Photo: Peter Walker · CC BY-SA 2.01.5% of households live in a terraced house, below 99% of UK towns
21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns, against 73% in Cuffley. At 60%, the share of married adults and civil partners is higher than in 98% of UK towns. The 2021 Census put the town’s population at 4,350, in 1,712 households. One-person households account for 23%.
Older than 79% of UK towns: half of Cuffley is over 48.9
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here just over a quarter of residents are 65 or over, where the figure across England’s towns is 18%. The census found that one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24 in Cuffley.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Cuffley, 48.9. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 5.7%, a higher share than 80% 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%.
Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Cuffley has 44% and 12%. Nearly one in ten residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. Typically, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Cuffley households average 2.6 people, larger than in 94% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Hertfordshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
At 3.5%, shared households of unrelated adults sit close to the figure across England’s towns. Across Cuffley, 28% of households have dependent children.
Cuffley sits below 92% of UK towns for households without a car or van (8%)
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
23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns, against 13% in Cuffley. Typically, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
Above 85% of UK towns: 14% of residents were born outside the UK
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
Here 96% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%. Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (6%) and in Africa (2.7%).
Fewer residents with no religion than 97% of UK towns: 26%
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: 71% of Cuffley · Hertfordshire’s towns 71% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Here 71% of residents describe themselves as White British, where the figure across England’s towns is 73%. Residents with no religion: 37% across England’s towns, for comparison. The share of residents who describe themselves as Christian stands at 59%.
Fewer adults who have never married than 90% of UK towns: 26%
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
86 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Across England’s towns, adults who have never married come to 39%. Nothing unusual on unpaid carers: 9.3%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
38% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 38% of its adults qualified to degree level, Cuffley compares with 34% across England’s towns; another 15% hold no qualification (18%).
223rd highest median age among 695 UK towns of 3,000 to 6,000
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Bailrigg (18.9), the youngest, and Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe (64.7), the oldest. Nearest to Cuffley in age: Shevington (48.9), Farnsfield (48.9), Sonning Common (48.9) and Hextable (48.9).
No nearby town is as old as Cuffley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cuffley | 4,350 | — | 48.9 | 26% | 28% |
| Goff's Oak | 3,503 | 1.1 mi | 48.6 | 25% | 27% |
| Cheshunt | 43,694 | 3 mi | 40.4 | 17% | 32% |
| Potters Bar | 23,394 | 3.2 mi | 44.1 | 22% | 29% |
| Brookmans Park | 4,033 | 3.2 mi | 45 | 21% | 32% |
| Waltham Cross | 11,936 | 4.1 mi | 36.4 | 13% | 33% |
| Welham Green | 2,962 | 4.5 mi | 45.6 | 21% | 25% |
| Enfield | 329,822 | 5.2 mi | 37.5 | 14% | 38% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
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.
- “Hertfordshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Hertfordshire (or England), summed the same way as Cuffley’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 Cuffley’s residents
What is the population of Cuffley?
The 2021 Census counted 4,350 people in Cuffley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Cuffley?
The median age was 48.9 at the 2021 Census, older than 79% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Cuffley?
71% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 71% across Hertfordshire’s towns. 14% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Cuffley?
26% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 3.1% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is Cuffley good for families?
28% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Cuffley’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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