Photo: Dave Hitchborne · CC BY-SA 2.0Surfleet is older than 95% of UK towns: a median age of 53.8
The share of adults who have never married trails 99% of UK towns: 22%. The census found that just over a fifth of households have dependent children in Surfleet. 24% of households are one person living alone, a lower share than in 89% of UK towns. The village counted 1,042 residents and 466 households at the 2021 Census.
What the Census says about Surfleet’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Surfleet’s residents are under 53.8 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 31% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Surfleet: 31% of residents are 65 or over, above 93% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Where 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns, Surfleet has 8%. The usual figure: 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 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.
Fewer full-time students than 90% of UK towns: 3.8%
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%.
Managerial and professional jobs take in 30% of adults here, routine and semi-routine work 24% (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). For Surfleet, the census puts residents who moved in within the year at 11%. On average, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
A higher share of shared households of unrelated adults than 81% of UK towns, at 3.2%
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Lincolnshire’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
In Surfleet the average household is 2.3 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. The wider picture: 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns.
Surfleet sits above 99% of UK towns for households in detached houses (74%)
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 without a car or van make up 7.6%, against 24% across England’s towns. For comparison, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns. 2% of households live in a flat or apartment. At 3.3%, the share of households in terraced houses is lower than in 99% of UK towns.
A higher share of residents born outside the UK than 67% of UK towns, at 8.5%
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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (5.4%) and in Africa (1.2%). Few places have so few residents whose main language is English: 96% here, fewer than in 71% of UK towns. Elsewhere, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns.
More residents who describe themselves as Christian than 98% of UK towns: 64%
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 Surfleet · Lincolnshire’s towns 89% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
32% of residents said they have no religion, against 37% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian. After White British, the most common groups are Other White (5.1%), African (1.3%) and Mixed or multiple (1%).
Surfleet: 56% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, above 91% 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: 31. At 8.3%, the share of unpaid carers is lower than in 78% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%.
Degree-level qualifications reach 24% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
24% of Surfleet’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 20% have none (18%).
No nearby town is as old as Surfleet
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
- “Lincolnshire’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Lincolnshire (or England), summed the same way as Surfleet’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 Surfleet’s residents
What is the population of Surfleet?
The 2021 Census counted 1,042 people in Surfleet’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Surfleet?
The median age was 53.8 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Surfleet?
92% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 89% across Lincolnshire’s towns. 8.5% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Surfleet?
32% said they had no religion and 64% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 3.3% didn’t answer.
Is Surfleet good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Surfleet’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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