Photo: JohnArmagh · CC BY-SA 3.0Haddiscoe is older than 97% of UK towns: a median age of 55.4
Households without a car or van: 7.5% here and 24% across England’s towns. Haddiscoe had 350 residents in 162 households at the 2021 Census. For Haddiscoe, the census puts households in flats at 1.2%. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 98% of UK towns.
Only 6.5% of residents are aged 15 to 24 in Haddiscoe
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Set against 18% across England’s towns, 29% of residents are 65 or over in Haddiscoe. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
About 107 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
A smaller share of full-time students than 99% of UK towns: 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%.
With residents who moved in within the year at 5.5%, Haddiscoe is behind 99% of UK towns on that count. The benchmark for full-time students across England’s towns: 7.9%.
Below 99% of UK towns: 14% of households have dependent children
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.
A household here has 2.2 people on average; across England’s towns, 2.4. Here, just over a fifth of households are one person living alone. Typically, 29% of households have dependent children across England’s towns.
Haddiscoe: 60% of households live in a detached house, above 96% 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
Households in terraced houses: 14%, below 77% of UK towns. The comparison figure for households in detached houses is 21% across England’s towns.
A smaller share of residents born outside the UK than 89% of UK towns: 3.2%
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
Here 99% of residents have English as their main language, where the figure across England’s towns is 90%. Across the comparison, 18% of residents were born outside the UK across England’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.7%) or in the rest of Europe (0.6%).
In Haddiscoe, 55% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 81% 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 Haddiscoe · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Set against 37% across England’s towns, 38% of residents said they have no religion in Haddiscoe. Across England’s towns, residents who describe themselves as Christian come to 46%. Residents who describe themselves as White British: 95% of the total.
Only 25% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Haddiscoe
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 figure for unpaid carers is 11% in Haddiscoe and 8.7% across England’s towns. On married adults and civil partners, Haddiscoe sits higher than 92% of UK towns: 56%. Across England’s towns, nearly two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership. The number giving 50 or more hours of unpaid care a week is 7.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 31%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Across England’s towns, 18% of adults have no qualification; in Haddiscoe, 15%, while 31% hold one at degree level (34%).
No nearby town is as old as Haddiscoe
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haddiscoe | 350 | — | 55.4 | 29% | 14% |
| Thurlton | 1,145 | 2.1 mi | 49.4 | 24% | 27% |
| Belton | 3,603 | 4.4 mi | 47.5 | 26% | 26% |
| Beccles | 9,807 | 4.7 mi | 48.6 | 28% | 22% |
| Worlingham | 3,618 | 4.7 mi | 50.1 | 29% | 24% |
| Freethorpe | 1,050 | 5.3 mi | 41.5 | 19% | 33% |
| Loddon | 2,247 | 5.4 mi | 44.2 | 22% | 26% |
| Hopton on Sea | 2,575 | 5.4 mi | 51.3 | 28% | 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 Haddiscoe’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 Haddiscoe’s residents
What is the population of Haddiscoe?
The 2021 Census counted 350 people in Haddiscoe’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Haddiscoe?
The median age was 55.4 at the 2021 Census. 6.5% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Haddiscoe?
95% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Haddiscoe?
38% said they had no religion and 55% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0.3% were Muslim and 6.6% didn’t answer.
Is Haddiscoe good for families?
14% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Haddiscoe’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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