Photo: Oxyman · CC BY 2.5Half of Finchingfield is over 53.1, older than 94% of UK towns
44% of households live in a detached house (England’s towns: 21%). The 2021 Census counted 728 residents in 316 households. Across Finchingfield, nearly three in five adults are married or in a civil partnership. Households with dependent children are rarer here than in 93% of UK towns.
More residents aged 65 and over than 85% of UK towns: 28%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, 9.1% of residents are aged 15 to 24 here. Against that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A lower share of full-time students than 94% of UK towns, at 3.5%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in two in five adults here, routine and semi-routine work 19% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Elsewhere, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Here, 7.2% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Fewer people live alone than in 70% of UK towns: 28% of households
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Essex’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The share of shared households of unrelated adults is 3.2%, against 4.3% across England’s towns. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison. A household here holds 2.3 people on average.
5.1% of households live in a terraced house, fewer than in 98% 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
24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns, against 8% in Finchingfield. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 4.1%, fewer than in 87% of UK towns.
Finchingfield sits above 92% of UK towns for residents whose main language is English (99%)
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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.7%) and in Africa (1.4%). For comparison, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Lower than in just over two thirds of UK towns: 4.7% of residents were born outside the UK.
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, a share 91% of UK towns don’t reach
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: 96% of Finchingfield · Essex’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 55% here and 46% across England’s towns. Across Finchingfield, 39% of residents said they have no religion. To put it in context, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns.
In Finchingfield, 24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 94% 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
11% of residents give unpaid care, against 8.7% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. For 20 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
Degree level: the highest qualification of 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 30% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 18% hold no qualification (18%).
The towns around Finchingfield are all younger
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finchingfield | 728 | — | 53.1 | 28% | 21% |
| Great Bardfield | 1,372 | 1.4 mi | 49.6 | 25% | 24% |
| Thaxted | 3,111 | 4.5 mi | 45.3 | 24% | 29% |
| Stebbing | 1,061 | 5.1 mi | 48.7 | 25% | 30% |
| Steeple Bumpstead | 1,376 | 5.4 mi | 48.8 | 25% | 25% |
| Great Yeldham | 1,824 | 5.9 mi | 45.6 | 20% | 30% |
| Sible Hedingham | 4,261 | 5.9 mi | 41.4 | 21% | 30% |
| Castle Hedingham | 1,045 | 6.5 mi | 52.9 | 32% | 21% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Essex’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Essex (or England), summed the same way as Finchingfield’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- 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 Finchingfield’s residents
What is the population of Finchingfield?
The 2021 Census counted 728 people in Finchingfield’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Finchingfield?
The median age was 53.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Finchingfield?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across Essex’s towns. 4.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Finchingfield?
39% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 4.3% didn’t answer.
Is Finchingfield good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Finchingfield’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). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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