Equality information
We want the services we provide to be fair and free from discrimination. We do this through a better understanding of the people we serve. We gain insight into our community by listening to what you tell us. We also use a range of information and data when making decisions about how to run our services.
This page provides details and links on a range of equality information that we use when making decisions and which may be useful to other businesses and organisations when developing your own policies and procedures. This data also helps us to meet our obligations under the Equality Act 2010.
Our Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2025 - 2029 outlines how we will continue to deliver accessible and focused services consistently and fairly to all sections of the community we serve.
If you have any questions, please get in touch.
Data from the 2021 census
Data collected in the 2021 census provides the characteristics of people and households within the district of Newark and Sherwood.
Age: Median age of 45.2 years with those 85+ making up 2.8% of the population.
Sex: Females make up 50.7% of the population whilst Males make up 49.3%.
Legal Partnership status: 47.7% of the population are married or in a registered civil partnership, 32.6% have never married, 10.4% have been divorced, whilst 7.1% have been widowed.
Ethnic group: 96.3% of the population are classified as ‘white’ whereas the remaining 3.3% are made up of Mixed or multiple ethnic groups (1.5%), Asian (1.1%), Black (0.7%), Other ethnic groups (0.7%).
Religion: 51% identified as a ‘Christian’ and are the most represented, ‘No religion’ makes up 41.2%, whilst the largest of the other religious groups identified as ‘Muslim’ (0.6%).
Proficiency in English: 95.9% informed that their main language was English whilst the remainder spoke English as a second language, can speak ‘very well’: 1.6%, well: 1.7%, ‘cannot speak well’: 0.7% with 0.1% suggesting that they ‘cannot speak English’.
Disability: 19.9% of the population identified as ‘Disabled under the equality act’ whilst the remining 80.1% identified as ‘not disabled under the equality act’. This demographic data highlights a community that is generally older, less ethnically diverse than national averages, with increasing numbers of people reporting disabilities or health-related limitations. These trends have significant implications for accessibility, service design, and inclusion efforts across the district.
More demographic information can be found at the Office for National Statistics.
Additional equality information
The following links also provide equalities information for the Newark and Sherwood District:
Nottinghamshire Help Yourself is a partnership between health, the voluntary sector and Nottinghamshire County Council to bring information and advice together in one central place - so people can find the information they need easily on matters such as looking after someone, things to do in the community, childcare, education training and work, financial and legal advice, help in your home and community, health and self-care, housing needs.
NOMIS provides official labour market statistics. This profile for Newark and Sherwood brings together data from several sources including information about the resident population, employment and unemployment.
Fulfilling Potential: Building Understanding provides an analysis of the current evidence on disability in the UK to inform the development of the next stage of work on Fulfilling Potential.
Disability in the United Kingdom provides an overview of key facts and figures surrounding disability. This report is the result of a comprehensive search of the latest key statistics on all aspects of disability and covers areas such as employment, health, housing etc.
At present, obtaining detailed information and statistics on the transgender population is very difficult as this has never been systematically done before and because people are reluctant to identify as transgender for fear of discrimination. Further information may be available from national organisations that work on transgender issues, including Stonewall, The Gender Trust, and GIRES.
The Council collects employee information to help us ensure employment practices are free from discrimination. Find out more on our workforce profile and information page.
Nottinghamshire Insight brings together a collection of resources such as reports, data, maps and profiles to form a picture of the County's population, health and wellbeing, economy and services. This content can be used to form an evidence base for planning, developing and improving local services.
The Ethnicity Facts and Figures data resource provides information about the different experiences of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. It gathers data collected by government in one place, making it available to the public, specialists and charities.
If you would like information in an alternative format, we will take reasonable steps to make the material available.