Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Snettisham is older than 99% of UK towns: a median age of 59.1
Here a quarter of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, where the figure across England’s towns is 39%. Households with dependent children account for 17%. Fewer households in flats than in 85% of UK towns: 4.6%. At the 2021 Census, 2,709 people lived in Snettisham, in 1,305 households.
What the Census says about Snettisham’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Snettisham’s residents are under 59.1 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 41% are 65 or over, against 18% across England’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: ONS Census 2021 (output areas summed to the 2022 built-up area).
Snettisham: 41% of residents are 65 or over, above 99% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2021.
Compared with 12% across England’s towns, 6.8% of residents are aged 15 to 24 here. On average, 18% of residents are 65 or over across England’s towns.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Snettisham, 59.1. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 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.
Snettisham ranks below 97% of UK towns on full-time students: 3.3%
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%.
By class, 28% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 27% in routine and semi-routine work (England’s towns: 33% and 24%). Nearly one in ten residents had moved in within the year before the Census, fewer than the 11% across England’s towns. Against that, 7.9% of adults are full-time students across England’s towns.
Snettisham households average 2.1 people, smaller than in 96% 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.
In Snettisham, just over a third of households are one person living alone, beside 30% across England’s towns. At the same time, fewer shared households of unrelated adults than in 66% of UK towns: 2.1%.
Households in detached houses: 47%, a higher share than 86% 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
Where 24% of households live in a terraced house across England’s towns, Snettisham has 13%. Still, 4.6% of households live in a flat, less than in 85% of UK towns; 47% in a detached house, against 21% across England’s towns. Across Snettisham, 14% of households have no car or van.
Residents whose main language is English make up 99% in Snettisham, more than in 97% 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
Among residents born abroad, the largest groups were born in EU countries (1.6%) and in the Americas, Oceania and elsewhere (0.8%). The wider picture: nine in ten residents have English as their main language across England’s towns. Fewer residents born outside the UK than in 87% of UK towns: 3.3%.
Snettisham: 97% of residents describe themselves as White British, above 94% 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: 97% of Snettisham · Norfolk’s towns 88% · England’s towns 73%.
Religion · all residents
The largest groups after White British are Other White (1.8%), Mixed or multiple (1.1%) and Caribbean (0.1%). As a yardstick, 73% of residents describe themselves as White British across England’s towns. At 59%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is higher than in 93% of UK towns. Meanwhile, across England’s towns, 37% of residents said they have no religion; in Snettisham, 35%.
Married adults and civil partners make up 53% in Snettisham, more than in 78% 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
Unpaid carers giving 50 hours or more a week: 102. The share of married adults and civil partners across England’s towns is 44%. More unpaid carers than in 81% of UK towns: 11%.
Adults qualified to degree level or above: 23%
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2021.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Snettisham’s adults: 23% with a degree-level qualification and 25% with none, against 34% and 18% across England’s towns.
514 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000 people: this is the 10th oldest
Median age, Census 2021. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Keele (20.6), the youngest, and West Chiltington (63.1), the oldest. Nearest to Snettisham in age: Mundesley (58.7), Saundersfoot (58.7), Pevensey Bay (59.1) and Dymchurch (59.2).
Of the 7 towns nearest Snettisham, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snettisham | 2,709 | — | 59.1 | 41% | 17% |
| Dersingham | 4,753 | 2.1 mi | 58.6 | 41% | 17% |
| Heacham | 3,978 | 2.2 mi | 60.1 | 43% | 13% |
| Hunstanton | 4,230 | 4.1 mi | 61.3 | 44% | 12% |
| King's Lynn | 47,604 | 8.7 mi | 39.3 | 18% | 30% |
| Gayton | 1,522 | 9.5 mi | 47.2 | 24% | 27% |
| Clenchwarton | 2,020 | 10.3 mi | 53.5 | 32% | 22% |
| West Winch | 2,828 | 11.7 mi | 50.6 | 28% | 26% |
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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 Snettisham’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 Snettisham’s residents
What is the population of Snettisham?
The 2021 Census counted 2,709 people in Snettisham’s built-up area.
What is the average age in Snettisham?
The median age was 59.1 at the 2021 Census, older than 99% of UK towns. 6.8% of residents were 15 to 24 and 41% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Snettisham?
97% of residents described themselves as White British in 2021, against 73% across England’s towns and 88% across Norfolk’s towns. 3.3% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Snettisham?
35% said they had no religion and 59% that they were Christian at the 2021 Census; 0% were Muslim and 5.5% didn’t answer.
Is Snettisham good for families?
17% of households had dependent children in 2021, against 29% across England’s towns. Schools are on Snettisham’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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