Photo: Robin Stott · CC BY-SA 2.0Half of Blakeney is over 64.5, older than 99% of UK towns
29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns, against 11% in Blakeney. Few places have so few residents with no religion: 32% here, fewer than in 90% of UK towns. The village is home to 556 residents in 298 households, by the 2021 Census. Adults who have never married account for 19%.
Residents aged 65 and over make up 49% in Blakeney, more than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 3.2%, below 99% of UK towns. Set beside that, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Below 99% of UK towns: 1.6% of adults are full-time students
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%.
In Blakeney, 4.9% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, beside 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students: 7.9% across England’s towns, for comparison.
A larger share of one-person households than 99% of UK towns: 43%
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.
Shared households of unrelated adults: 1.7% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. The comparison figure for one-person households is 30% across England’s towns.
Fewer households in flats than 93% of UK towns: 3.1%
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: 50%, above 89% of UK towns. Across the comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns. On the census count, 14% of households live in a terraced house. 18% of households have no car or van, more than in 66% of UK towns.
In Blakeney, 99% of residents have English as their main language, more than in 98% 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
The largest groups were born in EU countries (2%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.3%). As a yardstick, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Residents born outside the UK make up 5.8%, against 18% across England’s towns.
Above 94% of UK towns: 60% of residents describe themselves as Christian
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: 96% of Blakeney · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
96% of residents describe themselves as White British (England’s towns: 73%). For comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
A higher share of married adults and civil partners than 80% of UK towns, at 53%
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
10 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%. At 11%, the share of unpaid carers is higher than in 84% of UK towns.
37% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
37% of Blakeney’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 18% have none (18%).
Every nearby town is younger than Blakeney
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blakeney | 556 | — | 64.5 | 49% | 11% |
| Holt | 4,014 | 4.5 mi | 57.5 | 40% | 15% |
| Melton Constable | 1,176 | 6.6 mi | 42.8 | 20% | 27% |
| Wells-next-the-Sea | 2,151 | 6.9 mi | 58.5 | 39% | 16% |
| Briston | 1,983 | 7.1 mi | 51.7 | 31% | 22% |
| Sheringham | 7,087 | 8 mi | 59.3 | 40% | 17% |
| West Runton and Beeston Regis | 1,463 | 8.7 mi | 63.3 | 47% | 11% |
| Fakenham | 8,390 | 10.6 mi | 49.4 | 29% | 21% |
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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 Blakeney’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 Blakeney’s residents
What is the population of Blakeney?
The 2021 Census counted 556 people in Blakeney’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Blakeney?
The median age was 64.5 at the 2021 Census. 3.2% of residents were 15 to 24 and 49% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Blakeney?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 5.8% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Blakeney?
32% said they had no religion and 60% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Blakeney good for families?
11% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Blakeney’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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