Photo: Matthew Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.049% of households live in a detached house, more than in 88% of UK towns
With households without a car or van at 9.4%, Haddenham is behind 86% of UK towns on that count. By contrast, 54% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, more than in 83% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 3,050 people lived locally, in 1,302 households. Census figures put shared households of unrelated adults at 1.8% locally.
Since 2011, Haddenham has changed by +5%, slower than 60% of UK towns
ONS mid-year estimates, each year indexed to mid-2011 = 100. Haddenham’s figure is the small areas (2021 LSOAs) that make up the town.
People, mid-2011 = 100
Change by age, 2011 to 2024
About 3,000 people in 2011; 3,200 in 2024.
The 65 and over age group changed most (+54%) and the 30 to 44 least (−14%).
Half of Haddenham is over 47.3, older than 71% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
In Haddenham, 9.9% of residents are aged 15 to 24, beside 12% across England’s towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 23%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Haddenham, 47.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 84% of UK towns: 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%.
Here 4.5% of adults are full-time students, where the figure across England’s towns is 7.9%. Residents who moved in within the year make up 11% across England’s towns.
2.3 people per household, more than in 65% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Cambridgeshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Set against 30% across England’s towns, 28% of households are one person living alone in Haddenham. The census found that 27% of households have dependent children locally.
Haddenham sits below 85% of UK towns for households in flats (4.6%)
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
Across England’s towns, 24% of households live in a terraced house; in Haddenham, 12%. Elsewhere, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Residents whose main language is English make up 98% in Haddenham, more than in 57% 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
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in EU countries (3.8%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%). Across England’s towns, the share of residents whose main language is English is 90%. Just over a tenth of the town’s residents born abroad came in 2017 or later, set against 21% across England’s towns.
43% said they have no religion, more than in 65% of UK towns
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: 92% of Haddenham · Cambridgeshire’s towns 72% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46%; Haddenham has 50%. Next after White British come Other White (4.4%), Mixed or multiple (1.6%) and Indian (0.3%). The comparison figure for residents with no religion is 37% across England’s towns.
27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 84% 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
Heavy unpaid care, 50 hours a week or more, falls to 70 residents. The comparison figure for adults who have never married is 39% across England’s towns. Unpaid carers make up 9.1%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Among adults, 32% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 32% of adults in Haddenham, 34% across England’s towns; 18% have no qualification, against 18%.
Of 514 UK towns its size (2,500 to 4,000 people), the 242nd oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Keele is the youngest (20.6); West Chiltington the oldest (63.1). Nearest to Haddenham in age: Adderbury and Twyford (47.2), Llandybie (47.2), Mortimer (47.3) and Menai Bridge (47.3).
No nearby town is as old as Haddenham
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
- “Cambridgeshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Cambridgeshire (or England), summed the same way as Haddenham’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. Haddenham’s trend uses the small areas (2021 LSOAs) with most of their people inside it: 3,137 people in 2021, against 3,050 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 Haddenham’s residents
What is the population of Haddenham?
The 2021 Census counted 3,050 people in Haddenham’s built-up area. The ONS estimates the same small areas held 3,200 people in mid-2024, 5% more than in 2011.
What is the average age in Haddenham?
The median age was 47.3 at the 2021 Census, older than 71% of UK towns. 9.9% of residents were 15 to 24 and 23% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Haddenham?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 72% across Cambridgeshire’s towns. 6.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Haddenham?
43% said they had no religion and 50% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Haddenham good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Haddenham’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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