UK towns: 26%.
A lower share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 90% of UK towns, at 8.2%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 55–59: 9.8% of residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. For Ropsley, the census puts residents aged 65 and over at 27%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
3.6% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 94% 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%.
34% of Ropsley’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 21% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Locally, 5.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. For comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
In Ropsley, 24% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 78% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Lincolnshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults trails 63% of UK towns: 2.1%. More one-person households than in 72% of UK towns: 33%. The wider picture: 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. Households average 2.3 people.
In Ropsley, 11% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 76% 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
Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%; Ropsley has 19%. Every 9th household or so has no car or van.
97% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 56% 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
6.8% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. Across the comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.8%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2.2%).
60% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 94% 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: 94% of Ropsley · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White British come Other White (3.8%), African (0.8%) and Mixed or multiple (0.8%). As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. 34% of residents said they have no religion, fewer than in 86% of UK towns. Set against 73% across England’s towns, 94% of residents describe themselves as White British in Ropsley.
Above 84% of UK towns: 54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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
17 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns. On unpaid carers, Ropsley sits higher than 62% of UK towns: 9.8%.
33% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 33% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 18% hold no qualification (18%).
Ropsley is younger than 3 of its 7 nearest neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ropsley | 635 | — | 50.7 | 27% | 24% |
| Grantham | 44,906 | 4.8 mi | 41.6 | 19% | 29% |
| Corby Glen | 1,006 | 5.9 mi | 53.2 | 33% | 25% |
| Great Gonerby | 1,880 | 6.4 mi | 51.2 | 29% | 23% |
| Barrowby | 2,041 | 6.6 mi | 51.1 | 30% | 23% |
| Greylees | 1,989 | 6.7 mi | 34.6 | 7% | 44% |
| Colsterworth | 1,296 | 7.4 mi | 49.9 | 26% | 22% |
| Billingborough | 1,390 | 7.8 mi | 50.6 | 25% | 20% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Lincolnshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Lincolnshire (or England), summed the same way as Ropsley’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 Ropsley’s residents
What is the population of Ropsley?
The 2021 Census counted 635 people in Ropsley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ropsley?
The median age was 50.7 at the 2021 Census. 8.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ropsley?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 6.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ropsley?
34% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Ropsley good for families?
24% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ropsley’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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