Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Aldborough is over 53.7, older than 95% of UK towns
Households in detached houses: 45%, above 85% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census, 608 people lived in Aldborough, in 277 households. Across Aldborough, 98% of residents describe themselves as White British. Compared with other places, households in flats are scarce here: 1.1%, fewer than in 99% of UK towns.
Aldborough sits below 99% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (6.7%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: 9.7% of residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 33% in Aldborough.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 104 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Fewer residents who moved in within the year than 99% of UK towns: 5.5%
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%.
Full-time students: 4.6%, below 58% of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents who moved in within the year is 11% across England’s towns.
Below 83% of UK towns: 23% of households have dependent children
Household make-up at the 2021 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Norfolk’s towns and England’s towns
People per household
England’s towns.
The typical household size is 2.2 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Typically, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns. For Aldborough, the census puts shared households of unrelated adults at 1.8%. Few places have so few one-person households: 30% here, fewer than in 52% of UK towns.
A smaller share of households without a car or van than 83% of UK towns: 9.8%
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
The share of households in terraced houses is 25%, against 24% across England’s towns. Meanwhile, every 10th household or so has no car or van.
In Aldborough, 100% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 99% 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
Born outside the UK: 3.8% of residents, against 18% across England’s towns. The benchmark for residents whose main language is English across England’s towns: 90%. The largest groups were born in Africa (1.5%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1%).
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 51%, a higher share than 60% 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: 98% of Aldborough · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Across Aldborough, just over two in five residents said they have no religion. The usual figure: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Aldborough sits below 94% of UK towns for adults who have never married (24%)
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
15 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. To put it in context, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. More married adults and civil partners than in 91% of UK towns: 56%. Unpaid carers are about as common here as across England’s towns: 9.4%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 30%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
30% of Aldborough’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have none (18%).
Aldborough sits below 4 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldborough | 608 | — | 53.7 | 33% | 23% |
| Aylsham | 7,183 | 4.8 mi | 49.9 | 31% | 25% |
| Cromer | 7,522 | 5 mi | 56.2 | 37% | 16% |
| West Runton and Beeston Regis | 1,463 | 5.2 mi | 63.3 | 47% | 11% |
| Sheringham | 7,087 | 5.6 mi | 59.3 | 40% | 17% |
| North Walsham | 12,829 | 6.6 mi | 50.2 | 29% | 21% |
| Holt | 4,014 | 6.9 mi | 57.5 | 40% | 15% |
| Cawston | 1,114 | 7.2 mi | 47.8 | 23% | 26% |
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What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Norfolk’s towns” and “England’s towns” mean their built-up areas. Census comparisons pool every built-up area in Norfolk (or England), summed the same way as Aldborough’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 Aldborough’s residents
What is the population of Aldborough?
The 2021 Census counted 608 people in Aldborough’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Aldborough?
The median age was 53.7 at the 2021 Census. 6.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Aldborough?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Aldborough?
41% said they had no religion and 51% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 6.4% didn’t answer.
Is Aldborough good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Aldborough’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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