Photo: Richard Humphrey · CC BY-SA 2.0Old Hunstanton is older than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 60.6
13% of households have dependent children; across England’s towns the figure is 29%. Residents with no religion are rarer here than in 97% of UK towns. Old Hunstanton is home to 173 residents in 89 households, by the 2021 Census. In Old Hunstanton, three quarters of households live in a detached house.
In Old Hunstanton, 41% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
More residents are 70–74 than any other five-year age: 12% of residents, 2.6 times the share across England’s towns. Across Old Hunstanton, 4.7% of residents are aged 15 to 24. As a reference point, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
Residents who moved in within the year: 5.7%, a lower share than 98% of UK towns
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%.
Full-time students are rarer here than in 99% of UK towns. Against that, 11% of residents lived at another address a year earlier across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, a third of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 24% in routine work; in Old Hunstanton, 41% and 21%.
Old Hunstanton households average 2 people, smaller than in 99% 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.
Where 4.3% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across England’s towns, Old Hunstanton has 2.3%. More one-person households than in 72% of UK towns: 33%.
Fewer households without a car or van than 97% of UK towns: 6%
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 23% across England’s towns, 2.3% of households live in a flat or apartment here. On households in terraced houses, Old Hunstanton sits lower than 85% of UK towns: 11%. Elsewhere, 24% of households have no car or van across England’s towns.
A higher share of residents whose main language is English than 99% of UK towns, at 100%
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 Africa (1.7%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (1.7%). Residents born outside the UK are rarer here than in 68% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, residents whose main language is English come to 90%.
98% of residents describe themselves as White British, more than in 99% 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: 98% of Old Hunstanton · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 70% in Old Hunstanton and 46% across England’s towns. Across England’s towns, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British.
Only 20% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership in Old Hunstanton
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 share of married adults and civil partners tops 92% of UK towns: 56%. 7.8% of residents give unpaid care, a lower share than in 87% of UK towns. Across England’s towns, the share of adults who have never married is 39%. For 7 residents, unpaid care runs to 50 hours or more a week.
35% of adults have qualifications at degree level
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 35% of adults in Old Hunstanton (England’s towns: 34%), and no qualification by 12% (England’s towns: 18%).
Old Hunstanton and its 4 nearest towns: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Hunstanton | 173 | — | 60.6 | 41% | 13% |
| Hunstanton | 4,230 | 1.4 mi | 61.3 | 44% | 12% |
| Heacham | 3,978 | 3.3 mi | 60.1 | 43% | 13% |
| Snettisham | 2,709 | 5.3 mi | 59.1 | 41% | 17% |
| Dersingham | 4,753 | 7.4 mi | 58.6 | 41% | 17% |
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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 Old Hunstanton’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 Old Hunstanton’s residents
What is the population of Old Hunstanton?
The 2021 Census counted 173 people in Old Hunstanton’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Old Hunstanton?
The median age was 60.6 at the 2021 Census. 4.7% of residents were 15 to 24 and 41% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Old Hunstanton?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 4.6% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Old Hunstanton?
26% said they had no religion and 70% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.6% didn’t answer.
Is Old Hunstanton good for families?
13% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Old Hunstanton’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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