Photo: Richard Humphrey · CC BY-SA 2.0A median age of 51.8: Pott Row is older than 91% of UK towns
Across England’s towns, the share of households in terraced houses is 24%; Pott Row has 5.4%. Compared with other places, residents who describe themselves as White British are common here: 98%, more than in 99% of UK towns. The village is home to 803 residents in 354 households, by the 2021 Census. Locally, 12% of residents give unpaid care.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 8.3% in Pott Row, less than in 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across England’s towns. More residents aged 65 and over than in nearly four fifths of UK towns: 27%. Across England’s towns, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 90 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 smaller share of full-time students than 80% of UK towns: 4.1%
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%.
The share of residents who moved in within the year is 7.1%, against 11% across England’s towns. By way of comparison, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
23% of households are one person living alone, below 94% 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.
The share of households with dependent children is 25%, against 29% across England’s towns. Shared households of unrelated adults: 2.3% of the total. One-person households: 30% across England’s towns, for comparison.
Fewer households in flats than 99% of UK towns: 1.1%
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
Here 9.7% of households have no car or van, where the figure across England’s towns is 24%. The census found that 54% of households live in a detached house in Pott Row. Across the comparison, nearly a quarter of households live in a flat or apartment across England’s towns.
Only 2.9% of Pott Row’s residents were born outside the UK
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
Across England’s towns, nine in ten residents have English as their main language; in Pott Row, 99%. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (1.9%) or in the Middle East and Asia (0.4%). The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 18% across England’s towns.
52% of residents describe themselves as Christian, more than in 65% 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 Pott Row · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
Residents with no religion make up 42%, against 37% across England’s towns. The wider picture: 46% of residents describe themselves as Christian across England’s towns.
Married adults and civil partners: 53%, a higher share than 80% 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
23 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. Adults who have never married are rarer here than in 78% of UK towns. The benchmark for married adults and civil partners across England’s towns: 44%.
Adults with a degree-level qualification: 20%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Pott Row’s adults: 20% with a degree-level qualification and 18% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
Pott Row 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pott Row | 803 | — | 51.8 | 27% | 25% |
| Gayton | 1,522 | 2.4 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 27% |
| King's Lynn | 47,604 | 4.4 mi | 39.3 | 18% | 30% |
| Dersingham | 4,753 | 5.2 mi | 58.6 | 41% | 17% |
| West Winch | 2,828 | 6.2 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 26% |
| Narborough | 1,362 | 6.7 mi | 50.7 | 30% | 23% |
| Snettisham | 2,709 | 7.2 mi | 59.1 | 41% | 17% |
| Clenchwarton | 2,020 | 7.3 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 22% |
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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 Pott Row’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 Pott Row’s residents
What is the population of Pott Row?
The 2021 Census counted 803 people in Pott Row’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Pott Row?
The median age was 51.8 at the 2021 Census. 8.3% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Pott Row?
98% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 2.9% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Pott Row?
42% said they had no religion and 52% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 4.9% didn’t answer.
Is Pott Row good for families?
25% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Pott Row’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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