Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.010% of households live in a terraced house, below 88% of UK towns
Where 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns, Tiptree has 27%. This Essex town counted 9,302 residents and 3,981 households at the 2021 Census. The share of adults who have never married stands at 28%. One-person households are rarer here than in 73% of UK towns.
A median age of 48: Tiptree is older than 74% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 12% across England’s towns. In Frinton-on-Sea, the oldest of Essex’s towns by this measure, it is 46%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Tiptree, 48. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
8.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, a share 53% of UK towns don’t reach
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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Tiptree, 31% and 25%. As a yardstick, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. The share of full-time students stands at 4.8%.
Only 25% of households in Tiptree have dependent children
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.1%, below 64% of UK towns. On average, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Households without a car or van make up 11% in Tiptree, less than in 74% 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
Against a figure of 23% across England’s towns, the share of households in flats in Tiptree comes in at 9.6%. Households without a car or van make up 24% across England’s towns. In Tiptree, 37% of households live in a detached house.
In Tiptree, 4.7% of residents were born outside the UK, fewer than in 68% 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
Born abroad and arrived since 2017: a tenth of that group, against 21% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. On the census count, 98% of residents have English as their main language.
A higher White British share than 64% of UK towns: 94% of residents
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: 94% of Tiptree · Essex’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian; in Tiptree, 52%. The wider picture: 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. The largest groups after White British are Other White (3.1%), Mixed or multiple (1.3%) and African (0.3%).
Above 76% of UK towns: 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership
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
232 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. The benchmark for married adults and civil partners across England’s towns: 44%. On unpaid carers, 9.1% here is much the same as across England’s towns.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 23%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 23% of adults in Tiptree, 34% across England’s towns; 20% have no qualification, against 18%.
94th highest median age among 413 UK towns of 7,000 to 13,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Tidworth is the youngest (28.4); Seaton the oldest (61). Nearest to Tiptree in age: Monmouth (47.9), Caerleon (47.9), Bollington (48.1) and Prestwood and Great Missenden (48.1).
A younger town than 5 of the 7 around it: Tiptree
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiptree | 9,302 | — | 48 | 27% | 25% |
| Tolleshunt Knights | 1,059 | 1.3 mi | 53.6 | 31% | 19% |
| Kelvedon and Feering | 4,771 | 2.5 mi | 46.1 | 23% | 28% |
| Great Totham | 2,773 | 3.7 mi | 48.8 | 27% | 29% |
| Wickham Bishops | 1,923 | 4 mi | 53.4 | 33% | 25% |
| Marks Tey | 1,817 | 4.3 mi | 48.3 | 24% | 28% |
| Copford | 1,794 | 4.8 mi | 44.8 | 22% | 27% |
| Coggeshall | 3,767 | 4.9 mi | 50.1 | 28% | 24% |
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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 Tiptree’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 Tiptree’s residents
What is the population of Tiptree?
The 2021 Census counted 9,302 people in Tiptree’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Tiptree?
The median age was 48 at the 2021 Census, older than 74% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Tiptree?
94% 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 Tiptree?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.4% were Muslim and 5.8% didn’t answer.
Is Tiptree good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Tiptree’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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