Photo: Chemical Engineer · CC BY-SA 4.0Rawdon sits above 91% of UK towns for households with dependent children (34%)
Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24; in Rawdon, 8.1%. Census day 2021: 6,738 residents and 2,792 households here. Married adults and civil partners: 55% of the total. Compared with other places, shared households of unrelated adults are scarce here: 1.6%, fewer than in 88% of UK towns.
What the Census says about Rawdon’s people
Growing faster than most
ONS mid-year estimates put Rawdon at 5,600 in 2011 and 7,100 in 2024, up 27%, against 10% for England: faster growth than in 92% of UK towns. Since 2011 ↓
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.
Rawdon’s population changed by +27% since 2011, more than in 92% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Rawdon’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; 7,100 in 2024.
Between mid-2018 and mid-2019 the population rose by 390, its biggest one-year gain. The 0 to 15 group saw the biggest change (+43%), the 45 to 64 group the smallest (+4%).
Half of Rawdon is under 40.3, younger than 79% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
35–39 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents. Residents aged 65 and over are rarer here than in 73% of UK towns. In Addingham, the oldest of West Yorkshire’s towns by this measure, it is 38%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Rawdon, 40.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Rawdon sits above 69% of UK towns for residents who moved in within the year (9.7%)
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%.
4.9% of adults are full-time students, against 7.9% across England’s towns. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
One-person households make up 24% in Rawdon, less than in 88% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against West Yorkshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
At 2.4 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across England’s towns. The share of one-person households across England’s towns is 30%.
10% of households have no car or van, fewer than in 80% 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
6.8% of households live in a flat or apartment; across England’s towns the figure is 23%. The census found that 27% of households live in a terraced house in Rawdon. Households in detached houses are rarer here than in 63% of UK towns. By way of comparison, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
97% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 56% 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%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Compared with 18% across England’s towns, 6.1% of residents were born outside the UK here. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Middle East and Asia (2.4%) and in EU countries (1.7%). The share of residents whose main language is English across England’s towns is 90%.
A lower White British share than 67% of UK towns: 89% of residents
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: 89% of Rawdon · West Yorkshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns, against 42% in Rawdon. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 73% across England’s towns, for comparison. Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (2.2%), Indian (2.1%) and Mixed or multiple (2.1%).
In Rawdon, 30% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 68% 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
Across England’s towns, the share of unpaid carers is 8.7%; Rawdon has 7.5%. Some 111 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. The share of adults who have never married across England’s towns is 39%.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 48% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 48% of Rawdon’s adults, against 34% across England’s towns; 11% have no qualification (18%).
Ranked by age, 77th youngest of 473 UK towns this size
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 30.9 in Red Lodge to 65.3 in Barton on Sea. Nearest to Rawdon in age: Blaenavon (40.2), Wingate (40.3), Upton (40.3) and Faringdon (40.4).
Every neighbour of Rawdon has an older population
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
- “West Yorkshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in West Yorkshire (or England), summed the same way as Rawdon’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. Rawdon’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 7,013 people in 2021, against 6,738 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 Rawdon’s residents
What is the population of Rawdon?
The 2021 Census counted 6,738 people in Rawdon’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 7,100 people in mid-2024, 27% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Rawdon?
The median age was 40.3 at the 2021 Census, younger than 79% of UK towns. 8.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 19% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Rawdon?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across West Yorkshire’s towns. 6.1% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Rawdon?
42% said they had no religion and 49% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.1% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Rawdon good for families?
34% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Rawdon’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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