Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 58.1: Wellow is older than 99% of UK towns
16% of households have dependent children (England’s towns: 29%). Few places have so few residents with no religion: 27% here, fewer than in 96% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 463 people lived in Wellow, in 215 households. For Wellow, the census puts households in terraced houses at 2.3%.
Above 98% of UK towns: 38% of residents are 65 or over
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: 11% of residents, 2.4 times the share across England’s towns. At 4.8%, the share of residents aged 15 to 24 is lower than in 99% of UK towns. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over 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.
Fewer full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 1.2%
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%.
The share of residents who moved in within the year is 6.1%, against 11% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for full-time students is 7.9% across England’s towns.
Wellow sits below 85% of UK towns for one-person households (25%)
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.
At 2.2 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. On the census count, 1.9% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home.
In Wellow, 7% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 95% 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
57% of households live in a detached house (England’s towns: 21%). Census figures put households in flats at 3.7% in Wellow. The benchmark for households without a car or van across England’s towns: 24%.
Only 0.9% of Wellow’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (0.4%) or in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.4%). At 100%, the share of residents whose main language is English is higher than in 99% of UK towns. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%.
Above 99% of UK towns: 98% of residents describe themselves as White British
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 Wellow · Nottinghamshire’s towns 79% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 69% here and 46% across England’s towns. Elsewhere, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
More married adults and civil partners than 99% of UK towns: 65%
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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 17. 19% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. Typically, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership across England’s towns. Compared with 8.7% across England’s towns, 13% of residents give unpaid care here.
A degree-level qualification for 33% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 33% of adults in Wellow, 34% across England’s towns; 20% have no qualification, against 18%.
The towns around Wellow are all younger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellow | 463 | — | 58.1 | 38% | 16% |
| New Ollerton and Ollerton | 10,870 | 1.3 mi | 41.6 | 19% | 26% |
| Edwinstowe | 5,327 | 2.9 mi | 49.3 | 27% | 23% |
| Walesby | 1,217 | 2.9 mi | 56.4 | 35% | 18% |
| Bilsthorpe | 3,490 | 3.6 mi | 46.6 | 21% | 26% |
| Tuxford | 2,810 | 5.3 mi | 46.4 | 24% | 28% |
| Farnsfield | 3,217 | 5.9 mi | 48.9 | 28% | 28% |
| Meden Vale | 2,095 | 6 mi | 37.7 | 15% | 31% |
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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 Wellow’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 Wellow’s residents
What is the population of Wellow?
The 2021 Census counted 463 people in Wellow’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Wellow?
The median age was 58.1 at the 2021 Census. 4.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 38% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Wellow?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 79% across Nottinghamshire’s towns. 0.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Wellow?
27% said they had no religion and 69% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 3.7% didn’t answer.
Is Wellow good for families?
16% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Wellow’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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