Photo: -- Immanuel Giel 08:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC) · Public domain7.4% of residents are aged 15 to 24, fewer than in 97% of UK towns
With households without a car or van at 7.8%, Sissinghurst is behind 92% of UK towns on that count. The village had 748 residents and 323 households at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 50.8. Here, just over three in five residents describe themselves as Christian. Higher than in 87% of UK towns: 55% of adults are married or in a civil partnership.
Sissinghurst is older than 89% of UK towns: a median age of 50.8
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 50–54 than any other five-year age: nearly one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 28% in Sissinghurst.
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.
Sissinghurst: 5.2% of adults are full-time students, above 66% 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%.
Against a figure of 11% across England’s towns, the share of residents who moved in within the year in Sissinghurst comes in at 12%. As a reference point, 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.
Only 27% of households are one person living alone in Sissinghurst
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Kent’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
Where 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, Sissinghurst has 2.5%. For comparison, 30% of households are one person living alone across England’s towns. There are 2.3 people in the average household. Lower than in 51% of UK towns: 27% of households have dependent children.
Fewer flats than 77% of UK towns: 6.2% of households
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
Households in detached houses: 38%, above 73% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 23% of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. The census found that a quarter of households live in a terraced house in Sissinghurst.
Above 88% of UK towns: 99% of residents have English as their main language
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
Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (2.9%), then in Africa (2.3%). To put it in context, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Sissinghurst has more residents born outside the UK than 62% of UK towns, at 7.8%.
Only 32% of residents said they have no religion in Sissinghurst
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: 93% of Sissinghurst · Kent’s towns 82% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British make up 93%, against 73% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 37% of residents said they have no religion across England’s towns. Next after White British come Other White (4.7%), Mixed or multiple (1.5%) and African (0.5%).
Fewer adults who have never married than 94% of UK towns: 25%
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
21 people care, unpaid, for 50 hours or more a week. Against that, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. Unpaid carers are more common here than in 51% of UK towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 37% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Against 34% across England’s towns, 37% of adults here have a degree-level qualification, while 15% hold no qualification (18%).
Every neighbour of Sissinghurst has a younger population
Nearby built-up areas coloured by median age, Census 2021. Tap a town for its page.
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.
- “Kent’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Kent (or England), summed the same way as Sissinghurst’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 Sissinghurst’s residents
What is the population of Sissinghurst?
The 2021 Census counted 748 people in Sissinghurst’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Sissinghurst?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2021 Census. 7.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Sissinghurst?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 82% across Kent’s towns. 7.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Sissinghurst?
32% said they had no religion and 61% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.1% didn’t answer.
Is Sissinghurst good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Sissinghurst’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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