Photo: Nigel Thompson · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 56.4: Damgate is older than 98% of UK towns
Against a figure of 29% across England’s towns, the share of households with dependent children in Damgate comes in at 21%. Households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. At the 2021 Census Damgate was home to 287 people in 126 households. 8.7% of households have no car or van.
More residents aged 65 and over than 97% of UK towns: 35%
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Here 8% of residents are aged 15 to 24, where the figure across England’s towns is 12%. By way of comparison, 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.
Damgate sits below 99% of UK towns for full-time students (2.9%)
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, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine or semi-routine work; Damgate has 40% and 23%. As a yardstick, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. 1.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home, a share 92% of UK towns don’t reach
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 2.3 people, against 2.4 across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults make up 4.3% across England’s towns. 30% of households are one person living alone.
Damgate ranks above 85% of UK towns on households in detached houses: 46%
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
Compared with 24% across England’s towns, 13% of households live in a terraced house here. The benchmark for households in detached houses across England’s towns: 21%.
Damgate: 100% of residents have English as their main language, above 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
4.9% of residents were born outside the UK; across England’s towns the figure is 18%. The two biggest birthplaces abroad are in the Middle East and Asia (1.7%) and in EU countries (1.4%). On average, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns.
95% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 82% 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: 95% of Damgate · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion: 37%, near enough the figure across England’s towns. Census figures put residents who describe themselves as Christian at 54% in Damgate. The benchmark for residents who describe themselves as White British across England’s towns: 73%.
More unpaid carers than 93% of UK towns: 12%
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 care takes 50 hours a week or more for 6 people. Compared with other places, adults who have never married are scarce here: 25%, fewer than in 93% of UK towns. Typically, nearly one in ten residents give unpaid care across England’s towns. 52% of adults are married or in a civil partnership, against 44% across England’s towns.
Among adults, 32% hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Damgate’s adults: 32% with a degree-level qualification and 16% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Damgate is older than every town around it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damgate | 287 | — | 56.4 | 35% | 21% |
| Acle | 2,268 | 0.6 mi | 54 | 34% | 18% |
| Lingwood | 2,368 | 2.6 mi | 48.4 | 27% | 25% |
| Freethorpe | 1,050 | 3.1 mi | 41.5 | 19% | 33% |
| Blofield | 2,667 | 4.3 mi | 45.3 | 25% | 29% |
| Blofield Heath | 1,430 | 4.7 mi | 54.4 | 33% | 23% |
| Brundall | 4,378 | 4.9 mi | 51 | 30% | 24% |
| Little Plumstead | 1,915 | 5.7 mi | 37.5 | 16% | 36% |
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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 Damgate’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 Damgate’s residents
What is the population of Damgate?
The 2021 Census counted 287 people in Damgate’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Damgate?
The median age was 56.4 at the 2021 Census. 8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 35% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Damgate?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 4.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Damgate?
37% said they had no religion and 54% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 1.1% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Damgate good for families?
21% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Damgate’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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