Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Raunds ranks above 89% of UK towns on residents with no religion: 48%
11% of households have no car or van, against 24% across England’s towns. Households in flats account for 6.4%. On one-person households, Raunds sits lower than just over three quarters of UK towns: 27%. The town’s 4,278 households held 10,231 residents at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about Raunds’s people
More with no religion than most
48% of residents answered “no religion” in 2021 and 45% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Ethnicity & religion ↓
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Raunds at 8,600 in 2011 and 10,400 in 2024, up 20%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 86% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
From 2011 to 2024, Raunds outgrew 86% of UK towns: +20%
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Raunds’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 8,600 people in 2011; 10,400 in 2024.
The biggest one-year rise was mid-2020 to mid-2021, 310 people. The 65 and over age group changed most (+45%) and the 16 to 29 least (+5%).
Half of Raunds is under 42.2, younger than 68% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, against 21% in Raunds. On the census count, nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Raunds, 42.2. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Only 3.9% of adults are full-time students in Raunds
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%.
Here 10% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, where the figure across England’s towns is 11%. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Larger households than 69% of UK towns: 2.4 people on average
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Northamptonshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Families with dependent children are 28% of households (England’s towns 29%), and 12% are someone 66 or over living alone (Northamptonshire’s towns 12%). Against a figure of 4.3% across England’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Raunds comes in at 2.4%.
A town of detached houses: 37% of households live in one
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 terraced houses make up 18%, against 24% across England’s towns. 6.4% of households live in a flat, less than in 76% of UK towns; 37% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
In Raunds, 97% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 57% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (3.6%) or in Africa (1.5%). Elsewhere, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Since 2017: 13% of those born abroad, against 21% across England’s towns.
Raunds ranks below 80% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 45%
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 Raunds · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns, against 91% in Raunds. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as Christian come to 46%. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (3.9%), Mixed or multiple (1.7%) and African (1.1%).
Raunds: 33% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, above 55% 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 262 people. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. 8.2% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 79% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership; in Raunds, 47%.
Degree-level qualifications: 25% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 25% of adults in Raunds (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 19% (England’s towns: 18%).
Of 455 UK towns its size (7,000 to 14,000 people), the 136th youngest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 27.8 in Stoke Gifford to 61 in Seaton. Nearest to Raunds in age: Flitwick (42), Alfreton (42.2), Desborough (42.3) and Rhondda (42.3).
Around Raunds, 5 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raunds | 10,231 | — | 42.2 | 21% | 28% |
| Stanwick | 1,891 | 1.2 mi | 51.3 | 27% | 27% |
| Ringstead | 1,369 | 1.7 mi | 48.4 | 25% | 26% |
| Higham Ferrers | 8,825 | 3.2 mi | 42.4 | 19% | 32% |
| Woodford | 1,472 | 3.3 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 20% |
| Irthlingborough | 9,308 | 3.4 mi | 40.3 | 17% | 30% |
| Thrapston | 7,239 | 3.6 mi | 40.8 | 16% | 31% |
| Rushden | 31,689 | 4.5 mi | 42.3 | 20% | 29% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Northamptonshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Northamptonshire (or England), summed the same way as Raunds’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Raunds’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 9,875 people in 2021, against 10,231 in the built-up area.
- 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 Raunds’s residents
What is the population of Raunds?
The 2021 Census counted 10,231 people in Raunds’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 10,400 people in mid-2024, 20% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Raunds?
The median age was 42.2 at the 2021 Census, younger than 68% of UK towns. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Raunds?
91% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 6.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Raunds?
48% said they had no religion and 45% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Raunds good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Raunds’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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