Rushcliffe: local statistics
Rushcliffe is a district council area in the East Midlands, home to an estimated 127,857 people (mid-2025). This page brings together 10 official figures for the area, each with its period, publisher and the address it was read from. See also who has power over Rushcliffe, from the council up to the G20.
Key figures
What the figures show
A girl born in Rushcliffe in 2022 to 2024 could expect to live 85.6 years and a boy 82.0 years, on the ONS's period measure, compared with 83.3 and 79.5 years across England. Since 2012 to 2014 it has changed by +0.8 years for women and +0.8 for men. It is the highest for women in the East Midlands.
A typical home in Rushcliffe cost £324,012 in July 2026, on the UK House Price Index, down 1.5% on July 2025. Among council areas that puts it the 3rd highest in the East Midlands (regional average £242,274). Since July 2016 prices have risen 41%; the July high in the series was £328,935 in 2025. The average price is 7.0 times the median annual pay of full-time employees who live in Rushcliffe. That ratio is the 11th highest ratio of all 35 council areas in the East Midlands.
The median full-time employee living in Rushcliffe was paid £855.90 a week before tax in April 2025, or £45,968 over a year. It is the 2nd highest of all 35 council areas in the East Midlands, and 18.7% more than across the East Midlands. Measured by where people work rather than where they live, the median is £760.30, £95.60 lower. Ten years earlier, in 2015, it was £621.10: a change of +38% before inflation.
In August 2026, 1,565 people in Rushcliffe were on the claimant count, 2.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 (the East Midlands: 3.5%). Twelve months before, it was 1.9%. The five-year high was 2.4% (August 2021); the low was 1.6% (July 2022).
127,857 people lived in Rushcliffe in mid-2025, according to the ONS, a change of +1.4% in a year. Over ten years, since mid-2015, it has grown by 13.1% (the East Midlands: +8.6%). That is 5th of 35 in the East Midlands, counting from the fastest growth. No earlier year in the series was higher.
Average Band D council tax in Rushcliffe is £2,643.27 for 2026-27, 4.4% more than in 2025-26. That makes it the 5th highest of 35 in the East Midlands. Ten years earlier, in 2016-17, it was £1,731.04.
The ONS counted 5,830 VAT or PAYE-registered businesses in Rushcliffe in March 2026, 3% more than in 2016. That is 46 for every 1,000 residents, the 9th highest of 35 in the East Midlands.
An estimated 78.8% of people aged 16 to 64 living in Rushcliffe were in work in April 2025 to March 2026, according to the ONS Annual Population Survey, with a margin of error of 5.4 points either way, against 75.4% across the East Midlands. Over the 11 years shown it ranged from 75.3% to 82.4%.
The Home Office does not publish recorded crime for Rushcliffe on its own for recent years, so this page gives the figure for the Nottinghamshire police force area: 101,425 offences excluding fraud in the year to March 2026, 3,307 more than the year before.
History
Population (mid-year)
| 2015 | 113,009 |
| 2016 | 113,450 |
| 2017 | 114,226 |
| 2018 | 115,461 |
| 2019 | 116,647 |
| 2020 | 118,030 |
| 2021 | 119,418 |
| 2022 | 121,706 |
| 2023 | 124,076 |
| 2024 | 126,124 |
| 2025 | 127,857 |
Average house price (same month each year)
| July 2016 | £229,573 |
| July 2017 | £245,376 |
| July 2018 | £255,926 |
| July 2019 | £264,887 |
| July 2020 | £276,360 |
| July 2021 | £286,161 |
| July 2022 | £319,761 |
| July 2023 | £314,981 |
| July 2024 | £312,997 |
| July 2025 | £328,935 |
| July 2026 | £324,012 |
Median weekly pay, residents
| 2015 | £621.10 a week |
| 2016 | £644.20 a week |
| 2017 | £675.10 a week |
| 2018 | £697.90 a week |
| 2019 | £702.20 a week |
| 2020 | £682.70 a week |
| 2021 | £660.80 a week |
| 2022 | £708.40 a week |
| 2023 | £775.60 a week |
| 2024 | £804.90 a week |
| 2025 | £855.90 a week |
Average Band D council tax
| 2016-17 | £1,731.04 |
| 2017-18 | £1,803.77 |
| 2018-19 | £1,890.38 |
| 2019-20 | £1,979.27 |
| 2020-21 | £2,056.15 |
| 2021-22 | £2,124.39 |
| 2022-23 | £2,205.59 |
| 2023-24 | £2,310.53 |
| 2024-25 | £2,416.58 |
| 2025-26 | £2,531.50 |
| 2026-27 | £2,643.27 |
Employment rate
| 2015/16 | 79.5% |
| 2016/17 | 77.4% |
| 2017/18 | 81.4% |
| 2018/19 | 81.3% |
| 2019/20 | 79.8% |
| 2020/21 | 75.3% |
| 2021/22 | 80.1% |
| 2022/23 | 82.4% |
| 2023/24 | 80.3% |
| 2024/25 | 76.7% |
| 2025/26 | 78.8% |
Life expectancy, women
| 2012 to 2014 | 84.8 years |
| 2013 to 2015 | 85.0 years |
| 2014 to 2016 | 84.9 years |
| 2015 to 2017 | 84.4 years |
| 2016 to 2018 | 84.5 years |
| 2017 to 2019 | 84.5 years |
| 2018 to 2020 | 84.9 years |
| 2019 to 2021 | 84.5 years |
| 2020 to 2022 | 85.0 years |
| 2021 to 2023 | 85.1 years |
| 2022 to 2024 | 85.6 years |
Registered businesses
| 2016 | 5,675 |
| 2017 | 5,935 |
| 2018 | 5,855 |
| 2019 | 5,965 |
| 2020 | 5,960 |
| 2021 | 5,985 |
| 2022 | 5,960 |
| 2023 | 5,830 |
| 2024 | 5,720 |
| 2025 | 5,700 |
| 2026 | 5,830 |
Questions about Rushcliffe
What is life expectancy in Rushcliffe?
