Ockbrook and Borrowash

Ockbrook and Borrowash
Queens Head, Ockbrook
Ockbrook and Borrowash is located in Derbyshire
Ockbrook and Borrowash
Ockbrook and Borrowash
Location within Derbyshire
Population7,335 (2011 census)
Civil parish
  • Ockbrook and Borrowash
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
List of places
UK
England
Derbyshire
52°54′42″N 1°22′10″W / 52.91165°N 1.36946°W / 52.91165; -1.36946 (Ockbrook and Borrowash)

Ockbrook and Borrowash (grid reference SK425351) is a civil parish in the borough of Erewash in the county of Derbyshire in England.

It straddles the A52 a few miles east of Derby and contains two adjacent villages: Ockbrook, which lies just north of the A52 and Borrowash which lies to the south.

The 2001 Census records Ockbrook and Borrowash having a population of 7,331 people, with 1,443 being aged 0–15, 4,504 being 16-64 and 1,384 being 65 or older. These people make up 3006 households. 2,456 of the homes are owner occupied (81.7%), higher than the Derbyshire average of 74.4%. The unemployment rate is 2.5%, less than the Derbyshire average of 3.2%. The civil parish population at the 2011 Census had increased marginally to 7,335.[1]

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 March 2016.