Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 56.1: Paradise is older than 97% of UK towns
Households in terraced houses: 1.1%, below 99% of UK towns. There were 91 households in Paradise at the 2021 Census, home to 203 residents. Census figures put households in detached houses at 76% in the village. Compared with other places, residents with no religion are scarce here: 33%, fewer than in 89% of UK towns.
29% of residents are 65 or over, more than in 87% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
No age band is larger than 55–59: 15% of residents, 2.3 times the share across England’s towns. To put it in context, 18% of residents are 65 or over 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.
4.3% of adults are full-time students, fewer than in 72% 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%.
Residents who moved in within the year make up 9.4%, against 11% across England’s towns. The usual figure: 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Paradise sits below 97% of UK towns for households with dependent children (18%)
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.
In Paradise the average household is 2.2 people, beside 2.4 across England’s towns. Here, 8.8% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home. Compared with other places, one-person households are scarce here: 30%, fewer than in 52% of UK towns. The benchmark for households with dependent children across England’s towns: 29%.
In Paradise, 2.2% of households live in a flat or apartment, fewer than in 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
7.7% of households have no car or van; across England’s towns the figure is 24%. The share of households in flats across England’s towns is 23%.
Paradise: 100% of residents have English as their main language, above 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
By its share of residents born outside the UK (5.4%), Paradise is below three fifths of UK towns. 100% of residents have English as their main language.
In Paradise, 62% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 97% 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 Paradise · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents who describe themselves as White British: 96%, above 83% of UK towns. The comparison figure for residents who describe themselves as Christian is 46% across England’s towns. The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (1.5%), African (1%) and Arab (1%).
Above 99% of UK towns: 19% of residents give unpaid care
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
With adults who have never married at 28%, Paradise is behind nearly four fifths of UK towns on that count. Across Paradise, 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership. The wider picture: 8.7% of residents give unpaid care across England’s towns.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 21%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
21% of Paradise’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 34% across England’s towns; 27% have none (18%).
No nearby town is as old as Paradise
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise | 203 | — | 56.1 | 29% | 18% |
| Elm and Emneth | 4,555 | 1.2 mi | 47.8 | 25% | 25% |
| Wisbech | 26,800 | 1.6 mi | 41.7 | 20% | 28% |
| Marshland St James | 1,025 | 2.2 mi | 49.6 | 27% | 24% |
| Friday Bridge | 1,411 | 2.8 mi | 51.8 | 31% | 20% |
| Leverington | 1,694 | 3.3 mi | 47.2 | 29% | 25% |
| Upwell and Outwell | 3,664 | 3.8 mi | 46.3 | 24% | 25% |
| Wisbech St Mary | 1,069 | 4.3 mi | 46.2 | 25% | 25% |
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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 Paradise’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 Paradise’s residents
What is the population of Paradise?
The 2021 Census counted 203 people in Paradise’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Paradise?
The median age was 56.1 at the 2021 Census. 9.4% of residents were 15 to 24 and 29% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Paradise?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 5.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Paradise?
33% said they had no religion and 62% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Paradise good for families?
18% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Paradise’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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