Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0Ringstead ranks below 91% of UK towns on one-person households: 24%
With a median age of 48.4, Ringstead is older than just over three quarters of UK towns. Here, nearly one in ten households have no car or van. The village had 1,369 residents in 586 households at the 2021 Census. 4% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 25% in Ringstead, more than in 73% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 12% across England’s towns, 9.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Ringstead. 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.
Full-time students make up 3.9% in Ringstead, less 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%.
Managerial and professional jobs account for 34% of Ringstead’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 26%, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%. In Ringstead, nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Only 26% of households in Ringstead have dependent children
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.
Here 2.7% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, where the figure across England’s towns is 4.3%. For households with dependent children, the comparison across England’s towns is 29%.
In Ringstead, 39% of households live in a detached house, more than in 74% 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
Set against 24% across England’s towns, 17% of households live in a terraced house in Ringstead. Against that, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
5% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 65% 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
By its share of residents whose main language is English (98%), Ringstead is above 63% of UK towns. The share of residents born outside the UK across England’s towns is 18%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.3%), then in Africa (1.4%).
44% of residents said they have no religion, more than in 72% 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 Ringstead · Northamptonshire’s towns 77% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (3.5%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Indian (0.4%). Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 94%, more than in 71% of UK towns. Residents with no religion: 37% across England’s towns, for comparison. Set against 46% across England’s towns, 50% of residents describe themselves as Christian in Ringstead.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 68% of UK towns, at 51%
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
Adults who have never married make up 30%, against 39% across England’s towns. As a reference point, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. For Ringstead, the census puts unpaid carers at 10%.
28% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
20% of Ringstead’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 28% have one at degree level (34%).
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 2 are older than Ringstead
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ringstead | 1,369 | — | 48.4 | 25% | 26% |
| Raunds | 10,231 | 1.7 mi | 42.2 | 21% | 28% |
| Woodford | 1,472 | 1.7 mi | 51.7 | 28% | 20% |
| Thrapston | 7,239 | 2.1 mi | 40.8 | 16% | 31% |
| Stanwick | 1,891 | 2.4 mi | 51.3 | 27% | 27% |
| Irthlingborough | 9,308 | 4 mi | 40.3 | 17% | 30% |
| Higham Ferrers | 8,825 | 4.3 mi | 42.4 | 19% | 32% |
| Finedon | 4,554 | 4.8 mi | 46.8 | 24% | 23% |
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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 Ringstead’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 Ringstead’s residents
What is the population of Ringstead?
The 2021 Census counted 1,369 people in Ringstead’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ringstead?
The median age was 48.4 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ringstead?
94% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 77% across Northamptonshire’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ringstead?
44% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Ringstead good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ringstead’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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