Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0Grimston is older than 95% of UK towns: a median age of 53.8
Detached houses are home to nearly three in five households, against 21% across England’s towns. 0.7% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 99% of UK towns. The 2021 Census counted 642 residents in 306 households. On the census count, 20% of households have dependent children.
Grimston sits below 99% of UK towns for residents aged 15 to 24 (5.7%)
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The largest age band is 70–74: nearly one in ten residents, 1.9 times the share across England’s towns. Here, a third of residents are 65 or over. Against that, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A lower share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns, at 1.5%
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%.
In Grimston, 6.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, beside 11% across England’s towns. Full-time students make up 7.9% across England’s towns.
Smaller households than 92% of UK towns: 2.1 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.
Where 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, Grimston has 1.6%. Here, 31% of households are one person living alone.
6.9% of households have no car or van, below 95% 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
Against a figure of 24% across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses in Grimston comes in at 11%. One household in 14 has no car or van.
Residents whose main language is English make up 100% in Grimston, 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
In Grimston, 3.6% of residents were born outside the UK, beside 18% across England’s towns. As a yardstick, nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. By birthplace, the largest groups from abroad were born in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (2%) and in EU countries (1.2%).
58% of residents describe themselves as Christian, a share 90% of UK towns don’t reach
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 Grimston · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Grimston sits close to the norm on residents with no religion: 37%, about the same as across England’s towns. As a yardstick, 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns. Across Grimston, 96% of residents describe themselves as White British.
24% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 96% of UK towns
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
The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 22. Married adults and civil partners are more common here than in 91% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 39% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across England’s towns. At 9.5%, unpaid carers sit close to the figure across England’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 30% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
17% of Grimston’s adults have no qualification (18% across England’s towns), and 30% have one at degree level (34%).
Nearby, 2 of 7 towns have older populations than Grimston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimston | 642 | — | 53.8 | 33% | 20% |
| Gayton | 1,522 | 2 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 27% |
| King's Lynn | 47,604 | 5.4 mi | 39.3 | 18% | 30% |
| Dersingham | 4,753 | 5.5 mi | 58.6 | 41% | 17% |
| Narborough | 1,362 | 6.3 mi | 50.7 | 30% | 23% |
| West Winch | 2,828 | 7 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 26% |
| Snettisham | 2,709 | 7.5 mi | 59.1 | 41% | 17% |
| Marham | 2,608 | 7.9 mi | 30.1 | 9.8% | 39% |
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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 Grimston’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 Grimston’s residents
What is the population of Grimston?
The 2021 Census counted 642 people in Grimston’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Grimston?
The median age was 53.8 at the 2021 Census. 5.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 33% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Grimston?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Grimston?
37% said they had no religion and 58% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.2% were Muslim and 4.8% didn’t answer.
Is Grimston good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Grimston’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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