Photo: Richard Croft · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 94% of UK towns: half of Cromwell is over 53.1
60% of households live in a detached house; across England’s towns the figure is 21%. Compared with other places, households in terraced houses are scarce here: 3.5%, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put Cromwell’s population at 269, in 109 households. Married adults and civil partners: 62% of the total.
5.6% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 65–69: one in ten residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
1.7% of adults are full-time students, fewer 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%.
Across England’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Cromwell, 41% and 18%. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. The census found that 5.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in the village.
Fewer one-person households than 98% of UK towns: 20%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Nottinghamshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 2.8%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, one-person households come to 30%. Locally, just over a fifth of households have dependent children.
4.4% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 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
100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (3.3%), then in Africa (1.1%). The benchmark for residents whose main language is English across England’s towns: 90%. At 4.8%, the share of residents born outside the UK is lower than in 67% of UK towns.
A higher share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 98% of UK towns, at 65%
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: 96% of Cromwell · Nottinghamshire’s towns 79% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
On religion, 30% answered “no religion” and 65% Christian, against 37% and 46% across England’s towns. Meanwhile, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 91% of UK towns. The groups that follow White British are Other White (2.9%), Chinese (0.4%) and Mixed or multiple (0.4%).
In Cromwell, 22% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 98% 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
Set against 8.7% across England’s towns, just over one in ten residents give unpaid care in Cromwell. Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. 10 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
Degree-level qualifications: 26% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 26% of Cromwell’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification (18%).
Around Cromwell, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cromwell | 269 | — | 53.1 | 30% | 22% |
| Collingham | 2,870 | 2.1 mi | 54.7 | 36% | 20% |
| Sutton on Trent | 1,244 | 2.5 mi | 48.3 | 24% | 26% |
| Coddington | 1,165 | 4.8 mi | 45.3 | 24% | 30% |
| Newark-on-Trent | 29,755 | 5.1 mi | 40 | 18% | 26% |
| Farndon | 2,472 | 6.1 mi | 52.9 | 31% | 21% |
| Witham St Hughs | 3,483 | 6.1 mi | 32.6 | 4.8% | 47% |
| Balderton | 12,876 | 6.5 mi | 44 | 21% | 28% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Nottinghamshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Nottinghamshire (or England), summed the same way as Cromwell’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 Cromwell’s residents
What is the population of Cromwell?
The 2021 Census counted 269 people in Cromwell’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cromwell?
The median age was 53.1 at the 2021 Census. 5.6% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cromwell?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 79% across Nottinghamshire’s towns. 4.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cromwell?
30% said they had no religion and 65% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.4% didn’t answer.
Is Cromwell good for families?
22% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cromwell’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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