Photo: Bob Harvey · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 51.9: Ryhall is older than 92% of UK towns
Against a figure of 23% across England’s towns, the share of households in flats in Ryhall comes in at 4%. At the 2021 Census, 1,444 people lived in the village, in 643 households. The share of shared households of unrelated adults stands at 1.6%. Fewer residents with no religion than in 86% of UK towns: 34%.
What the Census says about Ryhall’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Ryhall’s residents are under 51.9 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 30% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
A higher share of residents aged 65 and over than 90% of UK towns, at 30%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 70–74 than any other five-year age: 9.2% of residents, 1.9 times the share across England’s towns. Lower than in 92% of UK towns: 8% of residents are aged 15 to 24. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
3.4% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 96% of UK towns
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%.
34% of Ryhall’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Locally, 7.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier. Across England’s towns, the share of full-time students is 7.9%.
In Ryhall, 23% of households have dependent children, fewer than in 87% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Rutland’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The average household has 2.2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. One-person households account for 31%. As a reference point, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
In Ryhall, 9.1% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 87% 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
In Ryhall, just over two in five households live in a detached house, beside 21% across England’s towns. 13% of households live in a terraced house, a lower share than in 80% of UK towns. For households without a car or van, the comparison across England’s towns is 24%.
A larger share of residents whose main language is English than 93% 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
In Ryhall, 4.6% of residents were born outside the UK, beside 18% across England’s towns. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (2.2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). Typically, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
60% describe themselves as Christian, more than in 94% 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: 96% of Ryhall · Rutland’s towns 91% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The groups that follow White British are Other White (1.7%), Mixed or multiple (0.9%) and African (0.5%). Against that, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. 96% of residents describe themselves as White British, a higher share than in 90% of UK towns.
Ryhall ranks below 94% of UK towns on adults who have never married: 25%
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
53% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 44% across England’s towns. In Ryhall, 10% of residents give unpaid care. The wider picture: nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns.
32% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 32% of Ryhall’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 15% have no qualification (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Ryhall
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Rutland’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Rutland (or England), summed the same way as Ryhall’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 Ryhall’s residents
What is the population of Ryhall?
The 2021 Census counted 1,444 people in Ryhall’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ryhall?
The median age was 51.9 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 30% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ryhall?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 91% across Rutland’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Ryhall?
34% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.3% didn’t answer.
Is Ryhall good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ryhall’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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