Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 92% of UK towns: half of Fingringhoe is over 52.1
Here 14% of residents give unpaid care, where the figure across England’s towns is 8.7%. More households in detached houses than in 99% of UK towns: 66%. At the 2021 Census Fingringhoe was home to 340 people in 127 households. For Fingringhoe, the census puts households in flats at 0.8%.
26% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 13% here and 12% across England’s towns. For comparison, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
5.6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, below 99% of UK towns
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%.
Full-time students are about as common here as across England’s towns: 7.7%. As a yardstick, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
25% of households are one person living alone, below 85% of UK towns
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.
Just over a quarter of households have dependent children; across England’s towns the figure is 29%. Elsewhere, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. The average household has 2.5 people.
Below 99% of UK towns: 3.1% of households live in a terraced house
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
5.4% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%.
Fingringhoe sits above 80% 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
Across England’s towns, the share of residents born outside the UK is 18%; Fingringhoe has 5%. Typically, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in EU countries (3.3%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.6%).
Fingringhoe ranks above 58% of UK towns on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 51%
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 Fingringhoe · Essex’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here two in five residents said they have no religion, where the figure across England’s towns is 37%. The usual figure: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Of the other groups, the largest are Other White (3.8%), Mixed or multiple (2.4%) and Indian (0.3%).
Only 47% of adults are married or in a civil partnership in Fingringhoe
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
Nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns, against 32% in Fingringhoe. For married adults and civil partners, the comparison across England’s towns is 44%.
Degree-level qualifications reach 36% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
36% of Fingringhoe’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 16% have none (18%). A levels are as far as 15% have gone so far, many of them students midway to a degree.
Around Fingringhoe, 1 of 7 towns have a higher median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fingringhoe | 340 | — | 52.1 | 26% | 26% |
| Langenhoe and Abberton | 1,010 | 1.1 mi | 53.4 | 31% | 22% |
| Rowhedge | 2,492 | 1.4 mi | 40.5 | 18% | 27% |
| Berechurch | 7,702 | 2 mi | 35.7 | 13% | 35% |
| Wivenhoe | 7,354 | 2.1 mi | 47.1 | 25% | 25% |
| Alresford | 2,462 | 3.1 mi | 46.2 | 27% | 26% |
| Layer-de-la-Haye | 1,338 | 3.2 mi | 49.1 | 26% | 31% |
| Colchester | 130,259 | 3.9 mi | 35.9 | 15% | 31% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in a lockdown, in term time. 21 March 2021 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “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 Fingringhoe’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 Fingringhoe’s residents
What is the population of Fingringhoe?
The 2021 Census counted 340 people in Fingringhoe’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Fingringhoe?
The median age was 52.1 at the 2021 Census. 13% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Fingringhoe?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across Essex’s towns. 5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Fingringhoe?
40% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 7.4% didn’t answer.
Is Fingringhoe good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Fingringhoe’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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