Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0One-person households make up 18% in Foxley, less than in 99% of UK towns
By its share of households in terraced houses (4.3%), Foxley is below 98% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 349 residents and 141 households in the village. Residents aged 65 and over account for 28%. Compared with other places, married adults and civil partners are common here: 59%, more than in 97% of UK towns.
Half of Foxley is over 50.9, older than 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Residents aged 15 to 24: a tenth of the total. In Hunstanton, the oldest of Norfolk’s towns by this measure, it is 44%.
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.
A lower share of full-time students than 91% of UK towns, at 3.7%
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 Foxley, 32% of adults work in managerial and professional jobs and 23% in routine and semi-routine work, against 33% and 24% across England’s towns. Measured more widely, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns. Across Foxley, just over one in ten residents lived at another address a year earlier.
Larger households than 93% of UK towns: 2.5 people on average
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: 2.1% here and 4.3% across England’s towns. Across Foxley, just over a quarter of households have dependent children.
A higher share of households in detached houses than 98% of UK towns, at 65%
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 without a car or van is 6.5%, against 24% across England’s towns. What’s more, households in flats are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Across the comparison, 21% of households live in a detached house across England’s towns.
3.4% born outside the UK, fewer than in 85% 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
By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the Middle East and Asia (1.2%) and in Africa (1.2%). Typically, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Few places have as many residents whose main language is English: 99% here, more than in 91% of UK towns.
Residents who describe themselves as Christian: 41%, a lower share than 91% 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: 96% of Foxley · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
96% of residents describe themselves as White British, against 88% across Norfolk’s towns and 73% across England’s towns. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are common here: 42%, more than in nearly three fifths of UK towns. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. The groups that follow White British are Indian (1.4%), Other White (0.9%) and Pakistani (0.6%).
12% of residents give unpaid care, a share 95% of UK towns don’t reach
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
By its share of adults who have never married (25%), Foxley is below 91% of UK towns. For unpaid carers, the comparison across England’s towns is 8.7%. 10 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week.
A degree-level qualification for 23% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
17% of Foxley’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 23% have one at degree level (34%).
Foxley and its 7 nearest towns: 3 of them are older
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foxley | 349 | — | 50.9 | 28% | 26% |
| Foulsham | 1,025 | 1.9 mi | 48.5 | 23% | 23% |
| Swanton Morley | 2,175 | 3 mi | 41.5 | 24% | 28% |
| North Elmham | 1,172 | 3.1 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 22% |
| Reepham | 2,317 | 4.1 mi | 51.4 | 30% | 24% |
| Dereham | 20,788 | 6.2 mi | 44.7 | 24% | 27% |
| Cawston | 1,114 | 6.3 mi | 47.8 | 23% | 26% |
| Mattishall | 2,203 | 6.6 mi | 51.9 | 31% | 19% |
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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 Foxley’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 Foxley’s residents
What is the population of Foxley?
The 2021 Census counted 349 people in Foxley’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Foxley?
The median age was 50.9 at the 2021 Census. 9.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Foxley?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Foxley?
42% said they had no religion and 41% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 3.2% were Muslim and 13% didn’t answer.
Is Foxley good for families?
26% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Foxley’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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