Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.0Eakring is older than 93% of UK towns: a median age of 52.4
The share of households in terraced houses is 3.7%, against 24% across England’s towns. Eakring’s 186 households held 440 residents at the 2021 Census. Nearly a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. More households in detached houses than in 97% of UK towns: 62%.
Below 95% of UK towns: 7.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 10% of residents, 1.6 times the share across England’s towns. 27% of residents are 65 or over. Elsewhere, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 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.
Eakring sits below 99% of UK towns for full-time students (2.1%)
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%.
By class, 43% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 16% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). The census found that nearly one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier in Eakring. For full-time students, the comparison across England’s towns is 7.9%.
Households with dependent children: 23%, a lower share than 87% of UK towns
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults are about as common here as across England’s towns, at 3.8%. Eakring has fewer one-person households than 91% of UK towns, at 24%. By way of comparison, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. The average household has 2.3 people.
Below 99% of UK towns: 1.1% of households live in a flat or apartment
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 without a car or van: 5.9%, below 98% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 82% of UK towns don’t reach
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
Here 4.6% of residents were born outside the UK, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. Residents whose main language is English: 90% across England’s towns, for comparison. The largest groups were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.8%) and in EU countries (1.1%).
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 82% of UK towns: 55%
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: 93% of Eakring · Nottinghamshire’s towns 79% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
After White British, the most common groups are Mixed or multiple (4.3%), Other White (1.6%) and Chinese (0.2%). Elsewhere, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. On residents with no religion, Eakring sits lower than 69% of UK towns: 38%. Set against 73% across England’s towns, 93% of residents describe themselves as White British locally.
Eakring ranks above 99% of UK towns on unpaid carers: 14%
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 figure for married adults and civil partners is 62% in Eakring and 44% across England’s towns. Typically, 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 19.
40% of adults have a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 40% of Eakring’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 13% have no qualification (18%).
A younger town than 1 of the 7 around it: Eakring
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eakring | 440 | — | 52.4 | 27% | 23% |
| Bilsthorpe | 3,490 | 1.8 mi | 46.6 | 21% | 26% |
| Farnsfield | 3,217 | 3.6 mi | 48.9 | 28% | 28% |
| New Ollerton and Ollerton | 10,870 | 3.9 mi | 41.6 | 19% | 26% |
| Edwinstowe | 5,327 | 4.2 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 23% |
| Southwell | 7,405 | 5.2 mi | 50.4 | 30% | 23% |
| Walesby | 1,217 | 5.4 mi | 56.4 | 35% | 18% |
| Rainworth | 7,990 | 5.5 mi | 42.9 | 19% | 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 Eakring’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 Eakring’s residents
What is the population of Eakring?
The 2021 Census counted 440 people in Eakring’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Eakring?
The median age was 52.4 at the 2021 Census. 7.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Eakring?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 79% across Nottinghamshire’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Eakring?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is Eakring good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Eakring’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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