Photo: Roger W Haworth · CC BY-SA 2.0Older than 93% of UK towns: half of Weeley Heath is over 52.4
Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%; Weeley Heath has 5.4%. The 2021 Census put the village’s population at 951, in 408 households. For Weeley Heath, the census puts households in flats at 1%. The village has fewer one-person households than 95% of UK towns, at 22%.
Fewer young people than 87% of UK towns: 8.4% are 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
28% of residents are 65 or over; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer full-time students than 84% of UK towns: 4%
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%.
Nearly a third of Weeley Heath’s adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents who moved in within the year are common here: 11%, more than in just over four fifths of UK towns. Across England’s towns, 7.9% of adults are full-time students.
Weeley Heath ranks below 93% of UK towns on households with dependent children: 21%
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 average household has 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults: 4.2% of the total. The usual figure: 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Households in detached houses: 71%, a higher share than 99% 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
The share of households without a car or van trails 94% of UK towns: 7.4%. Elsewhere, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
In Weeley Heath, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 88% 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%
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
4.4% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. Set beside that, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.8%) or in Africa (1.2%).
In Weeley Heath, 95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 76% 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: 95% of Weeley Heath · Essex’s towns 83% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (1.9%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and African (0.6%). Typically, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. Weeley Heath has more residents who describe themselves as Christian than just over two thirds of UK towns, at 53%. Compared with 37% across England’s towns, just over two in five residents said they have no religion here.
Married adults and civil partners make up 57% in Weeley Heath, more than in 93% 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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 26. The comparison figure for married adults and civil partners is 44% across England’s towns. 27% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, fewer than in 85% of UK towns. Still, the share of unpaid carers is 11%, against 8.7% across England’s towns.
22% of adults are qualified to degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 22% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 20% hold no qualification (18%).
Median age: 2 of the 7 towns around Weeley Heath are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeley Heath | 951 | — | 52.4 | 28% | 21% |
| Weeley | 1,285 | 0.8 mi | 52 | 31% | 22% |
| Little Clacton | 2,458 | 1.5 mi | 54 | 33% | 22% |
| Thorpe-le-Soken | 1,590 | 2.2 mi | 46.8 | 24% | 27% |
| Great Bentley | 1,746 | 2.4 mi | 48.4 | 26% | 25% |
| Clacton-on-Sea | 53,190 | 3.4 mi | 50.4 | 30% | 22% |
| Thorrington | 1,427 | 3.5 mi | 52.1 | 31% | 25% |
| St Osyth | 2,249 | 3.5 mi | 53.5 | 33% | 20% |
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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 Weeley Heath’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 Weeley Heath’s residents
What is the population of Weeley Heath?
The 2021 Census counted 951 people in Weeley Heath’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Weeley Heath?
The median age was 52.4 at the 2021 Census. 8.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Weeley Heath?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 83% across Essex’s towns. 4.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Weeley Heath?
42% said they had no religion and 53% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.7% didn’t answer.
Is Weeley Heath good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Weeley Heath’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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