Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer family households than 96% of UK towns: 19% in Ditchingham
Compared with 4.3% across England’s towns, 1.4% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home here. Higher than in four fifths of UK towns: 95% of residents describe themselves as White British. In 2021, the Census found 1,997 residents in Ditchingham, living in 913 households. Households in flats: 5.8% of the total.
What the Census says about Ditchingham’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Ditchingham’s residents are under 51.2 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).
Older than 90% of UK towns: half of Ditchingham is over 51.2
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 70–74: 9.6% of residents, 2 times the share across England’s towns. Census figures put residents aged 65 and over at 31% in Ditchingham. Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24, a lower share than in 73% of UK towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Ditchingham ranks below 90% of UK towns on full-time students: 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%.
Across England’s towns, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier; in Ditchingham, 8.3%. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Ditchingham households average 2.2 people, smaller than in 85% of UK towns
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.
One-person households account for 30%.
In Ditchingham, 41% of households live in a detached house, more than in 78% of UK towns
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
24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns, against 11% in Ditchingham. More households in terraced houses than in 73% of UK towns: 26%. As a yardstick, just over a fifth of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
99% of residents have English as their main language, a share 78% of UK towns don’t reach
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 (2.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (1.5%). Set beside that, 90% of residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. On residents born outside the UK, Ditchingham sits lower than nearly two thirds of UK towns: 4.9%.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as Christian than 64% of UK towns: 52%
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 Ditchingham · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Behind White British, the largest groups are Other White (2.1%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Indian (0.3%). Few places have as many residents with no religion: 41% here, more than in 52% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Ditchingham ranks above 69% of UK towns on married adults and civil partners: 51%
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
For 57 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week. Across England’s towns, the share of married adults and civil partners is 44%. Fewer adults who have never married than in nearly two thirds of UK towns: 30%. Unpaid carers make up 8.8%, close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 25% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications cover 25% of adults in Ditchingham, 34% across England’s towns; 22% have no qualification, against 18%.
Among its 7 nearest neighbours, 1 are older than Ditchingham
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
- “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 Ditchingham’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 Ditchingham’s residents
What is the population of Ditchingham?
The 2021 Census counted 1,997 people in Ditchingham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Ditchingham?
The median age was 51.2 at the 2021 Census. 9.1% of residents were 15 to 24 and 31% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Ditchingham?
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 Ditchingham?
41% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.6% didn’t answer.
Is Ditchingham good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Ditchingham’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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.