Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Rockgreen is younger than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 31.4
Households average 2.6 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Locally, 48% of households have dependent children. More residents who describe themselves as White British than in 97% of UK towns: 97%. Rockgreen had 243 residents in 94 households at the 2021 Census.
Rockgreen sits below 99% of UK towns for residents aged 65 and over (7.9%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The share of residents aged 15 to 24 tops 96% of UK towns: 14%. The usual figure: 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 109 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 82% of UK towns: 4.1% of adults are full-time students
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%.
At 11%, residents who moved in within the year sit close to the figure across England’s towns. The wider picture: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Rockgreen sits below 99% of UK towns for shared households of unrelated adults (1.1%)
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Shropshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
By its share of one-person households (27%), Rockgreen is below 76% of UK towns. Set beside that, 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
In Rockgreen, 8.4% of households live in a detached house, fewer than in 96% 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
16% of households live in a flat or apartment, against 23% across England’s towns. Few places have so few households without a car or van: 12% here, fewer than in 72% of UK towns. To put it in context, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
4.1% of residents were born outside the UK, below 76% of UK towns
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, 90% of residents have English as their main language; in Rockgreen, 98%. The benchmark for residents born outside the UK across England’s towns: 18%. The largest groups were born in EU countries (2.9%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.4%).
Above 95% of UK towns: 51% of residents said they have no religion
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: 97% of Rockgreen · Shropshire’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 42%, below 89% of UK towns. On average, 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns.
A higher share of unpaid carers than 99% of UK towns, at 13%
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
9 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. On adults who have never married, Rockgreen sits higher than 97% of UK towns: 48%. Across England’s towns, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care. The figure for married adults and civil partners is 40% in Rockgreen and 44% across England’s towns.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 16% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Rockgreen’s adults: 16% with a degree-level qualification and 14% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Every nearby town is older than Rockgreen
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockgreen | 243 | — | 31.4 | 7.9% | 48% |
| Ludlow | 10,037 | 0.5 mi | 52.2 | 32% | 18% |
| Tenbury Wells | 3,936 | 6.6 mi | 50.8 | 30% | 24% |
| Craven Arms | 2,563 | 7.1 mi | 45.4 | 24% | 25% |
| Cleobury Mortimer | 2,963 | 9.3 mi | 46.5 | 24% | 28% |
| Leominster | 11,206 | 10.6 mi | 44.9 | 25% | 25% |
| Church Stretton | 3,576 | 11.8 mi | 61.1 | 43% | 15% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Shropshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Shropshire (or England), summed the same way as Rockgreen’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 Rockgreen’s residents
What is the population of Rockgreen?
The 2021 Census counted 243 people in Rockgreen’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Rockgreen?
The median age was 31.4 at the 2021 Census. 14% of residents were 15 to 24 and 7.9% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Rockgreen?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Shropshire’s towns. 4.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Rockgreen?
51% said they had no religion and 42% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Rockgreen good for families?
48% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Rockgreen’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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