Photo: The original uploader was Asterion at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 2.5Wroot is older than 96% of UK towns: a median age of 54.4
Shared households of unrelated adults: 0.9%, below 99% of UK towns. On households in terraced houses, Wroot sits lower than 97% of UK towns: 6.2%. At the 2021 Census Wroot was home to 471 people in 214 households. Locally, 19% of households have dependent children.
Residents aged 65 and over: 30%, a higher share than 91% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here 8.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across England’s towns is 12%. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over 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.
A smaller share of full-time students than 98% of UK towns: 3.1%
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%.
3.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier (England’s towns: 11%). Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Fewer one-person households than 97% of UK towns: 21%
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.
A household here has 2.2 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. On average, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
Wroot: 70% of households live in a detached house, above 99% 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
Households in flats make up 1.4%, against 23% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house. For Wroot, the census puts households without a car or van at 7.1%.
1.3% of residents were born outside the UK, below 99% 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 90% across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English in Wroot comes in at 100%. Set beside that, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (0.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.4%).
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 98% in Wroot, more than in 99% 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: 98% of Wroot · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 32%, against 37% across England’s towns. The share of residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns is 73%. The census found that 63% of residents describe themselves as Christian in Wroot.
65% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 99% 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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 13. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 20%, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care; in Wroot, 7.5%.
Degree-level qualifications reach 31% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 34% of adults have a degree-level qualification; in Wroot, 31%, and 19% have none, against 18%.
Wroot is younger than 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wroot | 471 | — | 54.4 | 30% | 19% |
| Hatfield Woodhouse | 2,208 | 2.6 mi | 35.4 | 4.6% | 31% |
| Westwoodside | 2,033 | 3.2 mi | 51.4 | 28% | 25% |
| Epworth | 4,361 | 3.9 mi | 49.1 | 25% | 26% |
| Finningley | 5,919 | 4.1 mi | 37.2 | 13% | 39% |
| Auckley | 1,336 | 4.1 mi | 56.1 | 32% | 20% |
| Haxey | 2,047 | 4.2 mi | 54.9 | 31% | 20% |
| Branton | 1,823 | 4.7 mi | 49.8 | 27% | 22% |
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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 Wroot’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 Wroot’s residents
What is the population of Wroot?
The 2021 Census counted 471 people in Wroot’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wroot?
The median age was 54.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wroot?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 1.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wroot?
32% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Wroot good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wroot’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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