Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 55.2: Norwell is older than 97% of UK towns
Here nearly a fifth of households are one person living alone, where the figure across England’s towns is 30%. Households in terraced houses: nearly a tenth of the total. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put Norwell’s population at 471, in 204 households.
Above 87% of UK towns: 28% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The figure for residents aged 15 to 24 is 8.5% in Norwell and 12% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 99% of UK towns: 5.1%
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%.
Set against 7.9% across England’s towns, 5% of adults are full-time students in Norwell. As a reference point, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
A smaller share of households with dependent children than 92% of UK towns: 21%
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.
2% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home; across England’s towns the figure is 4.3%. Across England’s towns, households with dependent children come to 29%. Households average 2.3 people.
Norwell sits below 99% of UK towns for households without a car or van (3.9%)
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
Compared with 21% across England’s towns, just over two thirds of households live in a detached house here. Across England’s towns, households without a car or van come to 24%.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 91% of UK towns: 99%
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
3.8% of residents were born outside the UK, against 13% across Nottinghamshire’s towns and 18% across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.5%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.3%). As a reference point, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White British than 99% of UK towns: 98%
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 Norwell · Nottinghamshire’s towns 79% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
By its share of residents who describe themselves as Christian (63%), Norwell is above 97% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as White British come to 73%. The share of residents with no religion stands at 32%.
Married adults and civil partners: 66%, a higher share than 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
Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%; Norwell has 9.9%. Some 10 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns.
A degree-level qualification for 46% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Norwell’s adults: 46% with a degree-level qualification and 10% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Every neighbour of Norwell has a younger population
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwell | 471 | — | 55.2 | 28% | 21% |
| Sutton on Trent | 1,244 | 2.9 mi | 48.3 | 24% | 26% |
| Collingham | 2,870 | 3.8 mi | 54.7 | 36% | 20% |
| Newark-on-Trent | 29,755 | 5.5 mi | 40 | 18% | 26% |
| Coddington | 1,165 | 5.7 mi | 45.3 | 24% | 30% |
| Farndon | 2,472 | 5.9 mi | 52.9 | 31% | 21% |
| Tuxford | 2,810 | 6 mi | 46.4 | 24% | 28% |
| Southwell | 7,405 | 6.4 mi | 50.4 | 30% | 23% |
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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 Norwell’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 Norwell’s residents
What is the population of Norwell?
The 2021 Census counted 471 people in Norwell’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Norwell?
The median age was 55.2 at the 2021 Census. 8.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Norwell?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 79% across Nottinghamshire’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Norwell?
32% said they had no religion and 63% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Norwell good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Norwell’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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