Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 96% of UK towns: half of Oldcotes is over 54.7
The share of households with dependent children is 17%, against 29% across England’s towns. Census day 2021: 311 residents and 144 households in Oldcotes. Households without a car or van: 5.6% of the total. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns.
Oldcotes ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents aged 15 to 24: 6.8%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, Oldcotes has 34%. For comparison, 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.
Oldcotes ranks below 99% of UK towns on residents who moved in within the year: 2.6%
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, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Oldcotes has 39% and 19%. To put it in context, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. The census found that 4% of adults are full-time students in the village.
Fewer people live alone than in 82% of UK towns: 26% of households
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.
Households average 2.2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns.
A smaller share of households in terraced houses than 99% of UK towns: 3.5%
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 detached houses: 60% here and 21% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for households in terraced houses is 24% across England’s towns.
Fewer residents born abroad than 98% of UK towns: 2.3%
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
Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%; Oldcotes has 100%. The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (0.6%), then in the Middle East and Asia (0.6%).
65% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 98% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 95% of Oldcotes · Nottinghamshire’s towns 79% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
In Oldcotes, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, beside 73% across England’s towns. 31% of residents said they have no religion. For residents who describe themselves as Christian, the comparison across England’s towns is 46%.
63% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 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
Here 10% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%. Married adults and civil partners make up 44% across England’s towns. Census figures put adults who have never married at 22% in Oldcotes.
A degree-level qualification for 31% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Oldcotes’s adults: 31% with a degree-level qualification and 18% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Of the 7 towns nearest Oldcotes, 2 are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oldcotes | 311 | — | 54.7 | 34% | 17% |
| Langold | 2,603 | 0.9 mi | 40.4 | 19% | 28% |
| Carlton in Lindrick | 5,460 | 2.2 mi | 48.7 | 28% | 24% |
| Blyth | 1,264 | 2.5 mi | 52.1 | 31% | 23% |
| Harworth and Bircotes | 8,885 | 3 mi | 39.6 | 18% | 29% |
| Tickhill | 4,909 | 3.1 mi | 55.3 | 35% | 20% |
| Woodsetts | 1,695 | 3.8 mi | 56 | 35% | 18% |
| Ranskill | 1,435 | 4.4 mi | 48.4 | 27% | 27% |
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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 Oldcotes’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 Oldcotes’s residents
What is the population of Oldcotes?
The 2021 Census counted 311 people in Oldcotes’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Oldcotes?
The median age was 54.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 34% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Oldcotes?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 79% across Nottinghamshire’s towns. 2.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Oldcotes?
31% said they had no religion and 65% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 2.3% didn’t answer.
Is Oldcotes good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Oldcotes’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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