For 2022 to 2024 the ONS gives 82.0 years for men and 85.6 for women.
What is the average house price in Rushcliffe?
HM Land Registry's figure for July 2026 is £324,012.
What is the average salary in Rushcliffe?
£855.90 a week before tax, the median for full-time employees who live there (April 2025, ONS).
How many people claim unemployment-related benefits in Rushcliffe?
The ONS claimant count was 1,565 in August 2026, 2.1% of 16 to 64-year-olds. It counts benefit claims, not unemployment.
What is the population of Rushcliffe?
127,857 in mid-2025, the latest ONS mid-year estimate.
How much is Band D council tax in Rushcliffe?
£2,643.27 on average for 2026-27, including police, fire and parish precepts (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government).
Who has power over Rushcliffe
Every body that makes decisions for Rushcliffe, from the street up to the G20. Each one links to its page on the official record. How the ten levels work.
Level 1: Neighbourhood and community power
Residents' and tenants' groups, neighbourhood forums and local policing panels.
Level 2: Parish, town and community councils
Parish, town and community councils, where the area has them, sit below the council.
Level 3: Local councils
- Rushcliffe council spending, reserves, debt and council tax
- Rushcliffe in official figures this page
Level 4: County councils, combined authorities and metro mayors
- Nottinghamshire County Council county council
- East Midlands Combined Authority combined authority
- Nottinghamshire Police police force
- NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board NHS
- East Midlands in official figures
Level 5: Devolved and state governments
England has no devolved parliament of its own: its laws are made by the UK Parliament.
Level 6: National government
- Newark: Robert Jenrick (Reform UK) MP
- Rushcliffe: James Naish (Labour) MP
- All 650 MPs votes, interests and costs
- UK government and Parliament official figures and sources
Level 7: Regional blocs and supranational bodies
- Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (CoE / ECtHR) The UK Government says the United Kingdom was one of the Council of Europe's founding members.
Level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies
- United Nations (General Assembly and Security Council) The UN lists the United Kingdom as a member admitted on 24 October 1945.
- United Nations Security Council (UNSC) The UK is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and holds the veto, according to the UN.
- NATO NATO lists the United Kingdom among its 12 founding members, which signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- World Health Organization (WHO) WHO's list of member states includes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- World Trade Organization (WTO) The WTO says the United Kingdom has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995 and a member of GATT since 1 January 1948.
- Commonwealth of Nations The UK is one of the 56 members, one of three European members with Cyprus and Malta, and the Commonwealth Secretariat is headquartered at Marlborough House in London.
Level 9: The IMF, World Bank and global finance
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) The UK has been a member since 27 December 1945 and has a quota of SDR 20,155.1 million (IMF country page for the United Kingdom).
- World Bank Group (WBG) The UK holds 3.75% of voting power in the IBRD (data as of 30 June 2026) and 6.92% in IDA (as of 30 June 2026), according to the World Bank's voting tables.
Level 10: G7, G20, Davos and global forums
Sources
Each value above links to the official file or query it was read from, on 14 October 2026. What each figure measures.
- Recorded crime (police force area): This figure covers the whole Nottinghamshire police force area, not just Rushcliffe, because the Home Office tables do not give Rushcliffe on its own. It is the sum of the force's partnership rows, including offences not assigned to a partnership, and excludes fraud.
More on this area and these figures
- Council money: spending, reserves and debt
- Figures for the whole region: the East Midlands
- UK figures: Life expectancy at birth (UK) · UK average house price · UK average weekly earnings growth
- Other council areas in the East Midlands: Amber Valley · Ashfield · Bassetlaw · Gedling · Newark and Sherwood · North Kesteven
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