Newstead Abbey · Photo: brianfagan from Nottingham, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0A median age of 52.2: Ravenshead is older than 92% of UK towns
2.8% of households live in a terraced house, against 24% across England’s towns. The share of adults who have never married stands at 21%. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 2.9%, fewer than in 94% of UK towns. Ravenshead counted 5,370 residents and 2,324 households at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about Ravenshead’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Ravenshead’s residents are under 52.2 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 31% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Many carers
602 residents gave unpaid care to someone with an illness, disability or old age in 2021, 12% of those 5 and over: more than in 95% of UK towns. Relationships & caring ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area) and ONS mid-year population estimates.
Ravenshead changed by +4% from 2011 to 2024, slower than 67% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Ravenshead’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 5,600 people in 2011; 5,800 in 2024.
Growth was strongest among the 65 and over (+24%) and weakest among the 30 to 44 (−13%). No year added more people than mid-2013 to mid-2014: 80.
Ravenshead ranks above 93% of UK towns on residents aged 65 and over: 31%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
By its share of residents aged 15 to 24 (7.8%), Ravenshead is below 95% of UK towns. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Ravenshead, 52.2. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Only 7.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Ravenshead
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%.
With full-time students at 4.6%, Ravenshead is behind just over three fifths of UK towns on that count. Against that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
Ravenshead sits below 89% of UK towns for one-person households (24%)
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 trails 71% of UK towns: 2%. Add to that, just over a quarter of households have dependent children, a lower share than in 66% of UK towns. The benchmark for one-person households across England’s towns: 30%. There are 2.3 people in the average household.
85% of households live in a detached house, more 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
Households without a car or van make up 7.6%, against 24% across England’s towns. 2.9% of households live in a flat, less than in 94% of UK towns; 85% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns.
More residents whose main language is English than 59% of UK towns: 98%
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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
6% of residents were born outside the UK, against 18% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in the Middle East and Asia (2.4%) and in EU countries (2.2%).
Ravenshead: 52% of residents describe themselves as Christian, above 64% 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: 90% of Ravenshead · Nottinghamshire’s towns 79% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
39% of residents said they have no religion (England’s towns: 37%). On average, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. In Ravenshead, nine in ten residents describe themselves as White British.
Ravenshead ranks above 99% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 63%
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 12% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%. As a yardstick, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid care takes 50 hours a week or more for 139 people.
44% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 44% of its adults qualified to degree level, Ravenshead compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 11% hold no qualification (18%).
Among 516 UK towns of 4,000 to 7,000 people, the 59th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Barton on Sea the oldest (65.3). Nearest to Ravenshead in age: West Kingsdown (52.1), Carleton (52.2), Wirksworth (52.2) and Gnosall (52.2).
No nearby town is as old as Ravenshead
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravenshead | 5,370 | — | 52.2 | 31% | 26% |
| Blidworth | 4,295 | 2.2 mi | 43.1 | 19% | 28% |
| Rainworth | 7,990 | 2.9 mi | 42.9 | 19% | 28% |
| Newstead | 2,204 | 3 mi | 34.4 | 11% | 34% |
| Annesley Woodhouse | 6,162 | 3.8 mi | 48.6 | 25% | 23% |
| Kirkby-in-Ashfield | 21,262 | 4 mi | 40.5 | 18% | 30% |
| Mansfield | 63,448 | 4 mi | 41 | 18% | 27% |
| Hucknall | 35,848 | 4.2 mi | 40.3 | 18% | 29% |
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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 Ravenshead’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out. The population trend compares with the whole county and nation.
- Estimates since 2021 are modelled. The ONS builds mid-year estimates from the Census, births, deaths and migration records. Ravenshead’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 5,892 people in 2021, against 5,370 in the built-up area.
- 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 Ravenshead’s residents
What is the population of Ravenshead?
The 2021 Census counted 5,370 people in Ravenshead’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 5,800 people in mid-2024, 4% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Ravenshead?
The median age was 52.2 at the 2021 Census, older than 92% of UK towns. 7.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ravenshead?
90% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 79% across Nottinghamshire’s towns. 6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ravenshead?
39% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 5% didn’t answer.
Is Ravenshead good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ravenshead’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) · ONS mid-year population estimates for 2021 LSOAs, mid-2011 to mid-2024. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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